Qianlong nine years (1744). In the 13th year of Qianlong (1748), he was a scholar and a candidate of magistrate of a county. He refused to be an official on the grounds that his parents were old and had no brothers or sisters. After the emperor ordered the imperial edict, he chose it and refused to go. Serve your parents at home with peace of mind and bury yourself in reading. My father is in business and his family is well off. He assisted his father in setting up a charity in the countryside. Set up 2,000 mu of beneficial farmland to help the poor, so that "there is someone to support the study, someone to support the lonely and sick, and someone to help the wedding and funeral." Donate 2,200 silver to pay tuition for Xujiang Academy. In 24 years, he helped the magistrate to establish Lichuan Academy, donated tuition fees and taught here for many years. Build bridges, pavilions, distribute coffins and medicines, buy and transport grain at the orders of the father in times of famine, mobilize users' accounts to save hunger, and persuade or force some grain merchants who hoard grain and keep silent to participate in relief.
Chen Dao was strict with himself all his life. He was "lazy from childhood". Learning is based on practice. I often communicate with Xia, Zhu Gan, Tu Deng and Tu Rui, and have been appreciated by some wise men and doctors. Qianlong died at the age of 54 in the twenty-fifth year.
Most of the articles are lecture notes, and the style of writing is mellow and indifferent, full of true meaning. Poetry often reveals his dissatisfaction with the society, reflecting his antagonistic feelings of not being integrated with the times and customs. I tried to annotate the Five Biographies of the Spring and Autumn Period and compile the Textual Research Series of Jiangxi, but they all ended in vain. After Chen Dao's death, his son Chen Shoucheng and his classmate Lu Jiugao collected and arranged his manuscripts into a collection of Ningzhai Legacy (6 volumes and 2 volumes of poetry), which was published by Siku Library as Ningdaozhai Collection, and the Biography of Qing History was published in the world. Father Chen Spyker (1682- 1752), name. During the years of Yu Shun and Kang, he moved to Nakata (now Lichuan) to abandon Confucianism and engage in bamboo and wood business. After hard work, he finally became a wealthy businessman. However, his only son, Chen Dao, did not inherit his father's career, but devoted himself to his own. Although Chen Dao didn't embark on the official career in the end, he started charity with his father in Nakata and actively participated in local public affairs, which played a great role in Chen's rapid rise in Nakata and the rise of local families. Since Chen Dao, Chen's family was well-off, and a large number of children became famous in the imperial examination and became dignitaries. "Jiangxi Tongzhi of the Republic of China" records: "Chen Dao, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, kept his reputation. During the Qianlong period, they took part in the township examination together, and during the years of Sun Guan, Yong Guang, Chun Guan and his great-grandson Xizu, Heezen, Lan Xiang and Ganjiadao, they were seven scholars, ranking first in the nine townships and the highest in the city, known as famous families. "
Chen Xizu (1767- 1820, one for 1765- 1820), also known as Sun Yang, was renamed Yu Fang, and the other was Yu Fang, who had been in Qianlong for 55 years (1). Scholars and famous calligraphers in Qing Dynasty.
Chen Xizeng (1770- 1820), the word set Zheng, assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry. Calligrapher of Qing Dynasty.