Yue Fei (24 March 1103 - 27 January 1142); courtesy name Pengju; was a military general who lived in the Southern Song dynasty. His ancestral home was in Xiaoti; Yonghe Village; Tangyin; Xiangzhou; Henan (in present-day Tangyin County; Anyang; Henan). He is best known for leading Southern Song forces in the wars in the 12th century between Southern Song and the Jurchen-ruled Jin dynasty in northern China before being put to death by the Southern Song government in 1142.

He was granted the posthumous name Wumu by Emperor Xiaozong in 1169; and later granted the posthumous title King of 脠 (??) by Emperor Ningzong in 1211. Widely seen as a patriot and national folk hero in China; since after his death; Yue Fei has evolved into a standard epitome of loyalty in Chinese culture.

Su Manshu (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Su M脿nshu; 1884-1918) was a Chinese writer; poet; painter; revolutionist; and a translator. He was born as Xuanying in 1884 in Yokohama; Japan. He later adopted Su Manshu as a Buddhist name. His father was a Cantonese merchant; and his mother was his father's Japanese maid. He went back to Guangdong; China when he was five while his mother stayed in Japan.He became a Buddhist monk three times during his life; once at the age of 12; later in 1899; and again in 1903. He studied in Japan and traveled to many Buddhist sites including those in India; and Java. He was involved in revolutionary activity against the Qing Dynasty writing articles and papers. He mastered many languages 鈥?English; French; Japanese and Sanskrit. He died at the age of 34 in Shanghai.

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