Yu Jin
| Yu Jin | |
|---|---|
| General of Cao Wei | |
| Born | (Unknown) |
| Died | 221 |
| Names | |
| Traditional Chinese | 于禁 |
| Simplified Chinese | 于禁 |
| Pinyin | Yú Jìn |
| Wade–Giles | Yu Chin |
| Courtesy name | Wenze (simplified Chinese: 文则; traditional Chinese: 文則; pinyin: Wénzé; Wade–Giles: Wen-tse) |
| Posthumous name | Marquis Li (simplified Chinese: 历侯; traditional Chinese: 厲侯; pinyin: Lì Hóu) |
Yu Jin (died 221),courtesy name Wenze, was a military general serving under the warlord Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty. He joined Cao Cao in 192 around the start of the civil wars leading to the collapse of the dynasty, and fought in many of the campaigns which established the warlord's position as a central figure in that period. In 219, Yu Jin was tasked with leading forces to relief Cao Cao's general Cao Ren, who was being besieged in Fancheng by Liu Bei's general Guan Yu, but his armies were destroyed in a flood due to heavy rains. Yu Jin surrendered to Guan Yu and became a prisoner-of-war, but was transferred to the custody of another warlord, Sun Quan, after Sun's forces captured Guan Yu's bases in late 219. Sun Quan treated Yu Jin like a guest and sent him back to the state of Cao Wei – founded in late 220 by Cao Cao's successor, Cao Pi, who ended the Eastern Han dynasty – in 221. Cao Pi pardoned Yu Jin and restored him to the position of a general. However, Yu Jin died later that year in regret after visiting Cao Cao's tomb, where he saw illustrations of the Battle of Fancheng depicting his surrender to Guan Yu.
Yu Jin was named one of the Five Elite Generals of his time, alongside Zhang Liao, Yue Jin, Zhang He and Xu Huang, by Chen Shou, who wrote his biography in the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
Yu Jin was from Juping County (鉅平縣), Taishan Commandery (泰山郡), which is in present-day Tai'an, Shandong. In the early 180s, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Yu Jin responded to the Han government's call for volunteers to serve in the imperial army and help to suppress the revolt. He became a subordinate of the general Bao Xin, who was based in Yan Province (covering present-day southwestern Shandong and eastern Henan).
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