An outstanding figure in Cuiheng Village.

As the saying goes, "Seven zhangs make a great man", Cuiheng Village is famous for the former residence of Sun Yat-sen, and nanlang town is also famous for Cuiheng Village at home and abroad. Besides Sun Yat-sen, there are many other celebrities in nanlang town. In the "Famous Places in Nanlang" presented to reporters by the head of the nanlang town Municipal Government, 82 celebrities who went out of Nanlang were recorded, including Lu, the first person who died for the * * * and the revolution, Yang Yin, the early leader of China * * *, Ruan, a generation of artists, Ou Chu from Wu to Wen, and so on.

There are so many celebrities that it is not difficult to visit them one by one in a short time. The local tour guide told reporters without hesitation that going to Zuobu Village is as famous as Cuiheng Village. Speaking of Zuobu Village, it is inextricably linked with Sun Yat-sen. Zuobu Village and Cuiheng Village are only a few miles apart. According to legend, at the end of Yuan Dynasty, when the 57th ancestor of Sun Shi moved to Zhongshan, his first stop was Zuobu Village. After that, the Sun Shi family flourished here until Sun Yat-sen's father moved their home to Cuiheng Village, a few miles away.

Cui Heng stayed to worship his ancestors after he was born. This is the local people's summary of Sun Yat-sen's life. In May, Sun Yat-sen and his wife, Lu, Tan, returned to Zuobu Village to visit their hometown folks and take a group photo at the ancestral hall. Today, these yellowed old photos are still treasured in the most conspicuous position in Sun Shrine: Dr. Sun Yat-sen is sitting in the middle with crutches, the village elders are sitting around, and the young people are standing in the back row.

Up to now, the old people in Zuobu Village can still talk about two or three incidents of Sun Yat-sen's rebellion as a teenager. As the destroyer of China's old traditions and the disseminator of new ideas, Sun Yat-sen's "misdeeds" in his childhood became the evidence of his youth. In fact, his thought change is not sudden, which is also the result of Xiangshan culture coming down in one continuous line for hundreds of years.

Some scholars put forward in the article Introduction to Xiangshan Culture that Xiangshan culture has not lost its fundamental characteristics of local culture and China traditional culture in the process of constantly absorbing foreign heterogeneous cultures. Although nearly a hundred years have passed in a blink of an eye, the traditional architectural culture of Xiangshan is rarely passed down in Nanlang today, but the spirit of sticking to orthodoxy and opening up and innovation, which led to the emergence of celebrities in modern history, has not died out in Zhongshan, but has become more and more prominent with the development of the times.

Today, several ancestral temples in Zuobu Village, like those in other villages in Zhongshan City, have continued for a long time, but they are still playing the role of uniting people and villagers. On the right wall of Sun Shrine, there are traces of newly pasted red paper, on which people's names and the number of gifts are recorded with a brush. Today's ancestral temple is not so fragrant, but it is still a place where people hold weddings, funerals, feasts and wine.