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Rh Shun-t'ien (Peking). During his tenure in Peking there was a flood in that area and his duties increased, being complicated also by movements of troops to Sungaria (see under ). In 1756 he became director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship, and in 1758 was appointed a tutor in the School for Princes (see under ). In the winter of 1763, eighth son of Emperor Kao-tsung, then in ill health, was sent to convalesce in the Hsi yüan 西園, or Western Garden, southwest of the Old Summer Palace, and Ch'ên Chao-lun accompanied him as a tutor. The Library of Congress possesses in manuscript a collection of the prince's poems, entitled Ku-hsün t'ang shih (see under ), in which the prince frequently makes mention of his tutor. Granted leave in 1769, Ch'ên Chao-lun spent more than a year in his native place. He resumed his work at court in the summer of 1770 but died early in the following year.

At various times (1737, 1740, 1751, and 1753) Ch'ên Chao-lun took part in such official compilations as the Shih-lu of Emperor Shih-tsung (see under ) which was completed in 1740; the Ta-Ch'ing hui-tien (see under ), whose third edition was published in 1761; and the Hsü Wên-hsien t'ung-k'ao (see under ) which was printed in 1772. Several times he accompanied Emperor Kao-tsung on imperial hunting expeditions. Many of his poems were written to and in praise of the Emperor or the princes, or to commemorate state occasions. His collected literary works, entitled 紫竹山房集 Tzŭ-chu shan-fang chi, comprising 20 chüan of prose and 12 chüan of verse, were printed by his family. In calligraphy he followed the style of Wang Hsi-chih 王羲之 and was highly praised by such contemporary masters of that art as.

Ch'ên Chao-lun had two younger brothers, Ch'ên Chao-mei 陳兆嵋, and Ch'ên Chao-ch'i 陳兆岐. His two older sons, Ch'ên Yü-wan 陳玉萬 (original ming 玉藻 b. 1723), and Ch'ên Yü-tun 陳玉敦 (b. 1726), were both chü-jên of 1750. Ch'ên Kuei-shêng 陳桂生, a son of Ch'ên Yü-wan, rose in his official career to the governorship of Kiangsu province (1817). The latter's son, Ch'ên Hsien-tsêng 陳憲曾, was a chin-shih of 1822. Ch'ên Yü-tun had two learned daughters. The elder, Ch'ên Tuan-shêng 陳端生, led a dejected life owing to the exile of her husband, surnamed Fan (范). As a result of her unhappy experience she wrote an epic, entitled 再生緣 Tsai-shêng yüan. Although it was unfinished at her death, it was completed by and his wife, Liang Tê-shêng (see under ). In addition to the epic, Ch'ên Tuan-shêng left a collection of poems, entitled 繪影閣集 Hui-ying ko chi. The younger daughter, Ch'ên Ch'ang-shêng 陳長生, married Yeh Shao-k'uei 葉紹楏 , a chin-shih of 1793 and governor of Kwangsi (1817). She, too, left a collection of poems, entitled 繪聲閣詩稿 Hui-shêng ko shih-kao.

[1/311/6b; 3/82/1a; 20/2/00 (portrait); 29/4/5a; 31/1/9b; Nien-p'u by his nephew Ch'ên Yü-shêng 陳玉繩; Chiang Jui-tsao 蔣瑞藻; 小說考證續編 Hsiao-shuo k'ao-chêng hsü-pien (1924) 1/28b; Hummel, A. W., Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1935, p. 187; Ch'ên Yüan-lu 陳元祿 (son of Ch'ên Hsien-tsêng), 十五福堂筆記 Shih-wu-fu t'ang pi-chi in Chüan-ching-lou ts'ung-k'o (see under ).]

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 CH'ÊN Chên-hui 陳貞慧, Jan. 27, 1605–1656, June 11, descendant of the Sung scholar, Ch'ên Fu-liang 陳傅良 , came of a prominent family which migrated from Yung-chia, Chekiang, to I-hsing, Kiangsu. He was the fourth and youngest son of Ch'ên Yü-t'ing 陳于廷, who was a member of the Tung-lin party and a censor noted for his outspoken criticism of government and for his straightforward memorials. When the conflict of the members of the Tung-lin party and those under became irreconcilable, Ch'ên Yü-t'ing and several members of the party, including  and Tso Kuang-tou (see under ) were dismissed (1624) from their posts. At the beginning of the Ch'ung-chên reign-period (1628) Ch'ên Yü-t'ing was reinstated, but was again dismissed in 1632 for his opposition to the punishment of two censors. He returned to his native place where he died three years later.

In his youth Ch'ên Chên-hui studied with his life-long friend, Wu Ying-chi (see under ), at Po-ts'un 亳村, a village about 25 li from I-hsing. He took his licentiate in 1621 but failed in the provincial examination. Although he lacked a high degree he rose to great influence 82