After the successful conclusion of the Northern Expedition, the now-defunct Ministry of Agriculture and Minerals formally petitioned the Executive Yuan to establish Arbor Day to commemorate the passing of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Father of Modern China.

They were inspired by the revolutionary ideas of Sun Yat-sen.

When Sun Yat-sen was asked by one of the leading revolutionary generals to what he ascribed the success, he said, " To Christianity more than to any other single cause.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

** Boorman, Howard L. " Sun Yat-sen " in Boorman, ed.

Chiang was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Communists.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

In 1917, Sun Yat-sen moved his base of operations to Guangzhou, and Chiang joined him in 1918.

The incident earned Chiang the trust of Sun Yat-sen.

Throughout his rise to power, Chiang also benefited from membership within the nationalist Tiandihui fraternity, to which Sun Yat-sen also belonged, and which remained a source of support during his leadership of China and, later, Taiwan.

Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925, creating a power vacuum in the Kuomintang.

In 1927, when he was setting up the Nationalist government in Nanjing, he was preoccupied with " the elevation of our leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen to the rank of ' Father of our Chinese Republic '.

Chiang made great efforts to gain recognition as the official successor of Sun Yat-sen.

Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a grand mausoleum.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

As with his predecessor Sun Yat-sen, the Western media dubbed him " Generalissimo ".

In sharp contrast to his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and to Sun Yat-sen, his memory is rarely invoked by current political parties, including the Kuomintang.

Kuomintang ideology promoted the view that the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang, the revolution, and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven.

Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:

The Kuomintang founder Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by the economic ideas of Henry George, who believed that the rents extracted from natural monopolies or the usage of land belonged to the public.

The Kuomintang used traditional Chinese religious ceremonies, the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang and the revolution and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven according to the Kuomintang party.

Its stated goal was for unity with China under the Three Principles of the People, created by KMT founder Dr. Sun and opposition to Japanese and French Imperialists.

The Muslim General Ma Bufang also put Kuomintang party symbols on his mansion, the Ma Bufang Mansion along with a portrait of party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen arranged with the Kuomintang Party flag and the Republic of China flag.

General Ma Bufang and other high ranking Muslim Generals attended the Kokonuur Lake Ceremony where the God of the Lake was worshipped, and during the ritual, the Chinese national anthem was sung, all participants bowed to a Portrait of Kuomintang party founder Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the God of the Lake was also bowed to, and offerings were given to him by the participants, which included the Muslims.

This is derived from the name of the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, and was first used in 1974 by the American media.

The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.

In some cases the Sun is revered as a " father " or " founder " of the tribe.

It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board.

** Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist, founder of the Unification Church ( d. 2012 )

* Sun Ce, elder brother of founder of the Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan ( d. 200 )

* Sun Ce, 25, elder brother of the founder of Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan ( b. 175 )

As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests.

* Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu ( b. 182 )

* Sun Quan, founder of the Kingdom of Wu ( d. 252 )

Sun Quan ( 182 – 252 ), formally Emperor Da of Wu, was the founder of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.

Nanking was not only the capital, but also the location of the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Kuomintang.

In 1891 Sun met revolutionary friends in Hong Kong including Yeung Kui-wan who was the leader and founder of the Furen Literary Society.

Ikshvaku was the son of Manu, the first mortal man, and founder of the Sun Dynasty.