Ruler and minister face each other with hair and beard gone white — is this not a joy?
君臣相對,鬚髮皓白,豈不為樂。
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Kangxi Emperor
Third Qing emperor (1654-1722). His 61-year reign — the longest in Chinese history — crushed the Three Feudatories, took Taiwan, signed the Nerchinsk Treaty, made the Kangxi Dictionary, founded the literary inquisition.
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Source: 在位61年の宴(1722年正月)で大臣たちに語った言葉。『清史稿』聖祖本紀Verified
Kangxi Emperor's Other Quotes
Remission of taxes is the foremost virtue of government.
Westerners have helped me reform the calendar and have cast cannon for the army; recognising their sincerity, I will not prohibit their preaching.
When I had reigned ten years, I never imagined reaching twenty. At twenty I dared not hope for thirty or forty. Now I have reigned sixty-one.