Yuè Fēi 岳飛 (1103–1141), zì Péngjǔ 鵬舉, posthumous canonisation Wǔmù 武穆 and posthumous-enfeoffment Èwáng 鄂王. Sòng general; the most famous loyalist commander against the Jīn invasion. Sòng shǐ j. 365 biography. Native of Tāngyīn 湯陰 (Hénán).
Famous for his bēi (engraved) “jìnzhōng bàoguó” 盡忠報國 (“exhausting-loyalty, repaying-the-state”). Executed in 1141 by Qín Guì 秦檜 with the mò xū yǒu (might-be-it-might-not-be) charge — the type-case of judicial murder in Sòng historical memory. Posthumously rehabilitated under Xiàozōng (1162); canonised Wǔmù in Chúnxī 6 (1179); enfeoffed Èwáng under Níngzōng.
CBDB id 8175 confirms 1103–1141.
His writings survive only as Yuè Wǔmù yíwén 岳武穆遺文 KR4d0191 in 1 juǎn, edited in the Míng by Xú Jiē 徐階 徐階. Originally 10 juǎn per Chén Zhènsūn KR3h0011 (titled Yuè Wǔmù jí); the Sòng shǐ records that Wànsì Xiè 万俟卨 had reported to Qín Guì on confiscating Yuè’s family papers — including imperial yùzhá (handwritten edicts) — to mièjì (erase the traces). The destruction of Yuè’s writings was part of the political-cultural elimination project. The Míng recension preserves only fragmentary survivals.