Kangxi Emperor (聖祖)

Overview

Kangxi Emperor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1687 二十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 105-106
AD 1688 二十七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 112
AD 1670 to AD 1688 聖祖時
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 93
AD 1669 聖祖親政
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 79

Career and standing

Changed decapitation to imprisonment awaiting autumn execution
Commuted sentence · With Degele (德格勒)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 115
Leniently pardoned without further investigation
Pardon · With Degele (德格勒)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 118
Took personal rule
AD 1669 聖祖親政
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 79

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 79

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Degele (德格勒)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 101
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 107-111

Events and relationships

Dismissed mingzhu
AD 1688 二十七年 · Legal · Authority · With Mingzhu (明珠)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 112
Ordered divination by changes
Ritual · Commissioner · With Degele (德格勒)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 96
Ordered papers shown and guangdi questioned
Political · Authority · With Li Guangdi (李光地)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 117
Pardoned and recalled banished counselors
AD 1669 聖祖親政 · Political · Ruler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 79
Relaxed fugitive slave prohibition
AD 1669 to AD 1680 居數年 · Political · Ruler
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 80
Summoned palace examination
AD 1687 二十六年 · Scholarly · Examiner · At Palace of Heavenly Purity 乾清宮
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 106

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Summoned to discuss classics and histories
Scholarly · Summoner · With Degele (德格勒)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 93

Assessments and attributes

Assessment did not agree with Degele's constant comments on contemporaries; learning has its own weight · With Degele (德格勒) · Mode named-speech Speaker Kangxi Emperor (聖祖)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 109, 111

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 282Volume 282 Biographies 69: Jiang Xizhe, Yu Jin, De Ge Lei, Chen Zizhi, Ren Hongjia, Gao Cengyun, Shen Kaiceng, Gong Xianglin, Gao Xiachang · 6 passages

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聖祖親政，順治間建言諸臣坐遷謫者，次第赦還，惟議及逃人不在赦例。 When the Sage Emperor took personal rule, officials banished during Shunzhi for offering counsel were pardoned and recalled in turn, except those who had spoken on fugitive slaves, who were not covered by the amnesty.

聖祖時，召見講論經史，嘗扈從巡行。 Under the Sage Emperor he was summoned to discuss the classics and histories and once accompanied the emperor on tour.

會久旱，上命德格勒筮，遇夬。 During a long drought the emperor ordered Degele to divine by the Changes; he obtained Guai.

上愕然，曰：「安有是？」 The emperor was startled and said, "How can that be?"

踰月，上召尚書陳廷敬、湯斌等及德格勒、徐元夢試於乾清宮。 A month later the emperor summoned Ministers Chen Tingjing, Tang Bin, and others, together with Degele and Xu Yuanmeng, to an examination in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.

光地還京師，上命尚書張玉書等以德格勒試卷示九卿，並詰光地。 When Li Guangdi returned to the capital, the emperor ordered Minister Zhang Yushu and others to show Degele's examination papers to the Nine Ministers and to question Guangdi as well.