Sacred Edict Of The Kangxi Emperor
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| Originally published | 1724 |
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| Authors | Kangxi Emperor |
| Ch'ing Shêng Tsu | |
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| ID | 2617450 |
About Sacred Edict Of The Kangxi Emperor
In 1670, when the Kangxi Emperor was sixteen years old, he issued the Sacred Edict 聖諭, consisting of sixteen maxims, each seven characters long, to instruct the average citizen in the basic principles of Confucian orthodoxy.