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Chen Tingjing (1638 [1] 65438+February 3, 20021-kloc-0/765438+May 23, 2002), prefix, afternoon pavilion in Yangcheng, Zezhou, Shanxi Province (now Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province). At the beginning, he was named Jing, because the same family had the same name, so the court added the word "court" to him and changed it to court scene.
In the 15th year of Shunzhi (1658), he was a scholar, changed to Jishi Shu, and was rewarded by the secretariat. In the fourteenth year of Kangxi (1675), he was a bachelor of cabinet and assistant minister of rites, and served as an official at the banquet. Later, he served as an imperial advisor, Ministry official and household official in Zuodu. In the forty-second year of Kangxi (1703), he was a bachelor and a high official in Wenyuange. In the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (17 10), he was the editor-in-chief of Kangxi Dictionary. Kangxi died in April of fifty-one years at the age of seventy-five.
Chen Tingjing's works and poems are profound and elegant. Siku Quanshu contains 50 volumes of Editions of Wu Ting, including 20 volumes of Poems and 3 volumes of Wu Ting and Ren Shan II. The Wu Ting Mountain Village built by Chen Tingjing in his hometown has been preserved to this day.
Literary achievements
Chen Tingjing wrote many books in his life. Personal poetry collections mainly include: Wu Ting Wen Bian, Monks Collection, Xuan Shi in the Wild, Poems of Shuo Yan, Zhi Yao in Shan Li, Boudoir Collection in Wu Ting, etc. . He has presided over the compilation of national historical records for many times, mainly including Taishi Zhi Taishi Zhang, Taizong Wen, Collection of Ancient Books, Sanchao Shengxun, Zhengdian, General Plan for Pacifying Three Contradictions, Records of the Qing Dynasty, Pei Fu, Lu, Kangxi Dictionary and so on. Among them, Kangxi Dictionary is a far-reaching Chinese character dictionary compiled by more than 30 famous scholars such as Zhang Yushu and Chen Tingjing according to the imperial edict of Kangxi. It was updated on the basis of dictionaries and orthography in Ming Dynasty. The compilation of this book began in the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (17 10) and was completed in the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi (17 16), which lasted six years, so it was named Kangxi Dictionary. The dictionary adopts radical classification and arranges words according to strokes. The dictionary is divided into twelve episodes, marked by twelve earthly branches. Each episode is divided into three volumes, namely the first volume, the middle volume and the second volume. The vowel table and its corresponding Chinese characters are arranged according to vowels, tones and syllables. * * There are 47,035 Chinese characters (47,035), which is one of the main references for the study of Chinese characters. [8]
Kangxi dictionary
Chen Tingjing wrote many poems in his life, and Emperor Kangxi was one of the best poets of all ages. He looked at Chen Tingjing's poems with the eyes of a poet and appreciated them very much. Among them, the poems written by Chen Tingjing, a great scholar, are varied, elegant and mellow, which beginners can't see. Pretending that the five words are almost uniform to show grace, the title of the poem itself greatly appreciates Chen's poem, and the poem goes one step further: "fresh and purple" and "a great poet", which greatly appreciates it. After his death, Kangxi wrote "Poems of Great Scholars" and remembered Chen's "Attaching importance to poems handed down from generation to generation". It can be seen that the achievements of his poems and Fu were really appreciated by Kangxi. During his tenure in the capital, he founded a poetry club with Gong Dingzi, a well-known poet and minister of rites, in the sixth year of Kangxi (1667). Participants included Wang Shizhen, Wang Wan, Cheng Keze and other famous scribes.
Liu Ran selected twenty-nine poems of Chen Tingjing from Nineteen Ancient Poems and commented: "Poems of Taige are for entertainment. Although they have nothing, they are ignorant. ..... Teacher Zhu's article is rich and beautiful, full of irony, long sentences and phrases. The relationship between heaven and man, the friendship between subjects and ministers, and the dripping cutting, I just want to speak. It is irresistible to ask him to be loyal, filial, depressed, positive and current. Poetry is used to do things! "
Political achievements
Chen Tingjing lived in the Kangxi period, and worked in such important departments as the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Official Affairs, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Punishment, and served as a bachelor of reading and lecturing for a long time, until the University of Wenyuange.
Coin reform
During his tenure at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Chen Tingjing once combed out bad habits and made clear the law of money. He found that at that time, some profiteers destroyed money to cast copper, which made the amount of money decrease and the quality deteriorate day by day, threatening the financial cornerstone of the country. So he proposed to change the emphasis on making money to light, stop collecting copper taxes to increase the source of copper, and put an end to the phenomenon of destroying money and casting copper. This move is undoubtedly conducive to maintaining the stability of the monetary system.
Cure corruption
At that time, many officials in the Qing court took bribes, and the wind of corruption was very serious. Chen Tingjing hated it. In the first month of the 24th year of Kangxi (1685), he said to the imperial court: "The key to being a qualified official is to be honest and clean. However, luxury and frugality are the root causes of corruption. To be honest, we must first cultivate their frugality. In ancient times, from clothes, horses and chariots to costumes, when dealing with weddings and funerals, it was necessary to be' cheap and not expensive, neither too small nor too big'. Now, because the wind of luxury has not been removed, even the poor are ridiculed for frugality, and the rich are even more uncontroversial luxury, making everyone compete for luxury a trend. As a result, corruption and illegal activities for profit have increased and become more and more serious. " He hit the nail on the head and pointed out: "goodness is still the lust in people's hearts, and it is better to know yourself when water loses its bank."
Emperor Kangxi received Chen Tingjing's suggestion and agreed, pointing out that in the future, "we should return to simplicity, follow the rule of law, stress practical results and advocate frugality".
Official administrative reform
In order to maintain the rule of the Qing court, Chen Tingjing said: "The governor's duty is to inspect and guide officials, so that the people can settle down for a long time. It is not enough for officials to observe directors and perform their duties. Confucius once said: if you can't teach, it's not the people who are guilty. In order to prevent people from breaking the rules, it is best to teach them first. To teach on the road, you must first take an examination of the governor. In this way, the Governor may say,' The problem lies with the officials. If officials are honest and capable and don't make a big fire to consume taxes, the director won't take bribes, and the people won't suffer because they violate the criminal law. "If officials don't have this ability, it can be said that they have committed crimes against each other. Of course, it's not all the fault of officials. The boss is clean, and officials naturally dare not take bribes and break the law. If the boss takes bribes illegally, although officials want to be clean, it is not easy to do so. Every official spends more money, takes bribes and plunders the people. Busy watching every day, busy pleasing the boss. How can he have time to teach? People will see what officials have done and say,' Can such people still teach me?' If you don't listen to discipline, use criminal law. Officials did this because the governor guided them to do so. So the most important thing at present is that the governor should be qualified. They must not be moved by greed. Only when you are honest can you manage officials well, and they don't have to think about how to please and curry favor with their superiors all day, but they all pay attention to doing things for the people. The people will be able to recuperate. "He also suggested that the governor should be given a general order, and anyone who sponsors state and county officials must investigate whether they have any illegal activities. Punish offenders severely, as an example. The inspection of the governor depends on whether he is clean and honest, and whether he has set an example for officials.
In the political career of Kangxi in 61 years and Chen Tingjing in 53 years, he was promoted 28 times, and he has been a college student in Wenyuange and a senior official. There was no prime minister in the Qing dynasty, and a college student was equivalent to a prime minister. Chen Tingjing assisted Kangxi for more than half a century and became an important minister of Kangxi Dynasty. [9
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