My plan was to get into Anhui where I will stay for a week attending a course at a hospital (not your regular 'western', but a TCM, traditional chinese medicine, one) there, and if ticket is available from Beijing to Moscow on the Trans-Siberia, I will continue up north. The reason to fly into Guangzhou was simply because the budget airline don't fly to AnHui. So here's an excuse to take a train to AnHui, with night's break in WuHan.
But after the trip to the Sun Yat-Sen memorial hall and some reading-up, Guangzhou, WuHan, TCM and Beijing all have something to do with his life, and death.
Remember that he was somehow thought to be a man of great ideas but no that great at executing them? Well, after many failed battles with the Qing army, it was the uprising of 1911 (the XinHai revolution, aka WuChang)Uprising in Wuchang that really spelled the begining of the end of the Qing dynasty. Ironical Sun Yat-Sen wasn't even in the country at the time.
But you can't deny him as a man with great ideas. He was one of the earliest men to recognize the importance of railway to a strong republic. Many decades before the Qinghai-Tibet railway, he has envisioned a highland railway. It would take almost a century after the XinHui revolution (in December 1911) before the maiden run on the high-speed rail link between his hometown Guangzhou and the site of his successful uprising in WuHan.
High speed (WuHan) or low (Bangkok), all deserve a scrub-down at the end of a trip.
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