Enlightenment · East Asia · Politics

1682

Kangxi Emperor's Sacred Edict

1682

The Kangxi Emperor issued the Sacred Edict, sixteen maxims on filial piety, frugality, and social harmony, and ordered them read aloud in every village across the empire twice monthly. The edict was Confucian governance distilled to its essence - a Manchu emperor ruling through Chinese moral philosophy, turning lecture into law and virtue into statecraft.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: 1680: Kangxi Revives Classical Chinese Learning
After: 1683: Qing Conquers Taiwan

Before and after in Politics

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After: 1683: Pennsylvania Treaty at Shackamaxon

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.