Gu Yingfen's former residence, in Guangwei Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, is a combination of Chinese and Western-style Republican architecture, and legend has it that after Chen Jiongming shelled the Presidential Palace, Dr. Sun Yat-sen moved from the White Goose Pool warship to live here. According to reports, the facade of the former residence was renovated.
Gu Yingfen's tomb, in Guangzhou's Shahe Dongkeng, was repaired in 1931, with a grand cemetery covering more than 2,700 sq m. In 1951, much of the cemetery was encroached upon by the Correctional Labor Institute, and since then the tomb has even been stolen.In 1987, after a strong effort by Gu Pang, the son of Gu Yingfen, the Guangzhou Municipal Government rebuilt the tomb, and made it a Guangzhou City Cultural Relics Protection Unit.
Of course, the Marshal's Mansion, located at 18 Dongsha Street, Textile Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, is also closely associated with Gou Yingfen, who was Sun Yat-sen's secretary and aide-de-camp here.
Today's South China Normal University also has some ties to Gu Yingfen. After Gu Yingfen's death, the Guangdong Provincial Government merged the Guangdong Industrial Specialized School and the Guangzhou Municipal Teachers' Training School into the Guangdong Provincial Carlisle University in 1934 to commemorate his death (Gu Yingfen was known by his first name Carl, and also by his second name Xiangqin). The Industrial College became the College of Engineering, the Municipal Teachers' Training School became the Teachers' Training College, and the Business School was added. 1937 saw the incorporation of the College of Engineering into the College of Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University, the Teachers' Training College became the Guangdong College of Arts and Sciences in 1940, and the Business School was renamed as the Guangdong Provincial Legislative College of Commerce in 1945, and the Guangdong Provincial College of Arts and Sciences was transformed into the South China Teachers' Training College (South China Teachers' Training University) in 1951. The tomb of Gu Yingfen is located at Tongsha Road, Tonghe Street (beside the fence of Guangzhou South China Medical Instrument Co.) The tomb was built in 1931 and was rebuilt by the municipal government in 1986. The cemetery is grand in scale, with a total area of 2,760 square meters. Cemetery from south to north are a pair of green stone lions, a blue glazed tile hermitage roof gate tower, a granite hemispherical tomb package, the tomb on the monument engraved with "Mr. Gu Yingfen's tomb, the auspicious date of 1987," and other words. Behind the tomb stands a 3.6-meter-high, 1.83-meter-wide Lianzhou green stone monument, the top of the monument is decorated with sea waves, auspicious clouds, sunrise and other decorations. In seal script, the forehead of the stele reads, "Tomb of Gu Gong, a member of the National Government", and the following paragraph reads, "Built by order of the National Government in November, the 20th year of the Republic of China". The inscription on the tombstone is written by Hu Hanmin.
The tomb was announced on July 8, 2002 by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government as the sixth batch of cultural relics protection units.
About this tomb (now known as the Green Tile Pavilion) there is the location of the same and the streets of the white mountain community (formerly the same and the town of white mountain village) villagers of the legend
Mr. Gu Yingfen's original cemetery range covers an area of the absolute so the range of descriptions of a number of times or more than a dozen times larger. According to a Luo surname of the former mayor of the village described: before the tomb in addition to the door in front of a stone lion, as well as the above description of the green tile pavilion, there are a lot of buildings, Baishan Village is a feng shui treasure, before the eight sides of the mountains, outsiders do not know that there is a village in the depression without pointing out. The anti-Japanese time when the Kuomintang army once built an airport and stationed artillery here, the Japanese occupation of the Japanese army in this also built fortifications, now Shatai Road, South China three toll station near a few hills still have the remains of underground fortifications, can be interconnected.
Perhaps it is this terrain, so the ancient family chose this place for burial. It is said that originally wanted to bury Mr. Hill (now with the same and Dongkeng reeducation through labor camp), why is the quicksand geology, do not dare to be buried, but also afraid of the impact of the townspeople, and then cut down the diameter of half a meter of a number of zhang high cedar, piling into the ground, plus glutinous rice syrup injected, I do not know how many piles, injected how much glutinous rice syrup, before stopping the quicksand. From then on, the quicksand land was bought by the ancient family, and became a place for the purpose like a big sacrificial ground. And then build two stone steps bifurcated on the south side of the two mounds, two mounds are built on a large pavilion, southeast of the pavilion with eight large chains hanging a coffin, coffin for the empty coffin, why so practice, now no one knows. Southeast Pavilion hanging coffins directly under the ground for the underground side of the palace, Mr. Gu's body coffins buried here, covered with glutinous rice paste mixed with oyster shell powder mortar, to prevent grave robbers.
