Why did Sun Yat-sen go to the Ming Tombs when he overthrew the Manchu Dynasty?
The peasant revolution led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, successfully expelled the alien rule of the Yuan Dynasty and restored the rivers and mountains of the Han nationality. In this sense, the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was also a national revolution. The Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen was not only a bourgeois democratic revolution, but also a national revolution to overthrow the alien rule of Manchu. In this respect, Sun Yat-sen can also be said to have inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's spirit of expelling Tatars and restoring China. Moreover, during the more than 260 years of Manchu alien rule, many anti-Qing people regarded the Ming Tombs as a symbol of the national independence spirit of Han compatriots. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital, Hong Xiuquan led a hundred officials to see the Ming Tombs. Therefore, after Sun Yat-sen became the interim president, he missed visiting the Ming Tombs. /kloc-in February, the Qing emperor officially announced his abdication. Three days later, Sun Yat-sen personally led the civil and military officials of the interim government to the Ming Tombs to pay homage to Ming Taizu.