A Self Portrait

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History

 

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Julie G

 

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March 15, 2014

 

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University

 

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A

 

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One captain said “It seemed as if I were a god, to kill so many stags.” Emperor Kang-Hsi may have been a great hunter and he may have thought of himself as a great hunter but he was a modest one as it also show on page 9 second paragraph when he answers “I often call for the stags and trap them in the ring; what is so god-like about killing a lot of them?” He kills for sport but mostly to feed himself and his men...
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Kang-Hsi was a great hunter as well as a modest and fair one whose kills which may have been many were needed to support his campaigns. Kang-Hsi was a great ruler but was he a superstitious ruler? In some cases he was superstitious but in other ways he was far from it. An example of him being superstitious was the fact that on page 59 Kang-Hsi talks about believing in fortune tellers and that “if he says you’ll be rich, can you sit still and let the wealth come?” “If he offers you a life without misfortune, can you be reckless without fear?” “Or be debauched without harm because he says you’ll live long without illness?” On page 129 when referring to his son Yin-jeng, Kang-Hsi said “he saw restless spirits, and was scared he didn’t know where to turn...
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