Heilongjiang from being occupied. He received no response so Major General Pavel Rennenkampf received Shoushan's surrender on 28 August since no response to the ceasefire proposal was made. Shoushan then committed suicide by asking subordinate or a son to kill him by shooting after swallowing gold. Because Shoushan was married to a Mongol woman, his body was sent to Inner Mongolia from Qiqihar before the Russians occupied Qiqihar. Shoushan called for Heilongjiang to be further colonized by Han people to prevent Russian encroachment. Shoushan's Mongol wife was a daughter of the Mongol chief of the Dorbod Banner. One of his family members, Yuan Ruizhang (袁瑞昌) who was a northern route barracks officer (北路营官) died in battle against the Tsarist Russian forces in Heihe. Physical appearance Ming dynasty scholars described Yuan as a short-tempered person with a tiny body frame, and because of his appearance, the Chongzhen Emperor was highly doubtful about his abilities when he first met Yuan. In popular culture In the wuxia novel Sword Stained with Royal Blood by Jin Yong, Yuan is survived by a fictional son, Yuan Chengzhi, the protagonist of the novel. Yuan Chengzhi was saved by his father's subordinates after his father was executed and taken to the Mount Hua School, where he learnt martial arts. Several years later, when he had grown up, he left Mount Hua and traveled around in search of adventure and to redress his father's legacy. Celebrated as a Cantonese hero, during a 2010 rally, protesters in Guangzhou used Yuan's battle cry against his Jurchen enemies during the Battle of Ningyuan: "Fuck his mom! Hit the hard!" () as a chant, in reference to the removal of the relevant (English-Cantonese bilingual) plaque from a statue of Yuan. In the 2017 TVB drama A General, a Scholar and a Eunuch, Yuan Chong huan was portrayed by Edwin Siu. See also Zu Dashou Wu Sangui Hong Chengchou Man Gui Other admired generals falsely executed for treason Yu Qian Yue Fei Gao Jiong Yuwen Xian Gao Changgong Hulü Guang Zhou Yafu Mikhail Tukhachevsky Flavius Stilicho Flavius Aetius References Further reading 1584 births 1630 deaths Ming dynasty generals Executed Ming dynasty people People executed by the Ming dynasty 17th-century executions by China Politicians from Dongguan Cantonese people Cantonese folklore Ming dynasty politicians People executed by flaying Executed people from Guangdong Generals from Guangdong