"Silence is better than sound" is the principle of Zhang Yisheng's belief. This sentence comes from Huang Valley: "It is better to win a hundred battles than to win a hundred battles;" It is better to be silent than to say anything. " Although there are similar famous sayings, such as silence is golden, they are not as consistent as Zhang's.
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"It is better to say nothing than to be silent." Zhang's motto during the reign of Kangxi was:
Zhang, a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was born as a scholar. Starting from his father Zhang Ying, three generations of grandparents and grandchildren served in the Qing Dynasty.
In the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi (1700), he was a Jinshi, changed to Jishi Shu, was allowed to review, entered the South School, and entered the power center. Kangxi dynasty, the official to the left assistant minister of punishments, rectified the bureaucracy. After Yong Zhengdi acceded to the throne, he successively served as the minister of rites, the minister of household affairs, the minister of official affairs, the university student of Baohe Hall (cabinet record) and the minister of military aircraft, thus perfecting the military system. After emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, the monarch and his subjects became suspicious, and the evening scenery was bleak and the officials returned to their hometown.
Gan Long was twenty years old (1755) and died at home. At the age of eighty-four, posthumous title was "Wen He" and enjoyed the ancestral temple. He was the only minister of the Han nationality in the Qing Dynasty with ancestral temple qualification.
Zhang has successively served as the editor of the Journey to the West and the Record of Shuozhou, the supplement officer of the provincial records of the holy ancestors in the Qing Dynasty, the social director of the History of the Ming Dynasty, the History of the Four Dynasties, the Qing Huidian and the Records of Sejong.