Events from the year 1684 in China.
Incumbents
- Kangxi Emperor (23rd year)
Events
- The Kangxi Emperor lifts the haijin prohibition on sea trade, allowing foreigners to enter Chinese ports in 1684[1]
- The amount of copper in the alloys if cash coins was reduced from 70% to 60% all while the standard weight was lowered to 1 qián again, while the central government's mints in Beijing started producing cash coins with a weight of 0.7 qián. [2][better source needed]
- The first mention of chili peppers in local gazettes in Hunan. They would later become a staple of Hunanese cuisine.[3]
- Sino-Russian border conflicts
Deaths
- Yinju (胤䄔; 13 September 1683 – 17 July 1684), 19th son of Kangxi, born through an unnamed Noble Lady, of the Gorolo clan (貴人 郭絡羅氏)
- Mu'an (Chinese: 木庵性瑫; pinyin: Mù'ān Xìngtāo; Japanese Mokuan Shōtō) (1611–1684) a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Yinyuan Longqi to Japan in 1654
References
- ^ Shi 2006, pp. 8–10.
- ^ Hartill, David (2005). Cast Chinese Coins. Trafford, United Kingdom. p. 285. Trafford Publishing. ISBN 978-1412054669
- ^ "Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food". 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- 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.
- Shi, Zhihong (2006), "China's Overseas Trade Policy and Its Historical Results: 1522–1840", Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market, Studies in the Modern History of Asia, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 4–23, ISBN 9781134194087.