On the first day of the Lunar New Year, villagers visited each other to exchange New Year's greetings, and Chen Shi also got up early to pay his respects to the elders in the village, offering a few auspicious words.
The young people in the village were also beaming with joy, greeting Chen Shi as "Master Jieyuan" in hopes of catching a whiff of the literary aura from the divine Wenquxing star.
— The old men and women in the village said that Chen Shi was the incarnation of the divine Wenquxing star from the heavens, which is why he was able to pass the imperial examination. There was also a rumor that on the day Chen Shi was born, his mother dreamt of an old lady chasing a group of rabbits, and one of the rabbits jumped into her belly, a clear sign of a celestial being descending to earth.
