On November 27, the twelfth year of Ming Chongzhen (1638), Chen Tingjing was born in Zhongdaozhuang, Yangcheng County, Zezhou Prefecture, Shanxi (present-day Huangcheng Village, Beiliu Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi), with the character Ziduan, the alias Fan Chuan, the trumpet Yan, and in his later years, the Wuting Shanren, and the Yangcheng people of Shanxi. In the more than two hundred years from Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty to the Qianlong Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, the Chen family has appeared in four successive generations of the grand situation of "Nine Jinshi, Six Hanlins", and there is a couplet in the ancestral hall of the Chen Clan of the Emperor Chen that reads: "Deji One Gate Nine Jinshi, Enrong III Six Hanlin", which is a good proof that the Chen family in the imperial city has become one of the famous Keju wang clans in Shanxi in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
In the sixteenth year of Ming Chongzhen (1643), Chen Tingjing "read sentences at the age of six" as a master. At the age of seven, he took Xue Xuan as his teacher, which laid a solid foundation for his future research on science.
In the second year of Shunzhi (1645), Chen Tingjing wrote a poem at the age of nine and had a famous sentence: "The "Wing Peony" absolute sentence cloud: 'Peony after spring blooms, plum blossoms first spring.' To make everything spring, it is necessary to have spring and hate to release. Mrs. Zhang's wife, Zhang Shi, said, "This son wants to make all foreign things his master!" At the age of nine, he had such an arrogance," the wise man said that he would be known as Zaifuya after the day of the Zhigong. Seeing that Chen Tingjing had such a high level of learning, Mr. Wang resigned from the position of master of the school on the grounds that "I cannot teach it". After that, he studied with his father Chen Changqi and his cousin Chen Yuan.
In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), the fourteen-year-old Chen Tingjing took the boy exam and stood out among many candidates and won the first place, and the teacher was Zhang Sijiao.
In the fourteenth year of Shunzhi (1657), Chen Tingjing, who was only twenty years old, was raised in the examination, and the chief examiner in this year was Tang Gengyao.
In April of the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), Chen Tingjing was a jinshi, and the chief examiners of the examination were Fu Yiwei and Li Xia. In the same month, Chen Tingjing was elected as a Shu Jishi to enter the Hanyuan to study Manchu, and was later awarded the secretary's review for winning the first prize in the examination of the scattered museum, in the same year as Li Tianfu, Cui Weilin and other famous literati. In order to distinguish him from Chen Jing of Shuntian Tongzhou in the same museum, the Shunzhi Emperor gave him the name Tingjing.
In the first month of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), the Kangxi Emperor took the throne, and was appointed as a lecturer of the Qiju Zhizhi Temple, and was deeply respected by the Kangxi Emperor.
In the first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1662), due to the ill health of his mother Zhang, Chen Ting asked for a leave of absence to return home for 4 years.
In the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1667), Chen Tingjing, who was an official in Beijing, and Gong Dingzi, a poet of the Rebbe, initiated a poetry club, with the participation of famous scribes such as Wang Shichen, Wang Wan, and Cheng Keze.
In the Tenth Year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1671), Wei Xian's Selected Poems of the Hundred Famous Artists of the Qing Dynasty was printed. The sixteenth volume is the Selected Poems of Chen Shuyan, a total of sixty-nine poems by Chen Tingjing. In June of the same year, the "Selected Poems of eight families" by Wang Shichen and Wu Zhizhen engraved on jiaxing Wu's Song Wan, Cao Erkan, Shi Yanzhang, Shen Quan, Wang Shilu, Cheng Keze, Chen Tingjing, and Wang Shichen's "Selected Poems of Speaking Rocks" was published, of which Chen Tingjing's "Selected Poems on Saying Rocks" received 214 poems.
In the twelfth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1673), he was transferred to the bachelor's degree and was the deputy examiner of the Chongwuhui Examination. In the same year, Wang Shichen's "Collection of Feeling old" collected twenty-six poems by Chen Tingjing.
In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), he was promoted to a cabinet scholar and served as a lecturer at the feast.
In the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1678), Chen Tingjing officially entered the Zhinan Study.
In the twenty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1682), Chen Tingjingchong would be a deputy examiner. When the vice-capital Yu Shi Yu Guozhu was pacified by Southern Yunnan, please determine the movement. The meeting of the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Temple, the suburban temple is still the same as the first year of Shunzhi, and the dynasty meeting is more determined. Chen Tingjing wrote fourteen chapters, which were instructed to be practiced.
In January of the twenty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1684), he granted Zuo Du Yushi and the money law of the household department, and neglected to change the official money to du private minting, and exempted the copper tax to facilitate mining. The imperial court uniform system is prohibited. Carefully select the governor, and the public love and the people's diligence and honesty shall prevail. Strictly encourage localities to make public the accounts of disaster relief money and grain, and put an end to corruption and abuse of the people by corrupt officials.
