Madame Yang gave birth to Sun Yat-sen in the village of
Cuiheng,
Xiangshan County (now
Zhongshan City),
Guangdong, in 1866, when she was 39 years old. In 1878, when Sun Yat-sen was 13, she brought him from
Macau to
Honolulu by boat so he could live with his elder brother,
Dezhang. Madame Yang returned to China the same year. After the failure of the
First Guangzhou Uprising in 1895, Sun Yat-sen was placed on the wanted list by the Qing court and his family became at risk of being captured.
Lu Muzhen, Sun Yat-sen's first wife, took her children and Madame Yang to stay with Dezhang in Honolulu. Later, after Dezhang became bankrupt from funding Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities, Madame Yang, along with the other family members in Honolulu, moved to
Ngau Chi Wan in
Kowloon, Hong Kong. == Grave ==