Destruction and reconstruction of the tomb of Mr. Gu Yingfen
Because of the special status of Mr. Gu Yingfen, no matter the Nanjing government and Wang pseudo-government or even the Japanese occupation forces did not carry out substantial destruction of the cemetery.1951, due to the need for the crackdown on counterterrorism, Guangzhou arrested a large number of suspected hostile agents, and the prisons could not cope with the overcrowding, so China **** the Guangzhou municipal government decided to build a large-scale correctional labor facility in Tonghe Dongkeng, that is, today's Tonghe Dongkeng correctional labor facility is located at the same time as the city of Guangzhou. Today, it is the Tonghe Dongkeng Re-education through Labor Center. Re-education through labor facility with the change of use and social changes, the scope of the reduction of a lot, but still can be seen in the year's "grand situation", according to the villagers surnamed Luo, Baishan Village, said: at the time of reeducation through labor facility can be loaded with more than 2,000 people, queuing up from the same and lined up to the Meihuayuan. And Gu Yingfen because once was a Nanjing government officials, and with Hu Hanmin and other opponents of the people of the deep friendship, its cemetery covers a wide area, in the view of the city of Guangzhou at the time of the Chinese ****, when it is not accommodated, so the demolition of its cemetery wall, destroyed four sides of the Feng Shui mountains, occupying its land (that piece of quicksand) to build the re-education through labor camps.
Time change, Baishan Village has long been not when the mountain village surrounded by mountains, due to the last century's state-run farm reclamation, quarry development, the vicissitudes of life, the tomb of the ancient Yingfen faded out of the villagers of Baishan line of sight.
The 1980s, reform and opening up, the policy has changed, many Republicans were vindicated, many of the descendants of the former rich merchants were compensated for the return of private property. In this context, Gu Yingfen's heir returned to pay his respects, when he returned to his hometown in the White Mountains, but to see a reeducation through labor camp. Thanks to the guidance of a few old villagers in Baishan, the tomb of Gu Yingfen has been revisited by his children and grandchildren.
So the children and grandchildren of the ancient family sued the Guangzhou Municipal Government to the court, took out the land deed of the Republic of China, the original photographs of the cemetery and the historical records and other relevant evidence, proved that Mr. Gu was not the ****products described by the party as a "tycoon and bully counter-revolutionary", but was a revolutionary warrior with Dr. Sun Yat-sen to fight alongside him and did not do anything to fish and meat the townspeople and sell out the nation, and asked for vindication of its crimes. The people of the country, demanded vindication of their crimes, restore their reputation, rebuild the cemetery.
According to the mayor of Baishan Village, Mr. Luo said that since he had heard that Mr. Gupang was very familiar with the highest boss in China at that time, he did not dare to see him in Guangzhou City, Baiyun District, or the town of Tonghe for fear of being wrongly accused of being imprisoned; and that he could not be helped because he had proof of the sins of his ancestors, and that his descendents were at a great disadvantage, but that they had a great deal of responsibility. So the Luo village chief threw out as a shield.
Luo village head first listened to Mr. Gupang finished, and then read all the evidence. He gave him an ideological account of the historical development, a political account of the policy changes, an economic account of the villagers' interests, and a promise on behalf of his superiors that he would revisit the cemetery and repair the old cemetery as it was in the old days, and with a lot of emotion and reasoning, Mr. Gupang withdrew his complaint. The new cemetery was built on the basis of the original grave, the area must have shrunk a lot.
But the new cemetery was not repaired for several years, and the Tianjian Logistics Park project in Tonghe Street was launched to acquire land for the construction of the tomb, which had to be dismantled and relocated. So Tonghe Street contacted Mr. Gu Pang to oversee the grave removal project. As the previous covering material used was glutinous rice paste mixed with oyster shell powder, the hooks and excavators used for the demolition rotted a few, showing that it was not easy to destroy the tomb. After the villagers of Baishan burned a few rounds of firecrackers on the spot, and then selected the site for excavation, before digging out the coffin of Mr. Gu Yingfen, but found that the coffin through a large hole, all the burial goods were stolen, only part of the white bones. It turned out that the grave robbers from the original tomb of more than 100 meters away from digging tunnels will be this tomb stolen.
So it was rebuilt for the second time in the 1990s to the small size it is today.
