Chen Xizu (1767-1820, 1765-1820) was also known as Dunyi, also known as Zhisun, also named Yuxiang, later named Yufang, and also named Yufang. Zhongxian, a native of Xincheng, Jiangxi (now Zhongtian Township, Lichuan County, Jiangxi Province). Official censor. Qing Dynasty scholar and famous calligrapher. When he was young, he and his younger brother Xizeng were classmates with Lu Jiugao, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty. Chen Xizeng, Chen Xizu, and Chen Yongguang are all his proud students. In the fifty-first year of Qianlong's reign (1786), he passed the imperial examination, and in the fifty-fifth year (1790), he passed the Jinshi examination. He ranked seventh in the palace examination. He was appointed as the head of the Ministry of Punishment, promoted to the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, and later transferred to the Ministry of Personnel, and was appointed as the censor of Zhejiang Road.
Chen Xizu came from a distinguished family and was the great-grandson of Chen Dao (1707-1760, courtesy name Shaozhu, nickname Ningzhai, a writer and Neo-Confucianist in the Qing Dynasty). "Jiangxi Tongzhi" of the Republic of China records: "Chen Dao, a Jinshi of the Qing Dynasty, had his son Shouzhong and Shouyu. During the Qianlong period, he took the provincial examination together, Sun Guan, Yongguang, and Chun Guan, and his great-grandsons Xizu, Xizeng, and Lanxiang. During the Qianjiadao period, A family with seven Jinshi, Jiuxiang ranking, is the first in the city, and is called a distinguished family." His younger brother Chen Xizeng (1770-1820, courtesy name Jizheng, alias Xuexiang), was the minister of the Ministry of Government and Industry. Calligrapher of Qing Dynasty.