Although Chen Benshen, the eighth Chen, is not a big official among the descendants of Chen, he is only the magistrate of Ji 'an Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if Ming Chengzu later promoted him to a senior position, he only praised him for treating yin with nearly three articles, but he was very famous. In the Ming history, he was included in the biographies of officials. "Ming Shi" spoke highly of him, saying that he was an official "combining leniency with severity, so that no one would know how to control the people with false power ... and Xian 'an County"; In the Qing Dynasty, his deeds were also recorded in Yinxian Tongzhi and literature records, praising him for "being in the county for 18 years, and his family had no money left ... Since he came back, people in Ji 'an have missed him so much and their families have blessed him. Zheng Dechu, Li Xian and other temples worship it. " He managed a well-known thief-infested Ji 'an prefecture with poor people as "one county is safe", and the people paid attention to propriety, honesty and shame, went to court to promote education, built water conservancy projects, and lived a stable and prosperous life. As the saying goes, three years to clear the magistrate, 100 thousand snowflakes and silver. Chen Benshen became an official and magistrate in Beijing in 18, but his family still had no money. He is indeed a very capable and honest official.

Chen Benshen was smart and studious since childhood. 13 years old, the first scholar, the fifth son of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1408), won the "Zhejiang Book Award". Among the new Jinshi selected by the imperial court, the learned scholar was selected to study for four years when he entered the secret cabinet to compile Yongle Dadian, and later served as the head of the punishment department in Yongle Renchen (14 12). At that time, Han Guang, a thief in Beijing, killed people. The government couldn't catch him, so it caught 18 innocent people and put them in prison to make amends. Chen Benshen designed and captured Han Guang, so that 18 was released without charge. Chen Benshen's intelligence and ability won the appreciation of the emperor, and he was promoted to be the minister of punishments (from seven grades to six grades). During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, nine counties in Jiangxi, such as Ji 'an, Suzhou, Changzhou, Wenzhou and Qiongzhou, were "difficult to deal with complicated dramas", with domestic thieves rampant and government affairs almost paralyzed. The emperor ordered his ministers to "train talented officials carefully." Yang Shiqi, the prime minister at that time, recommended Chen Benshen to the imperial court, promoted Chen Benshen and others as the magistrate (the fourth product), and issued an imperial decree to let them "act cheaply" and "take office". Among these people, Chen Benshen, the minister of punishments, was promoted to the magistrate of Ji 'an Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, Mo Yu, a doctor of Ministry of Industry, was promoted to the magistrate of Changzhou Prefecture, He was promoted to the magistrate of Lin 'an Prefecture, and Lang Zhongxu, the magistrate of the household department. He was promoted to be the magistrate of Qiongzhou, and these people later became a generation of famous ministers. At that time, Yang Shiqi also recommended the 7th Cai Zhou of Chua's in Panhuoqiao, Yinxian as the magistrate of Yugan County, Jiangxi Province. Cai Zhou's The Voice of the Office made Chen Hengjing's Zhou Jinting and Pan Huocai's? At that time, Xu Tang's reputation in Ningbo increased greatly, and he became a "famous family with Yin surname" and "the surname of Xiandong". Ming Xuande Geng Xu (1430) and Chen Benshen took office in Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province with imperial edict. In the imperial edict, Chen Benshen was allowed to say that "incompetent officials below the vassal level can violate the law, and their subordinate officials and county gentry can be arrested and dealt with if they are guilty", which gave him great power. The first important thing that Chen Benshen did after he took office was to "fight bandits and protect the people". Because he knows that without a stable social environment, nothing else can be done. At that time, there were 19 bandits in Ji 'an, including Peng Tuan, ten of whom were dragons and nine were tigers. They ran wild in the countryside, burning and looting, and no one dared to ask. After Chen Benshen took office, he turned a blind eye to these gangsters to show leniency and sent people to make friends with them privately. After a long time, these gangsters gradually eliminated their vigilance against the government. One day, Chen Benshen gave a banquet in the backyard to invite them. He had sent someone to dig a deep pit under the bandit's seat in advance, fill it with quicklime, and put boards on it for camouflage. During the dinner, the board was suddenly dismantled, and the bandits fell into the pit, blindfolded by lime. Chen Benshen beheaded the bandits immediately after he caught them, and dragged their bodies out of the government gate for public display. First, "a county is shocked", and then "the people celebrate each other." In Yongfeng near Pandashan, Lean and Ji 'an, a thief named Zeng gathered more than 10,000 people to endanger the people. Chen Benshen first sent people to ambush, then designed an ambush to lure the enemy, smashed the bandits, captured and beheaded the bandit leader Zeng. After the bandits were pacified, the social order in Ji 'an was fundamentally improved. After the stability of the situation, Chen Ben attached great importance to education, promoted rites and music, set up learning halls, established righteousness and loyalty temples, and restored some effective and long-abandoned government measures; On the other hand, we also vigorously build water conservancy projects, build dikes to protect water and develop agricultural production. For the official, he "doesn't care about the outline, opens the French Open wide and shares the interest with the people". Ordinary people encounter grievances, "even a three-foot man can talk to him." After several years of governance, no trial will be held. When there is a dispute between people, they are called to the backyard before it collapses, so that they can argue right and wrong and clarify right and wrong, so that they can go home without sitting in court. After a long time, the people "feel ashamed and go to court", and for a while "the county official is not as good as the current management". Chen Benshen served as Ji 'an magistrate for nine years. Traditionally, he should go to Beijing for pilgrimage and report to the court for promotion. The people of Ji 'an knew that the late leader had gone to Beijing and asked the court to let Chen Benshen be re-elected. Yang Shiqi, the prime minister, also asked the emperor. The emperor rewarded Chen Benshen, gave him a banquet in the Imperial Palace, presented him with a poem "Spring in the Woods" and a song "Song of Solicitation", promoted him to be a doctor in China, praised Yin, and returned to Ji 'an with three salaries. Yang Shiqi also presented a poem: "Thousands of people outside Luozhou are waiting for God to return." After nine years of education and governance, there were fewer lawsuits after returning to office. Ji 'an's people will invite him to the wedding reception. Chen Benshen often asks his entourage to take back some banquets when he goes back to the house for dinner? Bait, when you meet children playing on the road, will you put these? Bait distribution, competition? Bait children are often surrounded by official cars, and Chen Benshen is also very happy. Nine years passed before I knew it. Until one day I heard the joy of getting married near the official residence, Chen Benshen sighed and said, "This girl was still nursing when I took office. Now I can get married, and I should go back to my hometown. " When Ji 'an people learned that Chen Benshen was going to retire and return to his hometown, they all cried in front of the horse. Chen Benshen was very moved and said to everyone, "Even if I retire, I will come back and say goodbye to everyone." When he arrived in Beijing, the emperor gave him a gift to spend his old age and return home. Thinking of the agreement with Ji 'an elder, Chen Ben returned to Ji 'an and bid farewell to Ji 'an elder. It took a year to return to China. When I left Ji 'an, the ship that saw me off was sailing for dozens of miles, and a passing suggestion expressed great surprise at this scene. After Chen Benshen left Ji 'an, the people of Ji 'an "wished the dead at home", and later specially built the "Hou Xian Temple" to commemorate him. People are still offering sacrifices to him until a hundred years later.

