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1684 in China

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{{Year in China| 1684}}

Events from the year 1684 in China.

Incumbents

Events

  • The Kangxi Emperor lifts the haijin prohibition on sea trade, allowing foreigners to enter Chinese ports in 1684{{harvnb|Shi|2006|pp=8–10}}.
  • 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. Hartill, David (2005). Cast Chinese Coins. Trafford, United Kingdom. p. 285. Trafford Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1412054669}}{{better source needed|date=May 2019}}
  • The first mention of chili peppers in local gazettes in Hunan. They would later become a staple of Hunanese cuisine.{{Cite web|url=http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food|title=Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food|date=14 April 2016|access-date=21 May 2019|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923004411/http://nautil.us/issue/35/Boundaries/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food|url-status=dead}}
  • Sino-Russian border conflicts

Deaths

  • Yinju ({{lang|zh|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 ({{zh|t=木庵性瑫|p=Mù'ān Xìngtāo}}; Japanese Mokuan Shōtō) (1611–1684) a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Yinyuan Longqi to Japan in 1654

References

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  • {{cite book|title=Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao)|last=Zhao|first=Erxun|author-link=Zhao Erxun|year=1928|language=zh}}
  • {{citation|last=Spence|first=Jonathan D.|chapter=The K'ang-hsi Reign|editor-first=Willard J.|editor-last=Peterson|title=Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800|place=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|pages=120–182|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hi2THl2FUZ4C&pg=PA120|isbn=0521243343}}.
  • {{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLBgaa8d4aMC |title=Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market |editor=A. John H. Latham |editor2=Heita Kawakatsu |display-editors=0 |series=Studies in the Modern History of Asia |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon |date=2006 |contribution=China's Overseas Trade Policy and Its Historical Results: 1522–1840 |pages=4–23 |last=Shi |first=Zhihong|isbn=9781134194087 }}.

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{{Year in Asia|1684}}

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