Yue Fei



"So darn very long ago, Yue Fei is here to fight against the Jurchens, which are now Manchus. But... now what? Well, at least he said sorry to those Manchus, because that's discriminatory of course. This guy would've be the one who's protecting my village. But, yeah. Let Yue Fei make sure that no one stand in his own darn way!"

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Return of Seth

Yue Fei (March 24, 1103-January 27, 1142), courtesy name Pengju, was a Han Chinese military general who lived during the Southern Song dynasty. His ancestral home was in Xiaoti, Yonghe Village, Tangyin, Xiangzhou, Henan (in present-day Tangyin County, Anyang, Henan). He is best 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 before being put to death by the Southern Song government in 1142. He was granted the posthumous name Wumu (武穆) by Emperor Xiaozong in 1169, and later granted the posthumous title King of È (鄂王) by Emperor Ningzong in 1211. Widely seen as a patriot  and national folk hero in China, since his death Yue Fei has evolved into a standard epitome of loyalty in Chinese culture.