Qualla: Cuiheng https://qualla.com/cuiheng en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/x/cuiheng-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cuiheng https://qualla.com/cuiheng Cuiheng: Introduction https://qualla.com/cuiheng/ Photo credit Solatido, CC0. Twenty-six kilometers north of Macau, in the rolling farmland of Guangdong province, there is a village that produced a man who changed the shape of the world's most populous country. Cuiheng was a modest place when Sun Yat-sen was born here in the 1860s — about sixty households, ten surnames, and the kind of quiet agricultural life that the Qing Dynasty preferred its subjects to lead without complaint. The boy born in Cuiheng would spend the rest of his life violating that preference.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/x/cuiheng-wp/webx-cuiheng-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cuiheng: The Village Where It Began https://qualla.com/cuiheng/ Photo credit Uuongkinghe, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cuiheng was founded in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the Feng and Mai families. Over generations, the Yang and Lu families joined them, and the Lu surname eventually became the most numerous. By the time of Sun Yat-sen's birth in the 1860s, the village had roughly...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/x/cuiheng-wp/webx-cuiheng-the-village-where-it-began.mp3 0:06 2 full Cuiheng: The House Yat-sen Built https://qualla.com/cuiheng/ Photo credit Solatido, CC0. The ancestral home where Sun Yat-sen was actually born was dismantled by the Sun family in 1913. What stands today is the Former Residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen — a house he designed and built himself in 1892, when he returned to Cuiheng as a trained physician. It reflects his dual ...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/x/cuiheng-wp/webx-cuiheng-the-house-yat-sen-built.mp3 0:06 3 full Cuiheng: Between Zhongshan and Macau https://qualla.com/cuiheng/ Photo credit EditQ, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cuiheng sits 17.6 km southeast of downtown Zhongshan — a city renamed in Sun Yat-sen's honor after his death in 1925, its original name Xiangshan. The geography is significant: Cuiheng, Zhongshan, and Macau all once lay within the same administrative county. The Portuguese occupa...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/x/cuiheng-wp/webx-cuiheng-between-zhongshan-and-macau.mp3 0:06 4 full Cuiheng: A Village Designated, a Legacy Debated https://qualla.com/cuiheng/ Photo credit Solatido, CC0. Cuiheng today is more than a village. In 2013, it was upgraded to a 'New Area' — a designation that has brought development, infrastructure, and the particular tensions that come when a heritage site becomes an economic zone. The entire village is now a special economic district,...

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