Does "Chen Shouting" in "Big Dyeing House" really exist in history?

The "Chen Shouting" in The Big Dyeing House does exist in history.

Chen Shouting, nicknamed Chen, is a role in the TV series Dyeing House, played by an actor. The prototype in reality is Chen Liting, the grandfather of the author Chen Jie (confirmed by the author and the author's younger brother). The dyehouse he founded is the predecessor of Jinan No.1 Dyeing and Weaving Factory.

Chen Shouting, an orphan in TV series, learned the skill of dyeing cloth through hard work. When he was young, he went to Qingdao to start a business with his partner Lu Jiaju, and then went to Jinan to open a dyeing factory, which reflected his outstanding business genius and patriotic feelings in the development of dyeing cloth.

Chen Shouting's role image:

In The Big Dyeing House, "the grace of dripping water, the grace of gushing water" is vividly displayed in Chen Shouting. He can bow down to the Miao family every year for a white flour bun; He can die for half a baked wheat cake and uncle Suozi's pension. Treat relatives and friends, staff, strangers and even opponents like this.

He will beat and scold workers when they make mistakes, but he can share joys and sorrows with them, give them elbows, put materials, and treat them as relatives. Workers disabled by work-related injuries are not abandoned, but used to guard the factory gates.

Treat refugees and take them in according to their specialties. He gave money to help rickshaw drivers he didn't know. All this actually stems from his begging in Zhoucun when he was young, the help of strangers, and his help to strangers. In fact, it is a continuation of his thought of "dripping water, a rising tide lifts all boats".