serviceyears branch death_place death_date allegiance battles birth_date nickname rank image article_title name
1894-1912 tongmenghui shanghai , republic of china october 31 , 1916 -lrb- aged 42 -rrb- tongmenghui , kuomintang xinhai revolution october 25 , 1874 eight fingered general general huang xing.jpg huang xing
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huang xing

huang xing or huang hsing -lrb- ; october 25 , 1874 -- october 31 , 1916 -rrb- , was a chinese revolutionary leader , militarist , and statesman , and the first army commander-in-chief of the republic of china .
as one of the founders of the kuomintang -lrb- kmt -rrb- and the republic of china , his position was second only to sun yat-sen .
together they were known as sun-huang during the xinhai revolution .
he was also known as the `` eight fingered general '' because of wounds sustained during war .
his tomb is on mount yuelu , in changsha , hunan , china .
huang was born in the village of gaotang , now part of changsha , hunan .
like many other chinese men born before 1949 , huang was known by many different names during his life .
his birth name was `` huang zhen '' , but this was later changed to `` huang xing '' .
he was also known as `` huang keqiang '' and `` qing wu '' .
in the period after 1911 he also used the names `` li youqing '' and `` zhang shouzheng '' .
