Sanyuanli People Kangying Douzheng Memorial Hall
Brick temple turned museum where villagers rallied against British troops in eighteen forty-one, with captured weapons and the original battle flag on display.
This guide to the Sanyuanli People Kangying Douzheng Memorial Hall in Guangzhou opens on a rain-soaked morning in May 1841, when thousands of villagers armed only with bamboo pikes and kitchen cleavers converged on a British column during the First Opium War. It traces the spark back to farmer Wei Shaoguang, whose wife was assaulted by foraging soldiers, and to the night villagers gathered at the old Sanyuan Temple and took its three-star banner down to carry as their war flag. Inside the temple today you can see the captured uniforms, machetes and the seal of local leader Wu Ziyuan, kept behind glass alongside that same flag.
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