明清时期，靖江曾在今靖城地区先后营建过陈公生词、名宦祠、忠义祠，泰兴县亦曾在西部界河旁的曲霞镇太平圩建造过陈公堂。据资料记载，这四所名祠供奉的同一尊神，却是明末靖江知县陈函辉。为什么靖泰两县对这位陈公如此敬仰，陈公为何能死后成神？三十六年前，笔者至泰兴经 During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingjiang had set up Chen Gongsheng’s Ci in the present Jingcheng area. The Ming Temple, Zhongyi Temple and Taixing County also built Chen Gongtang in the Taiping Fair of Qu Xia Town in the western border. According to the records, the same deity worshiped by these four shrines and temples is Chen Conghui, a magistrate of Jingjiang in the late Ming Dynasty. Why Jingtai two counties respect for the Chen Gong, Chen Gong died after becoming God? Thirty-six years ago, the author to Taixing