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Historical person
1103–1142
Yue Fei was a Southern Song general remembered for campaigns against the Jurchen Jin. His execution on imperial orders made him a lasting symbol of loyalty and resistance. In A Snake Lies Waiting, writings attributed to him become a strategic prize sought by Jin agents.
Jin Yong’s fiction uses this historical figure within a narrative that blends documented events, popular legend and wuxia invention.
Series
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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