1670 in China

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Events that occurred in the year 1670 in China .

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (9th year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhejiang — Zhao Tingchen
• Viceroy of Fujian — Liu Dou
• Viceroy of Chuan-Hu — Cai Yurong
• Viceroy of Shan-Shaan — Moluo
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhou Youde, Quan Guangzu ^{[1] [ better source needed ]}
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Gan Wenkun
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Maleji

Events

• The Kangxi Emperor's Sacred Edict (聖諭) first issued. It consists of sixteen maxims, each seven characters long, to instruct the average citizen in the basic principles of Confucian orthodoxy ^[2]
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

References

1. "Provinces of China".
2. Victor Mair, "Language and Ideology in the Sacred Edict," in Andrew J. Nathan David G. Johnson, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, eds.,, Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (Berkeley: University of California Press, )

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN   0521243343 .