Sun and three classmates from medical school, Chen Shao-pai, You Lieh, and Yang He-ling would talk from morning until night, "and nothing we said was not revolutionary speech, nothing we thought about was not revolutionary thought, nothing we studied was not revolutionary materials ..." Because their ambitions were much the same as Hung Hsiu-chuan, condemned by the Ching as a bandit, they called themselves "bandits."
在香港西醫書院念書的中山先生與志同道合的陳少白、尤烈、楊鶴齡朝夕往還，「所談者莫不革命之言論，所懷者莫不革命之思想，所研究者莫不為革命之問題… …」因志如洪秀全，自詡為寇。