On the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1685), Chen Tingjing wrote in the "Persuasion to Be Honest and Eliminate The Evils, Please Discuss the Customs in Detail", pointing out: "The greedy and honest, the key to governance; the extravagant and thrifty, the root of corruption." If you want to teach honesty, be frugal first. He also pointed out to the point: "Good is still in the hearts of the people, and it is like the water is lost in the embankment and does not know what to do." In the same year, he also impeached Wang Jiwen in the "Fuchen Loss of Pay and Loss of The State according to the Truth", believing that he did not have to donate grain and grass during the war, but used treasury silver, and after the triumph of the army, he paid the stored grain and rice to the officials of the province with official money, and the difference between the silver before and after was as much as 900,000 taels. On the first chapter, Wang Jiwen dismissed the official, and the history books recorded that from then on, "the wind and discipline were rectified."
In September of the twenty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1686), Shangshu moved to the Ministry of Works, and played the "Collection of Ancient Classics" with xu Qianxue, which was viewed by Kangxi Jiana. He was instructed to revise the "Three Dynasties Hadith", "Political Precepts", "Strategies", "Great Qing Unification Chronicle", "Ming History" and other books.
In December of the twenty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1687), when his relative Zhang Feng was appointed as the governor of Huguang, Chen Zizhi of Shanxi Province impeached Zhang Feng for "not holding a position for a long time, and there were many goods". Zhang Yushu, the head of the bingbu, seized the opportunity to impeach Chen Tingjing, who was related to Zhang Wang.
In April of the 27th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1688), Zhang Feng was hanged for "embezzling more than 90,000 silver taels". Chen Tingjing submitted to the Kangxi Emperor "Bowing down and sincerely praying for grace to return home to settle the gap", apologizing to the emperor for his sins and pleading to go home and keep filial piety.
In September of the twenty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1689), Gao Shiqi impeached Xu Qianxue. The Kangxi Emperor was well aware of Xu Qianxue and Gao Shiqi's many tricks, so he sent Xu and Gao out of Beijing.
In February of the 29th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1690), shortly after Xu and Gao were forced to leave the capital, Chen Tingjing was again used as the imperial history of zuodu. In the same year, Sun Feng's "Selected Poems of the Emperor and Qing Dynasty" was published, including three poems by Chen Tingjing". Volume 6 of the book contains Chen Tingjing's poem "Painting a Song of Song House for Zhou Jingxiang in the Sound of the Qian Palace", Volume 17 receives "Sending Yang Songgu Yixia", and Volume 25 receives "Winter Night Nostalgia for the Old Mountain".
In the 30th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1691), Chen Tingjing was appointed as the examiner of the huihui examination.
In April of the forty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1703), Bai Chen Tingjing was made a scholar of Wenyuange University and an official Shangshu, serving a feast. There are "Three Ritual Instructions", "Travels of the Old Grandmother", "Afternoon Pavilion Literary Compilation", "Chen Shuoyan Poems" and so on.
In April of the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1705), the Kangxi Emperor made his fifth southern tour, summoning Jiangnan Shizi to try in Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Jiangning, and Chen Tingjing, together with the university scholar Zhang Yushu and the scholar Of charge of the academy, were ordered to read the papers and preside over the annual examination.
In the forty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1710), the imperial court established a book compilation agency with Zhang Yushu and Chen Tingjing as the presidents, and began to compile the Kangxi Dictionary with more than thirty famous scholars.
In November of the forty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1710), Chen Tingjing begged for rest due to ear disease, and the emperor agreed. Chen Tingjing entered the Forbidden Garden, and the Kangxi Emperor said: "Qing is an old man, and he is a very complete person. In the same year, Wu Wei's "Selected Poems of Famous Artists" selected Ten poems by Chen Tingjing's "True Learning and True Temperament", ranking fifth; Liu Ran's commentaries and Zhu Yu's "Poetry of the National Dynasty" volume V selected twenty-nine poems by Chen Tingjing; Tao Xuan and Zhang Xuan's "Poetry of the National Dynasty" selected thirteen poems by Chen Tingjing.
In May of the fiftieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1711), when the university scholar Zhang Yushu died and Li Guangdi was not cured, Chen Tingjing was once again required to enter the zhi office and preside over the compilation and revision of the dictionary.
In March of the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1712), Chen Tingjing became seriously ill, and the Kangxi Emperor ordered the Tai Hospital to be examined.
On April 19, 1712, the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Chen Tingjing died of illness. According to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", the Kangxi Emperor "deeply regretted it" and ordered the ministers of the various ministries and the Han Dynasty to go to the sacrifice, and personally wrote an elegy: "The poetry of the hereditary generation is heavy, and the name is in the only honor." Went to the age of injury Yuanfu, years of pain. Chao En Aoi is loyal, and the national ceremony jade is balanced. Confucian empty steps sigh, long throat light run. Shen Deqian, a literary scholar in the Qianlong period, commented on Chen Tingjing: "The five languages express their sparse and bright performance, and the beauty of Kong Guang's cutting of grass." The six words express their bowing and whiteness, which is the same as the purity of Kou Laigong's own practice. 'There are officials living in ding nai, and there is no land to rise from the platform', Wei Ye Chenglai Gong also. ”
In the fifty-fifth year of The Kangxi Dynasty (1716), the Kangxi Dictionary was compiled into a book, the dictionary adopted the radical classification method, arranged single words according to strokes, the dictionary book was divided into twelve episodes, identified by twelve branches, each set was divided into upper, middle and lower three volumes, and arranged according to the rhyme, tone and syllable classification of the rhyme table and its corresponding Chinese characters, a total of 47,035 Chinese characters (47,035), is one of the main references for Chinese character research.