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感谢广西师范大学外国语学院组织的翻译工作 【英文】
“Sun Yatsen is immortal” in the Yangzhi Pavilion of the Solitary Beauty
Peak
The stone carving with the inscriptions –“Sun Yatsen is immortal” by Liao
Chengzhi, the son of Liao Zhongkai and He Xiangning, is located in the Yangzhi
Pavilion nearby the Solitary Beauty Peak. The pavilion, a hexagonal pseudo -classic
architecture, was first built in 1925 C.E., and destroyed by the fire in the War of
Resistance against Japanese Invasion. It was rebuilt based on its original design by
the Guilin Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee. The couplets of the
pavilion are “The small construction is right to invite the moon; The ancients did not
see the high mountain “. Every year on Sun Yat Sen’s birthday, people from various
circles in Guilin will pay their respect for the stone carving, reminiscing about the
great man’s past experience in Guilin and searching for his footmark in the city.
The two words of “yang zhi”, taken from the verse line—“(one’s) Morality is so high
as a mountain, and so broad as a great road that people tend to look up and follow
with reverence (yang zhi)” --express Guilin people’s infinite reverence for Dr. Sun
Yat Sen.
Sun Yat Sen’s Stoping over in Guilin to Set up the Headquarters of
the Northern Expedition
From December 4th, 1921 C.E., to April 11th, 1922 C.E, Provisional President
of the Republic of China Sun Yat Sen had a stopover in Guilin for more than
four months. During this period, he organized the headquarters of the Northern
Expedition and prepared to launch a war against the Northern Warlords in China,
expecting to realize national unity. On December 4th, President Sun arrived at
Guilin and was warmly welcomed by 30,000 local people, who stood in long line for
miles on both sides of the streets, cheering for his arrival at Guilin. Sun established
the headquarters of the Northern Expedition and the field headquarters in the
Jingjiang Prince Residence. During his stay in Guilin, he engaged in the following
revolutionary activities: On December 23, 1921 C.E., Marlin, the representative of
the Communist International (Comintern) took a special trip to visit Sun Yat Sen
in the Jingjiang Prince Residence, which was the first official contact between Sun
and representative of Soviet Russia; In their second long talk, Marlin made such
advice to Sun as reorganizing the Kuomingtong (KMT), the Nationalist Party, setting
up military officers’ academies, and cooperating with Chinese Communist Party
(CCP), to which Sun readily agreed. Meanwhile, Sun expressed his ideas on the spot
that “future revolution must be carried out according to the model of the Soviet
Communist Party”. After that, he committed to reorganizing the KMT of China,
adopting the Three Great Policies of Uniting Russia, Uniting the Communist Party
and Supporting the Farmers and Workers, and establishing the Huangpu Military
Officers’ Academy; On January 1, 1922 C.E., Sun Yat-sen ordered the abolition of the
"Five -Color (red, yellow, blue, white and black) Flag," and approved the “Blue Sky,
White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth” Flag as the national flag of the Republic of China
(1911-1912 C.E.). On the same day, the official national flag-raising ceremony (the
national flag also called the “Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth” Flag of
the Republic of China) was held at the the headquarters of the Northern Expedition
(the Jingjiang Prince Residence in Guilin); He installed himself as generalissimo
of military and naval forces, held military meetings to discuss the strategy of the
Northern Expedition, and declared the organizing rules of the headquarters of the
North Expedition. Subsequently, he issued the mobilization order and held an oath
taking and the flag-conferring ceremony before taking the Northern Expedition
out; During the ceremony, Sun motivated the army by saying that, “Today is just the
right time to launch the North Expedition” … “Now we all set out from Guilin to fulfil
our mission or failing that, die for a just cause.” On the day to start out, more than
40,000 soldiers from such provinces as Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Jiangxi
joined in the rally, feeling exhilarated, organized into seven troops, ready to start out
for the North Expedition. (Afterwards, since Chen Jiongming turned against Sun, the
North Expedition Army had to change its course to suppress his rebellion.) Besides,
Sun promised to “deliver speeches in person in every city and town of Guangxi
Province”. So he delivered the following five speeches in Guilin: “Ihe Implementation
of the Three Principles of the People and the Ways to Develop the Natural Resources
of Yangshuo County”, “Three Principles of the People is the Complete Method to
Build a New State”, “Difficult to know and Easy to Do”, and “The Implementation of
Three Principles of the People should be the prerequisite to Reform the New State,
Spiritual Education of Soldiers”; In his speeches, Sun expounded the Three Principles
of the People and explained incisively his proposed ideas including “universal love”,
“equality”, “the whole world as one community”, and “Great Harmony in the World”,
which have produced great impact on Guilin’s modern revolutions. Moreover, he
visited Lize Gate where Jiang Yiwu died a martyr and had a memorial monument
erected, on which Sun’s inscription -- “the scene where Mr. Jiang Yiwu, Founders of
the state, died a martyr”-- was engraved.
The arrival of President Sun Ye Sen from afar is likened to the arrival of a
flourishing spring in Guilin. The noble man’s visit to the city aroused the local
people’s excitement and cheerfulness. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is immortal in Guilin,!
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