Names Of Sun Yat-sen
Like many Chinese, Sun Yat-sen used different names at different points in his life and he is known in China under several of them. Names are not taken lightly in Chinese culture. This reverence goes as far back as Confucius and his insistence on "rectification of names."
In addition to the names and aliases listed below, Sun Yat-sen also used other aliases while he was a revolutionary in exile.
Read more about Names Of Sun Yat-sen: Genealogical Name: Sūn Démíng (孫德明), Big Name: Sūn Wén (孫文), Small Name: Sūn Dìxiàng (孫帝象), Baptised Name: Sūn Rìxīn (孫日新), Western Name: Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙), Courtesy Names: Zàizhī (載之), Japanese Name: Nakayama Shō (中山樵), Chinese Name: Sun Zhong-shan (孫中山), Honorary Titles: Gúofù (國父) and Xīanshēng (先生)
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“In a time of confusion and rapid change like the present, when terms are continually turning inside out and the names of things hardly keep their meaning from day to day, it’s not possible to write two honest paragraphs without stopping to take crossbearings on every one of the abstractions that were so well ranged in ornate marble niches in the minds of our fathers.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Almanacked, their names live; they
Have slipped their names, and stand at ease,
Or gallop for what must be joy,”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)
“He will watch from dawn to gloom
The lake-reflected sun illume
The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom,
Nor heed nor see, what things they be;
But from these create he can
Forms more real than living man,
Nurslings of immortality!”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)