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Biography of Yo Fei
Name: Yo Fei
Birth Date: 1103
Death Date: 1141
Place of Birth: T'ang-yin, Honan, China
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Occupations: general, military leader, nationalist
Yo Fei
The Chinese general Yo Fei (1103-1141), also known as Yo P'eng-chü, led the Chinese army against the Chin invaders, the Jürchen Tatars. He is a symbol of national resistance against foreign aggression.Yo Fei was of a peasant family in T'ang-yin, Honan. Legend has it that at his birth a bird called p'eng (a symbol of greatness) soared over the house; hence his personal name was associated with the p'eng. He lost his father in his early years and was devoted to his mother. Largely self-taught, he read Sun Wu's Art of War (an ancient military classic) and practiced archery.Yo lived in an age of political chaos and foreign invasion. He joined the army early and distinguished himself as a great soldier. His statement--"Civil officials should not be greedy of money; nor should military officers be afraid of death"--has been the first principle of Chinese …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…onslaughts of the Tatar cavalry. "It is easy to move a mountain, but difficult to shatter the Yo soldiers" was the comment of the Tatars. Just when Yo was within an ace of recapturing Pien-liang (K'ai-feng, the former capital), Emperor Kao Tsung, on the advice of Ch'in Kuei, ordered a withdrawal.In 1141 Ch'in Kuei divested Yo of his command, then had him imprisoned on a fictitious accusation, and finally arranged for him and his son Yo Yün to be executed. But in 1162 Emperor Hsiao Tsung designated Yo a Hero of Loyalty and ennobled him as the Prince of Yo; in 1179 the Emperor canonized Yo as the Saint of War. A temple bearing his name at Lin-an (Hangchow, the capital), where he was buried, was built in his honor. Further Reading Yo Fei is the subject of an essay in Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett, eds., Confucian Personalities (1962).
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