Initial Idea

Design Information

1. Project title： a memorial for Yue Fei

2. Site: the memorial will be sited in Yue Fei's hometown.
According to the History of Song, Yue Fei was born in Tangyin, Xiangzhou (in present-day, Tangyin County, Anyang City, Henan Province).

Big dot for Tangyin county, small dot for Yue Fei's village.

3. Material:  stone or metal

(The details will be decided in the following study.)

4. Scale or shape ( may ):  on the big square tablet is the head of Yue Fei.

After searching some pictures of Yue Fei's memorial, I found that there are already too many full-body statues of Yue Fei, so I hope to design a simple and ambitious square memorial.

5. Design tools: Sketchup/ AI/ AutoCAD/ PS

Design Idea

1. Elements ( may ): 

• Four Chinese words：" Jin Zhong Bao Guo" means loyal to the country, and it is a reflection of Yue Fei's life.
• Weapons and horses: they must have been Yue Fei's longest company in his military career.
• Yue Fei's battle map: this represents Yue Fei's achievements.
• His portrait

2. How to use those elements:

• His portrait will be on the memorial。 
• Those elements may be carved on the big square tablet.

3. Initial concept （may）:
1) The memorial maybe not large in shape, but it must be angular. 
This represents that although Yue Fei was born ordinary, his character was firm and resolute. 
In the past, when the country was in danger, he persevered and defeated foreign enemies.

2) The memorial may be divided into two parts. 

• One part is the main body of the tablet. Yue Fei's head and some of his famous events are engraved on the front and the back of the main body are the four characters, which represent his masterpiece and its guiding ideology.
• Another part is the base of the monument, with as little decoration as possible as a simple undertaking of the same material as the main body above.

4. Size: 
(The following Gregorian calendar is based on  the History of Song.)
Yue Fei was born in 1103.
Yue Fei's four northern expeditions to recover the lost territory took place in the three years of 1134, 1136 and 1140.
Yue Fei died in 1142.

Then, the possible sizes are 328cm* 228cm, 333cm*234cm, 334cm*234cm, 335cm*235cm, 335cm*236cm.

The hight of the memorial is 1103+1140=2245cm

References:
Toqtoγa et al. (1346) History of Song (In Chinese).Shanghai: Zhonghua Book Company, 365(124). Available from: http://chinesenotes.com/songshi/songshi365.html [Accessed: 08/07/2020]