From Sima Qian's Historical Records, Volume 48, Eighteen Families in Chen She, Chen She tasted plowing with others when he was young, and he was disappointed for a long time, saying, "Wealth never forgets." The mediocre man smiled and replied, "If you are a mediocre farmer, how can you be rich?" Chen She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, sparrows know the ambition of swans!"
Related story: When Chen Sheng was a servant, he said to his companions, Don't forget each other, and his companions laughed at him for not having this fate. Later, Chen Sheng really became king, and the old man who farmed together remembered his words of "forgetting wealth" and went to see him.
The Creative Background of The Chen She Family
Sima Qian's "Historical Records Biography of Taishigong" preface said: "I was fascinated, and I was fascinated by Zhou and became in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Qin dynasty lost its political power, prospered, the princes rebelled, and the Qin clan died. At the end of the world, it is self-involved. It is the eighteenth of the Chen She family. "
It means: Jie and Zhou lost the kingship, Tang and Wu rose, Zhou lost the kingship, and Chunqiu was written. Qin lost the way to rule and launched a righteous act against Qin. The governors rebelled in succession and eventually destroyed Qin. The end of the Qin Dynasty in the world began with Chen She's attack. So he wrote The Eighteenth Chen She Family.