When talking about the Qing Dynasty, one topic that must be inseparable is: the prosperous era of Kangqian. As the heyday of the development of the Qing Dynasty, the kangqian dynasty was also the last prosperous era of the ancient Chinese feudal dynasty, during which Chinese society reached its extreme under the feudal system, social stability, rapid economic development, rapid population growth, and relatively vast territory.
The kangqian dynasty experienced three generations of emperors, Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, which lasted for one hundred and thirty-four years, and the reason why the development of society at that time can be called the peak of the development of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the great talent and hard work of the rulers, is also inseparable from those sages who have left their names in history. The rise and fall of history, the change of dynasties, the lessons of the past, and the teachers of the future have proved that only by attaching importance to talents and knowing how to make good use of people can the country become strong, and this can also be clearly seen in the three emperors of the prosperous era of Kangqian. The next thing we are going to discuss is a famous minister during the Kangxi period, who was once Kangxi's teacher, and even the residence where he lived was called the "Imperial City". Let's move on.
Chen Tingjing (Chinese: 陈廷敬; pinyin: Zhīng Tingjing), courtesy name Zirui (字子瑞), was born in the twelfth year of Ming Chongzhen (1638) in Huangcheng Village, Yangcheng County, Zezhou Prefecture, Shanxi Province. Chen Tingjing has been smart and studious since childhood, loves to study articles, and when he grows up, he successfully passes the imperial examination and embarks on his career path with extraordinary talent. In fact, Chen Tingjing's original name was Chen Jing, but because when the temple was tested, there was another Jinshi of Shuntianfu who was also called Chen Jing, and the Shunzhi Emperor gave Chen Jing a "Ting" character to Chen Jing in Zezhou Prefecture to show the difference, which also showed that Chen Tingjing was appreciated by the emperor at that time, and this "Ting" character also made Chen Tingjing like a wing, Qingyun went straight up, Pengcheng Wanli, and was promoted a total of 28 times in his lifetime.
After becoming a jinshi in the fifteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1658), Chen Tingjing was also selected as a Shujishi in the Hanlin Court because of his outstanding performance and ability, and was responsible for drafting edicts as a close subject of the emperor. Until the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), when Kangxi ascended the throne, Chen Tingjing had another job, that is, to give lectures to the emperor, and the official position was directly promoted to the Hanlin Academy's Attendant Bachelor, who was in charge of the Academy, and Chen Tingjing also began his imperial career from then on, and was deeply respected by the Kangxi Emperor during his tenure. At the age of 40, he entered the South Study Room and successively served as shangshu of the Ministry of Works, Shangshu of the Hubu, and Shangshu of the Punishment Department; in the twenty-third year of The Kangxi Dynasty (1684), Chen Tingjing, at the age of 46, conferred the Zuo Du Yushi and the Money Law of the Ministry of Households, and also took advantage of this to rectify the extravagant and corrupt practices of the officials of the imperial court, neglecting to change the official money to prevent private mining, exempting the people from copper taxes to facilitate mining, fixing the imperial court uniform system, and prohibiting the extravagance; when selecting the people's parent officials, the supervising officials, the public love for the people and the honesty of the government; strictly punishing the local governments to open the accounts of disaster relief money and grain, and to put an end to corruption and corruption of the people.
Chen Tingjing's meritorious deeds are not only in government affairs, but also in literature has made great contributions, he has compiled a number of books in his lifetime, the main works of poetry and anthologies are "Selected Poems of Samye", "Collection of Saying Rock Poems", "Instructions on Mountain Rituals", "Collection of Returns to the Afternoon Pavilion", etc., and also presided over the compilation of national classics and historical records for many times. The Kangxi Dictionary is divided into twelve episodes, identified by twelve branches, each of which is divided into three volumes, and arranges the rhyme table and its corresponding Chinese characters according to the classification of vowels, tones and syllables, including a total of 47,035 Chinese characters, which is one of the main references for the study of Chinese characters and is of great significance to the study of Chinese characters today.
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In the fifty-three years of Chen Tingjing's political career, after twenty-eight promotions, to the forty-second year of Kangxi (1703), Chen Tingjing was promoted to Wenyuange University Scholar and Official Shangshu, on the occasion of the Qing Dynasty did not have a prime minister, the university scholar was equivalent to the prime minister, Chen Tingjing assisted Kangxi for more than half a century, deeply appreciated by the emperor and respected by courtiers, and became a generation of important ministers of the Kangxi Dynasty.
The Kangxi Emperor regarded Chen Tingjing as a heavy courtier, and gave him many special rewards, and the reason why Chen Tingjing's mansion was called "Imperial City" was because the Kangxi Emperor had stayed here twice, so it was named "Imperial City", located in Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, originally named "Zhongdaozhuang". During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Chen family living here was at its peak, with as many as 38 people embarking on the career path, and most of them had outstanding political achievements, which can be called the Hanlin family.