Born in Chao county of An Hui province, Feng Yuxiang (1882-1938) was a legendary general of Kuomintang.

After a September 18 incident in 1931, Feng Yuxiang advocated resisting Japanese aggression, and was repelled by Chiang Kai-shek for opposing his passive resistance policies.

Feng once lived in the Pu Zhao temple of Mount Tai twice from 1932 to 1935. During his residence, he involved himself in reading books to seek for truth and made great contributions to the people there.

He was concerned about the people’s life and donated clothes and food towards the miserable people. He contributed to building a bridge and set up 14 elementary schools where the poor children could read books for free. He introduced fruit trees such as Yantai’s apple and Feicheng’s peach into the mountain. Cooperating with Zhao Wangyun, he wrote 48 poems illustrated by the pictures themed with the people’s miserable life and then engraved them into 48 steles. To memorialize the martyrs sacrificed in the Luan Zhou rise up of 1911 revolution, Feng built martyr blessing hall and martyr monuments in the northeastern and southern part of the temple respectively.

In 1953, according to his will, his remains were buried in Mount Tai.

Editor: Li Jing

Source: Information Office of Tai'an Government