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Overview The translated histories identify Kangxi Emperor as a ruler. This record brings together 14 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Kangxi Emperor
清聖祖
Qīng Shèngzǔ
Personal name
Kangxi Emperor
清聖祖
Qīng Shèngzǔ
Temple name
Sacred Ancestor
聖祖
Shèngzǔ
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Uncertain Life and dates Attested activity Works and attributed material Speech: This is the grandson of a founding minister and the son of a loyal martyr!
Speech: Your father died loyal to the throne, and I have never forgotten. This inscription is for your mother.
Events and relationships Kind: biographical-eventAction: copied a Zhu Xi poem and bestowed the plaque Ever Faithful during a southern tour
Kind: biographical-eventAction: ordered Fan Chengmo to remain in office
Kind: biographical-eventAction: personally wrote a preface to Fan Chengmo's prison-wall writings
Kind: biographical-eventAction: sent an inner minister and guards to receive Fan Chengmo's coffin
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252 Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 14 passages
十年，遭母憂，上命在任守制。
In the tenth year his mother died; the emperor permitted him to observe mourning without leaving his post.
建祠貴陽，上賜「勁節」二字顏其額。
A shrine was erected at Guiyang, and the emperor inscribed its tablet with the words "Steadfast Integrity."
聖祖南巡，幸杭州，御書硃子詩及「永貞」額以賜。
During the Kangxi Emperor's southern tour, when he visited Hangzhou, he personally wrote out a poem of Zhu Xi and bestowed the plaque "Ever Faithful."
總督趙廷臣請除賦額，上命承謨履勘。
Governor-General Zhao Tingchen petitioned to reduce tax quotas, and the emperor ordered Chengmo to survey the land in person.
上命承謨留任。
The emperor ordered Chengmo to remain in office.
承謨疾未癒，命御醫診視，賜藥餌。
Chengmo had not yet recovered; the emperor sent imperial physicians and bestowed medicines.
為賊困逾二年，日冠賜冠，衣辭母時衣，遇朔望，奉時憲書一帙懸之，北鄉再拜。
Imprisoned by the rebels for more than two years, he daily wore the court cap and robes the emperor had bestowed, still dressed in the clothes he had worn when taking leave of his mother. On the first and fifteenth of each month he hung up the official calendar and bowed twice toward the north.
上遣內大臣侍衛迎奠，贈兵部尚書、太子少保，諡忠貞，御書碑文賜其家。
The emperor sent an Inner Minister and guards to receive the coffin. Chengmo was posthumously made Minister of War and Junior Tutor to the Heir Apparent, with the posthumous name Zhongzhen (Loyal and Steadfast), and the emperor wrote an epitaph for his family.
福建民請建祠祀之，御書「忠貞炳日」扁於楣。
The people of Fujian petitioned for a shrine in his honor, and the emperor inscribed its lintel with the words "Loyal and Steadfast, Bright as the Sun."
陛辭日，上顧謂群臣曰：「此開國名臣孫，殉難忠臣子也！」
On the day he took leave of the throne, the emperor turned to the assembled ministers and said, "Here is the grandson of a founding minister and the son of a loyal martyr!"
上遣使護入京，至，授世濟四品京卿。
The emperor sent an escort to bring him to Beijing, and on his arrival Shiji was appointed a fourth-rank metropolitan official.
三桂既平，歲正，上宴群臣，特命世濟及陳啟泰子汝器至御座前賜酒。
After Sangui's rebellion was crushed, at the New Year banquet the emperor summoned Shiji and Chen Qitai's son Ruqi before the throne to receive wine in special honor.
九年，上特命減死戍梧州。
In the ninth year the emperor commuted his sentence to exile at Wuzhou.
舒恕、麻勒吉先後以聞，上嘉其忠誠，授廣西巡撫、徵蠻滅寇將軍，俾增募義兵，便宜行事。
Shushuo and Malleji reported his actions in turn. The emperor praised his loyalty, appointed him governor of Guangxi and General for Subduing Rebels and Destroying Bandits, and authorized him to recruit volunteers and act at his own discretion.