title: 1684 in China
text: # 1684 in China
  
  Events from the year 1684 in China.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Kangxi Emperor (23rd year)
  
  ## Events
  
  * The Kangxi Emperor lifts the haijin prohibition on sea trade, allowing foreigners to enter Chinese ports in 1684
  * 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.
  * The first mention of chili peppers in local gazettes in Hunan. They would later become a staple of Hunanese cuisine.
  * Sino-Russian border conflicts
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Yinju (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 (Chinese: 木庵性瑫; pinyin: Mù'ān Xìngtāo; Japanese Mokuan Shōtō) (1611–1684) a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Yinyuan Longqi to Japan in 1654
  