Why was Sun Yat-sen buried in Nanjing?

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Sun Yat-sen requested to be buried in Nanjing because it was the city where he first proclaimed the Republic of China.1

Although he passed away in Beijing in 1925, his remains were initially kept in a temple in Xishan before being moved to a grand mausoleum on Purple Mountain in Nanjing in 1929. This site, designed by Lu Yanzhi, serves as a significant memorial to the man regarded as the father of modern China.21