Yue Fei (General Yue Pengju)
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Yue Fei (General Yue Pengju) 🇨🇳

岳飛 / 岳鵬舉 (Known as "Yue Fei")
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Born Mar 24, 1103 🇨🇳 Tangyin (Anyang, Henan), Song Dynasty (China)
Passed Away Jan 27, 1142 Hangzhou, Southern Song (China)
Lifespan 38 years old
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"My heart burns with grief: Thirty years of dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. (From his poem Man Jiang Hong)."

Archival Overview

National hero and supreme commander of the Southern Song dynasty whose elite Yue Family Army repelled the Jurchen Jin dynasty with unbroken patriotism.

Biographical Record

Yue Fei (1103–1142), courtesy name Pengju, is China's foremost patriot and folk hero, celebrated for his peerless military genius, strict ethical discipline, and supreme loyalty. Born to an impoverished peasant family, his mother famously tattooed four Chinese characters into his back: 'Serve the country with utmost loyalty' (jin zhong bao guo).

During the Jin–Song Wars following the fall of Kaifeng in the Jingkang Incident (1127), Yue Fei raised the elite Yue Family Army (Yuejia Jun), known for the adage: 'Easier to shake a mountain than to shake the Yue Family Army.' In 1140, he defeated Prince Wuzhu's heavy iron pagodas at the Battle of Yancheng and was poised to reclaim Kaifeng when treacherous Prime Minister Qin Hui and Emperor Gaozong issued twelve gold plaques ordering his immediate withdrawal. Imprisoned and murdered on fabricated charges of treason, he was posthumously exonerated as Prince of E and deified as a martial deity.

Key Life Milestones

Battle of Yancheng

Decisive Defeat of the Iron Pagoda Cavalry

Ordered infantry armed with hook-bladed halberds to sever the legs of Wuzhu's heavily armored Jin cavalry, routing the Jurchen host.

Martyrdom at Fengbo Pavilion

Treacherous Execution on 'No Ground' Charges

Poisoned in Hangzhou prison on the spurious charge of 'perhaps it happened' (mo xu you), dying as China's immortal symbol of loyalty.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Yue Fei Temple & Tomb (West Lake)
Hangzhou, China
GPS: 30.2524, 120.1347
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