Lu Haodong (1867-1895), born in Xiangshan (Zhongshan), was a good friend and classmate of Sun Yat-sen since childhood when they were in the same private school. In 1883, the two of them destroyed the status of God of the North Temple in their village and so the village people did not welcome them anymore; they went to Hong Kong, and then they believed in Christian and baptized. In 1884, he went to Shanghai to enter the Telegraph School, and graduated to be a worker in the Telegraph Bureau. He always went to Hong Kong to meet the “Four Bandits”. They talked about the corruption of Qing government and tried to find a way to rescue China. In 1890, he returned to Zhongshan from Shanghai, and discussed with Sun Yat-sen for several days to confirm their objectives, which was to push aside the Man government and make revolution.

In 1893 he established Xing Li Silk Eggs Company in Shunde for which Sun Yat-sen wrote “I own the company, the farmers own the profits” as a couplet. He also attended the Kang Fengxuan Meeting in Guangzhou, which claimed “done with the corrupting government and rebuilding the Chinese nationality” as its goal.

In 1894, he accompanied Li Hongzhang to Tianjin in order to make their petition, which turned out to be a failure. Then they went to Beijing and Wuhan to see the situation. In the following year they established Xingzhong headquarters in Hong Kong. He advised them to use blue sky white sun flag as their insurrectionary army’s symbol, which was accepted by the leader. Therefore, he went to Guangzhou to open their secret service to contact their members. In October 26th, he got the message that the government knew their plan, so he escaped. When he remembered that there was a name list of all the members, he went back to burn it, but unfortunately was caught. In the prison, he did not surrender to the violence, and he admitted that he was strongly against the dominion of Qing government, which was corrupt and violent. In November the 7th, he was killed.

He was called “The first man sacrificed for the Communistic Revolution in history”. There was no way to find his skeleton, so his relatives buried two of his teeth and some of his clothes at the foot of Beili hill in Cuiheng village.