serviceyears death_date death_place birth_place allegiance battles birth_date image article_title name
1122 -- 1142 27 january 1142 hangzhou , zhejiang , china tangyin , anyang , henan , china song dynasty song -- jin wars 24 march 1103 file : yue_fei . jpg yue fei
 yue fei
yue fei

yue fei -lrb- 24 march 1103 -- 27 january 1142 -rrb- , courtesy name pengju , was a han chinese military general who lived in the southern song dynasty .
his ancestral home was in xiaoti , yonghe village , tangyin , xiangzhou , henan -lrb- in present-day tangyin county , anyang , henan -rrb- .
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 by emperor xiaozong in 1169 , and later granted the posthumous title king of È -lrb- 鄂王 -rrb- by emperor ningzong in 1211 .
widely seen as a patriot and national folk hero in china , since after his death , yue fei has evolved into a standard epitome of loyalty in chinese culture .
