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Historical person
c. 1181–1225
Jebe was one of Genghis Khan’s most important field commanders. After entering Temüjin’s service, he became renowned for long-range campaigns and helped extend Mongol power across Central Asia and into the Caucasus. In Legends of the Condor Heroes he appears during Guo Jing’s upbringing on the steppe.
Jin Yong’s fiction uses this historical figure within a narrative that blends documented events, popular legend and wuxia invention.
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Legends of the Condor Heroes begins in 1205, when the Southern Song court has lost northern China to the Jurchen Jin dynasty and Temüjin is uniting the Mongol steppe. Guo Jing, the son of a murdered Song patriot, grows up among the Mongols before returning south, where his…
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