Mr. Gupang still comes to pay his respects from time to time when his health permits. It is said that there are also many Shantou-based businessmen in Guangzhou who come to pay their respects to seek Mr. Gu Yingfen's blessings. Legend has it that Mr. Gu Pang is not the biological son of Mr. Gu Yingfen, the Gu family has a strong family background, quite wealthy, fame and fortune, but the birth of all the gold, no male, so while his wife was giving birth to a child, he switched the prince in the hospital for a Chaoshan businessman's son as the heir, the Chaoshan businessman could not bear to see his flesh and blood separated and sued the court against the Gu Yingfen holding his son as the heir to the crime of the Gu family, the Gu family responded to the lawsuit, but the Chaoshan businessman's family wealth was dissipated all the lawsuits are to no avail, the time of the desperation of the family, the Gu family gave him 1,000 yangs of money, and he was given a gift of 1000 yangs. When he was at the end of his tether, Gu Yingfen gave him a gift of 1,000 daiyang to allow him to rise again. However, this legend was denied by Gupang himself. On December 10, 2010, the "Exhibition of Mr. Ku Yingfen's Documents and Historical Materials" and the launching ceremony of the new book, "A Compilation and Interpretation of Mr. Ku Yingfen's Unpublished Correspondence and Messages", were held at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Marshal General's Palace Memorial Hall. Mr. Zhang Hanqing, former Deputy Director of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress and Advisor to the Sun Yat-sen Foundation; Mr. Zhang Lei, former President of the Guangdong Provincial Academy of Social Sciences and Vice Chairman of the Sun Yat-sen Foundation; Mr. Chen Yuhuan, Inspector of the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Press and Publication of Guangzhou Municipality; Mr. He Ziyuan, a veteran of the 1911 Revolution and the grand grandson of Mr. He Ziyuan, who was a member of the League of Nations of Jiaying State; and Mr. Gupang, the patriotic overseas Chinese and heir to Mr. Gu Yingfen. More than 100 leaders, guests and experts attended the opening ceremony.
The Exhibition of Mr. Ku Yingfen's Documents and Historical Materials featured more than 80 sets of precious artifacts and documents, accompanied by dozens of important historical pictures, to provide a panoramic review of Mr. Ku Yingfen's life; and the "Compilation and Interpretation of Unpublished Correspondence and Messages of Mr. Ku Yingfen", which was compiled and collated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Office at the Sun Yat-sen Marshal's Palace Memorial Hall in Guangzhou, was also premiered at the same time, contributing new and important historical materials for the academic community to study.
Descendants Donate Over 300 Sets of Letters and Manuscripts
Not long ago, Mr. Gu Pang, the heir apparent of Gu Yingfen, donated more than 300 sets of letters, letters and manuscripts left behind by Gu Yingfen during his lifetime, free of charge, to the Sun Yat-sen Marshal's Office Memorial Hall in Guangzhou. The re-opened Guangzhou Marshal General's Palace Memorial Hall hosted an exhibition of Mr. Gu Yingfen's documents and historical materials, as well as the launch of a new book entitled "A Compilation and Interpretation of Unpublished Letters and Telegrams of Mr. Gu Yingfen".
Gu Yingfen, who is in his 80s, traveled from the United States to attend the exhibition. According to Li Suimei, Director of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Grand Marshal's Palace Memorial Hall, "Gou Yingfen played a significant role in almost every important stage of history. It is an important figure that should not be ignored in the study of the Xinhai Revolution and the political, economic and military history of the early Republic of China."
This batch of precious letters, telegrams and manuscripts records a large number of details not known to researchers and the world, including: during the founding of the Whampoa Military Academy by Chiang Kai-shek, he once wanted to resign due to severe financial constraints; in 1914, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen set up the Chinese Revolutionary Party (CRP) in Japan, his key aides, such as Zhu Jixin and Hu Hanyu, disagreed with the CRP on a number of specific issues; and from the end of 1924 to the beginning of 1925, when Dr. Sun Yat-sen traveled to Japan via Japan, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was forced to leave. At the end of 1924 and the beginning of 1925, Sun Yat-sen through Japan to Tianjin, to Beijing *** business is, during which the disease is more serious, Wang Jingwei temporarily presided over the accompanying arrangements, which was criticized by a lot of criticism. It is noteworthy that letters written by Wang Jingwei, Li Xiangen and others to Gu Yingfen during this period provide some important and different information on the matter.
Gu Yingfen was in a position of power and had a close relationship with Sun Yat-sen and others, and had many friends and colleagues, so the letters, telegrams and manuscripts he kept are important cultural relics and have a very high historical value. These letters, to Zhu Jixin, Hu Hanmin, Wang Jingwei wrote the most, Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat-sen and other people's handwriting is not much, but enough to make up for a period of historical vacancies.