Official Biography of Qing Duan: Yu Chenglong's Approach to Becoming an Official

"The Official Biography of Qing Duan: Yu Chenglong's Way of Being an Official" focuses on the legendary life of Yu Chenglong, "the most honest official in the world". It takes the 23 years of his career as an official from the age of 45 to the death of illness at the age of 68 as the main line, and vividly outlines an official story. Officials who came from a poor family in Luliang, with the sincerity of "never seeking food and clothing as their ambition, and vowing not to ignore the principles of heaven and conscience", in the turbulent times of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, they successively served as the magistrate of Luocheng, the magistrate of Hezhou, and the governor of Liangjiang. The book not only describes in detail his outstanding political achievements in controlling chaos and reclamation in Luocheng, detecting theft and solving cases in Huangzhou, redressing unjust prisons in Fujian, and reorganizing officials in Liangjiang. It also deeply demonstrates his incorruptible character of "planting thorns as gates" and "eclipsing rough grains in a bowl". The book uses official history as the backbone and folk reputation as the flesh. Through vivid stories, it restores a model of an upright official who does not seek personal gain and cares about the common people. It explores his spiritual core that still shines brightly after more than three hundred years. It provides a vivid example for the current understanding of traditional clean government culture and people-oriented thinking.