In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), his father Jiang Mingyu died and returned to China to mourn his father. At that time, Zheng Chenggong led an army to attack Nanjing on a large scale, supporting 170 thousand troops and trying to recover the Central Plains. The following year, Guazhou (Jiangdu County) was captured, and the editor's army crossed south to Zhenjiang and took Jinling. Yuan Da of Jintan and Jiang Chao joined hands to strengthen defense, and the county seat was heavily guarded. Feng Ban, a fellow villager and supervisor of Huguang Road, asked for refuge in the city, but they refused. After failing to resist the Qing rebellion, Feng Ban sued the Qing court, which sentenced more than 50 scholars, including Yuan and Jiang, to death. Jiang Chao survived by bribing the government. This is the famous case of "going to Haikou" in the early Qing Dynasty. In the sixth year of Kangxi (1667), the official department promoted Jiang Chao to imperial academy and appointed Shuntian as the prefect to study politics. After he took office, he worked hard to inspire and spared no effort to revive Chinese studies. He personally gave lectures, rewarded the Ministry of Rites, and demanded that "all students in the world should be banned from punishment", which was taken seriously by the Ministry of Rites and issued a document to the provinces for pursuit. After the political rank of Shuntian was full, he began to roam the famous mountains and rivers. Whenever he thinks about his previous life, he often thinks about being born. At the age of 43, he retired from Hanyuan and was allowed to return to Jiangnan. On his way home, he arrived at Qin You (now Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province), and his hometown was just around the corner. Suddenly, he thought of transferring to Nanchi. His son refused to listen to advice, so he bought a boat and went up the river from Nanjing. In the spring of the 11th year of Kangxi (1672), he pretended to be a monk in the Khufu Temple in Emei Mountain, and his dharma name was Zhitong.
In the late spring of the tenth year of Kangxi (167 1), Cai Yurong, the governor of Sichuan who supervised the compilation of the first Sichuan annals in Qing Dynasty, learned that the famous Master Jiang lived in seclusion in Emei Mountain, and sent people to invite him out of the mountain again and again to participate in the compilation work. Chao Jiang's resignation was not exempted, so he went to Chengdu, lived in Jinsha Temple and participated in the compilation of Sichuan Zongzhi. This book, with 36 volumes, was carved in the city woodcut in the 12th year of Kangxi (1673) and is now in Chongqing Library. This book is informative and of high academic value. In the first month of the twelfth year of Kangxi, Jiang Chao wrote a poem before he died: "When apes and cranes meet, the old woman falls into evil dust for no reason. I tried to avoid the heat in the pot, but I turned over from the sea. Fame puppet field, wife skeleton team. Only loved ones do not answer the newspaper, and often wish themselves a benevolent life. " When Jiang Chao lived in seclusion in Emei Mountain, he sent a book to his friend Wang Shizhen, saying, "I am an old monk in Emei, and Wan Li belongs here." When he died, Wang was presiding over the provincial examination in Chengdu and was shocked to hear the bad news. He made a special trip to the tomb of the Chiang family in Luofeng 'an to pay his respects, and wrote a poem of five laws in tears. Poetry cloud:
In the thirty years of the Western Qing Dynasty, after a long illness, he took to the official position again. It suddenly occurred to me that Emei was good, but I really forgot that the Shu Road was difficult to save.
The clouds are clear and powerful, and the air in Chun Xue is very cold. Wan Li is like a buried bone, a natural white jade coffin.