Yue Fei ( zh, t=岳飛; March 24, 1103 – January 28, 1142),
courtesy name
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Pengju (), was a Chinese military general who lived during the
Southern Song dynasty
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and a
national hero
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of China, known for leading Southern Song forces in
the wars in the 12th century between Southern Song and the
Jurchen-ruled
Jin dynasty in northern China. Because of his warlike-stance, he was put to death by the Southern Song government in 1142 under a
concocted charge, after a negotiated peace was achieved with the Jurchens.
Yue Fei is depicted in the
Wu Shuang Pu
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(, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang.
Yue Fei's
ancestral home
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was in Xiaoti, Yonghe Village, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, Henan (in present-day
Tangyin County
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,
Anyang
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It had a ...
,