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Emperor Kangxi Stayed at Cao Yin's House Four Times During His Southern Tours—a Half-Century-Long "Close Friendship" Between Kangxi and Cao Yin | Yuanshan | Dream of the Red Chamber
In the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, the city of Yangzhou was filled with the fragrance of ink. A prominent Jiangning textile commissioner was under imperial order to oversee a massive project—the printing of the Complete Tang Poems. Through the miracle of hand-copying, he left behind 48,000 poems from the golden age of the Tang Dynasty for posterity; yet, he also used his family's wealth to pave a desolate path for his grands…
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In the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign, the city of Yangzhou was filled with the fragrance of ink. A prominent Jiangning textile commissioner was under imperial order to oversee a massive project—the printing of the Complete Tang Poems. Through the miracle of hand-copying, he left behind 48,000 poems from the golden age of the Tang Dynasty for posterity; yet, he also used his family's wealth to pave a desolate path for his grands…