The Sun Yat-sen Former Residence Memorial Museum in Cuiheng — a village twenty-five kilometres south-east of the Zhongshan city centre — is the single most-visited site in the city and the reason many Chinese travellers come at all. The complex centres on the two-storey grey-brick house Sun built in 1892 for his mother with money sent home from Hawaii. The house contains original furniture, family photographs, and the bed in which he slept on his visits home.
Around the house has grown a substantial museum complex covering Sun's life, the 1911 Revolution, and the early Republican period. Don't miss the recreated Cuiheng of the 1860s — a small open-air village showing what the place looked like in his childhood. Entry is free; the museum closes Mondays.