Nanxioong, Meiling Migratory Pass – The group at the gateway of the 500-year old Meiling Pass, one of the earliest migration routes for the Cantonese.
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Xinhui, Humen – Actual site of the eradication of opium in Guangdong, which eventually led to the Opium Wars. Tour leader, Marlon Hom shares the history of the site with the group.
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| Xinhui – Hiking up to the 1893 Gold Mountain Charity Cemetery. |
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Xinhui – Gold Mountain Charity Cemetery headstones. All the individuals buried here, has migrated to work in America. When they died, their bones were shipped back to the Xinhui, via the associations, to be reclaimed and buried. These bones were never reclaimed and the city of Xinhui buried them in a charity cemetery. |
| Xinhui, Siqian – A local dragon boat race in the river. |
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Kaiping – Deng Family village development built in the 1920s. Deng family members in America invested money in the development to have this new village built for their residence. |
Kaiping – Participant, Hubert Yee's paternal ancestral village. The path leading into the village.
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Kaiping – Hubert Yee's village fishpond. |
| Kaiping- Hubert Yee in his village home looking at photographs of his ancestors. |
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Guangzhou – Traffic congestion in the city. |
| Yellow Flower Memorial Park, Guangzhou – Site of the 72 martyrs mausoleum. A revolutionary uprising occurred in 1911 in support of Sun Yat Set. They were suppressed and 72 people were killed. Sun Yat Sen began to fundraise in the 1920s, targeting all the major overseas Chinese communities to build a monument in memory of those 72 martyrs. A figure similar to the Statue of Liberty was erected, and behind the statue are blocks with the names and locations of the many various overseas Chinese communities who contributed to the memorial. |
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Yellow Flower Memorial Park, Guangzhou – Some of the engraved blocks. |
