Background
Sun was born in Shan County, Shandong province on the 28th day of the eighth lunar month in 1895.
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Sun was born in Shan County, Shandong province on the 28th day of the eighth lunar month in 1895.
Sun was also known as Ming Shan (明善) or Hui Ming (慧明), her religious name. Her followers regarded her to hold the seat of the 18th patriarch together with Zhang in 1930. Many of Zhang"s followers followed her leadership.
Only a small fraction stayed on with Madame Liu, the second wife of Zhang.
When the communists took over China in 1949, Sun moved to Hong Kong. She then went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a short period (1951-1952) then returned to Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong she was said to have left behind a large number of heavenly mandates (天命). Until today there are few elders in Hong Kong who were believed to be the keeper of these heavenly mandates.
In 1954, she moved to Taiwan.
She was sick in the last years and under the care of a nun surnamed Zhou in Taichung. Later she was under the care of Wang Hao De until her death. She died on the 23rd day of the second lunar month in 1975 (4 April 1975) one day before the death of Chiang Kai-shek.
She was buried in Daxi, Taoyuan.
She was given the title Zong Hua Sheng Mu (中華聖母) (Holy Mother of the Chinese) by her followers.