Yuewang Temple, where the hero rests eternally among mountains and rivers after an eight-thousand-mile journey of clouds and moon

Located on the north bank of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, at the Qixialing Ridge, Yuewang Temple, also known as Yue Tomb or Yue Temple, is the burial place of Yue Fei, a famous Song Dynasty general who resisted the Jin Dynasty and a national hero. Yuewang Temple was listed as a key national cultural heritage site in 1961. In the eleventh year of the Shaoxing era of the Southern Song Dynasty (1142), Yue Fei, along with his eldest son Yue Yun and his officer Zhang Xian, were killed on trumped-up charges. The jailer Wei Shun carried Yue Fei's body out of Lin'an City to the Jiukong Cong Temple and buried it at Beishan. In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing (1162), Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended to the throne and posthumously exonerated Yue Fei in the name of the abdicated Emperor Gaozong, reburied Yue Fei's remains with the honors of a first-rank official at the southern foot of Qixialing in Hangzhou. The tomb of Yue Fei was renovated by successive dynasties. In the fifty-fourth year of the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty (1715), the tomb of Yue Fei was rebuilt, changing the original architectural specifications. In the sixth year of the Jiaqing era (1801), Ruan Yuan, the governor of Zhejiang, renovated Yue Fei's tomb and hung the plaque 'Yuewang Temple' above the main entrance, which has been used to this day. In the 1960s and 1970s, Yuewang Temple suffered severe damage. In 1978, it was restored and reopened.