Last Sunday, after spending quite some time in the bookstore, I went to the nearby National Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall. Sun Yat-Sen studied medicine but then devoted his life to politics. He was significantly involved in removing the Qing dynasty in mainland China at the beginning of the 20th century, and founding the Guomindang party, which is still one of the major parties in Taiwan. I didn’t go inside as I had planned to go to Taipei 101 afterwards and didn’t have much time. There’s an hourly guard change accompanied by a short ceremony, which I wanted to watch. There were a lot of people, so I couldn’t see much. I also visited the small museum dedicated to Sun Yat-Sen. Let me show you some pictures:
A Picture of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen at the entrance of the small museum
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen even shared a stamp with Lincoln
A honorary guard entering the ceremony
There were so many people in front that I could only watch the ceremony through my camera lense pointed at somebody’s iPad
A honorary guard’s shoulder
The bronze statue being honor guarded
A honor guard
Some statues in the park surounding the memorial hall tell situations of Yat-Sen’s life. Here: as a pupil listening to his old teacher
