On his deathbed, Yue Fei's third son Yue Lin (岳霖, born 1130) asked his own son,[REF] the poet and historian Yue Ke (岳珂, 1183-post-1240),[REF] to complete Yue Fei's memoirs.
Despite being literate, giving him a chance to become a scholar, young Yue Fei chose the military path because there had never been any tradition of full-fledged Confucian civil service in his family history.