His birth place was the village Cuiheng , Xiangshan County Sun Yat-sen was born on 12 November 1866.[2] His birthplace was the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan County, (later Zhongshan County) Guangdong Province.[2] He had a cultural background of Hakka[9] and Cantonese. After finishing primary education, he moved to Honolulu, where he lived a comfortable life of modest wealth supported by his elder brother Sun MeiZhongshan. Province-Guangdong