Chen Zicheng was born in Changle, Fuzhou. Fujian Tongzhi has its characters. At the age of eight, he entered school. At the age of seventeen, Zhang Yangang, a disciple of the Qing Palace in Longhushan, went to the palace in the west of Fuzhou for seven days because his parents didn't want him to travel far. He went to Longhushan to see Master Zhang, and Master Zhang asked him to follow. Dade Daochang was nine years old (1305). In the seventh year of Yanyou (1320), he made a pilgrimage with his late master Shi Tian. And return, leading to empty palace. In the first year of Taiding (1324), the pilgrimage to Kyoto was resumed. In the third year (1326), Xuanwen Ningtai, a master of Lingwu, and Quanzhou Road, the abbot of Guangxiao Temple, were sealed. In the second year of Tong Yuan (1334), he was sent to Beijing. In the third year (1335), I went back to the temple to clear the palace. He entered Beijing in the second year of Zhiyuan (1336), but he still put forward some views on filial piety. In three years (1337), he was awarded numerous views on happiness, knowledge and things by Wen Tai, Gao Shi and Longhushan.