Chen Youding

Chen Youding (d. 1368) was a Yuan loyalist general who held Fujian during the dynasty's collapse. Orphaned and impoverished, he worked as a farm labourer and in a salt shop before enlisting as a postal soldier.

He won promotion from 1352 by crushing revolts and defeated Chen Youliang's general Deng Keming. In 1364 he lured Zhu Yuanzhang's officer Hu Shen into an ambush and killed him. He suppressed the Ispah rebellion in coastal Fujian and rose to Pingzhang, the province's highest official.

When Ming armies took his stronghold Yanping in 1367, he attempted suicide, was captured and taken to Nanjing, refused to submit, and was executed in 1368.