After returning to his hometown of Hengjing, Chen Benshen built a stone pavilion on the roadside where he lived to worship the "imperial edict" given to him by the emperor. Therefore, in the past, all civil and military officials had to "get off the sedan chair and get off the military attache" when passing through the Jingjing "Pavilion", which was very glorious. After returning to his hometown, Chen Benshen was very concerned about the life of his hometown elders and the agricultural harvest. Because of the inconvenience of old age, I built a floor in my residence and often went upstairs to see the crops. In order not to block the old man's sight, everyone built the house in front of him lower. This is why a row of houses along the river in front of Hengjing trunk line is lower than other places. Chen Benshen's residence is clean. History books and county annals all praised him for "no money left at home" after retirement. Every day, he and several elders in nearby villages and towns recommend them to travel, sing poems and paint, so they are called "Five Elders". Later, deeply feeling that the Chen family in Hengjing did not have a complete "genealogy" for hundreds of years, he created and revised the "Chen Family Tree in Yinxian County" in Meishan, Sichuan Province, which made a complete written record of the Chen family history in Hengjing for nearly 900 years since the establishment of Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty. Chen Benshen also built a flower bed about 1.6 meters high and 20 meters long in front of his yard. In the middle, a rare peony with carved stone railings was planted, which was brought back from Ji 'an, Jiangxi. On both sides of the peony, there are two "Yutang flowers" with purple flowers and white flowers. There is a laurel tree in the east, the trunk needs two people to hug, and there is a wintersweet tree in the west with sparse branches. Taken together, these flowers mean "Yutang is rich". Every flowering period, hundreds of peonies bloom towards the ancestral temple; Jingui Qiuxiang, you can smell the flowers from a distance; Winter wintersweet is proud of the snow and smells good. For hundreds of years, this place has been a scene of Shang Yong, and scholars have chanted it. Up to now, famous scholars have written poems about peony, such as "Shang Yong Shou is the longest, Ji 'an satrap is a famous man", and Yong scholars have written "Ji 'an satrap Chen Gong Peony" and so on. It is a great pity that these precious flowers and trees, the whole flower bed and the stone pavilion dedicated to the "imperial edict" were destroyed and demolished by later generations and built their own houses.

After Chen Benshen retired, he lived in Jingjing for 12 years, and went to Ming Yingzong Tianshun Chen Geng (1460) at the age of 8/kloc-0. He has a son, Chen, two daughters, three grandchildren and two granddaughters, originally from Zhou and Li Sheng. The tomb is located in the north of the original Qichi Temple. In 1950s, the cemetery was demolished together with Shichi Temple because a special farm was built. Because Chen Benshen's tomb has been handed down from generation to generation as a "golden hook hanging hole", later generations think it must be a rich man's tomb. As a result, after opening the tomb, they only saw a clear water hole and removed a stone. According to Yinxian Tongzhi, it was written by Amin Huang Runyu, and now it is stored in Shichi Temple on the bank of Yu Lang.