Yuefei City Ruins

　　The Yuefei City Ruins are a key cultural relic protection unit of Hubei Province. They are situated 8 kilometers north of Wulipu Town and south of Yaquepu on National Highway 207. The site is rectangular in shape, stretching 2 kilometers from north to south and 1.5 kilometers from east to west. Historical records indicate that in the fourth year of the Shaoxing era (1134 AD) during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei was ordered to resist the Jin invaders and established a fortress here. Yue Fei's troops were stationed here for eight years, hence the name "Yuefei City." In recent decades, artifacts such as stone axes, stone chisels, bronze swords, bronze halberds, bronze mirrors, and iron hoes have been unearthed at the Yuefei City Ruins.

　　

　　Yue Fei (1103~1142)　　Yue Fei (1103–1142), courtesy name Pengju, was a native of Tangyin in Xiangzhou (now part of Henan). He was an outstanding military strategist and tactician of the Northern Song Dynasty. Yue Fei’s father, Yue He, and mother, Lady Yao, were farmers. In his youth, Yue Fei studied archery and spear techniques under Zhou Tong and Chen Guang, becoming the most skilled martial artist in the county. However, due to his family’s poverty, he later went to Xiangzhou (now Anyang) where he “worked as a farmhand for Han Weigong (Qi)’s estate.” In the fourth year of the Xuanhe era (1122), Yue Fei first joined the army. In October of the same year, during the Northern Song’s campaign against the Liao Dynasty, he reached the outskirts of Yanjing (present-day Beijing), the Liao capital, and was deeply impressed upon seeing the towering city walls... Details+