Chen (1848- 1935) was born in Luozhou, Min County, Fuzhou City (now Luozhou Town, Cangshan District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province). Minister and scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, Chen's great-grandson, minister of punishments.
Tongzhi for seven years (1868), admitted as a scholar, and was awarded the post of editor and lecturer of Jishi Shu Hanlin Academy. Dare to speak and dare to remonstrate. Together with Zhang Zhidong, Zhang Peilun and Bao Ting, he became a "four remonstrances of Shu Ting", became a political scholar in Jiangxi, and moved to a bachelor's degree in cabinet and assistant minister of rites. After the Sino-French War, the elected Tang Jiong and Xu were incompetent and demoted. Go back to your hometown for leisure and develop hometown education. Xuantongyuannian (1909) was transferred to the capital, and he served as the director of Li Xue Museum, the cabinet adviser to Bi Deyuan, and the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhenghongqi Han Army. He became the teacher of Xuan Tong Emperor Puyi and supervised the revision of A Record of Dezong. Calligraphy, studied under Huang Tingjian, is also good at painting pine.