Chou Chin asked his age and how many times he had taken the imperial examinations.Kneeling before Chou Chin,Fan Chin revealed that he was in fact 54 years old but he had given his age as 30.Starting at the age of twenty,he had taken the imperial examination more than twenty times.Then Chou Chin asked him,"Why haven't you passed the examinations?" Fan Chin answered," Because my poor essays have never been accepted by the examiners."
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