Yue Fei

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Yue Fei
Portrait of Yue Fei in Liu Songnian's Four Generals of the Restoration.
Native name	岳飛
Born	(1103-03-24)March 24, 1103 Tangyin, Anyang, Henan, Northern Song dynasty
Died	January 28, 1142(1142-01-28) (aged 38) Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Southern Song dynasty
Allegiance	Song dynasty
Years of service	1122–1142
Battles / wars	Song–Jin wars
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	岳飛
Simplified Chinese	岳飞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yuè Fēi Wade–Giles Yüeh4 Fei1 IPA [ɥê féɪ] Wu Suzhounese Ngóh Fi Gan Romanization Ngok5 Fi1 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Ngohk Fēi Jyutping Ngok6 Fei1 IPA [ŋɔk̚˨ fej˥] Southern Min Tâi-lô Ga̍k Hui Middle Chinese Middle Chinese /ŋˠʌk̚ pʉi/

Yue Fei (Chinese: 岳飛; March 24, 1103 – January 28, 1142),^[1] courtesy name Pengju (鵬舉), was a Chinese military general of the Song dynasty and is remembered as a patriotic national hero, known for leading its forces in the wars in the 12th century between Southern Song and the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty in northern China. Because of his warlike stance, he was put to death by the Southern Song government in 1142 under a frameup, after a negotiated peace was achieved with the Jin dynasty.^[2] Yue Fei is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu by Jin Guliang.

Yue Fei's ancestral home was in Xiaoti, Yonghe Village, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, Henan (in present-day Tangyin County, Anyang, Henan). He was granted the posthumous name Wumu (武穆) by Emperor Xiaozong in 1169, and later granted the noble title King of E (鄂王) posthumously by the Emperor Ningzong in 1211. Since his death and after the fall of the Song dynasty in 1279, Yue Fei is widely seen as a culture hero in China; he has evolved into a paragon of loyalty in Chinese culture.