Shi Dacheng's Folk Custom

Shi Dacheng was the first scholar in Zhejiang in Qing Dynasty. Before he won the championship, there was a saying among Zhejiang people that the champion of Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty was "beginning with history and ending with the bell." When he was in palace examination, the examination paper was drafted as the third place by the examiner. The emperor read it, praised his calligraphy, and said, "This man must be a gentleman with neat regular script", so he was appointed as the champion. Coincidentally, the last champion in Zhejiang was Zhong, which surprisingly verified the saying that "history begins and the bell ends".