Claim: Ouyang Zhan's family had resided for several generations in China’s northernmost province (Harbin, Heilongjiang in China), then, Ouyang Zhan completed the Jinshi degree in 1988, in the year that came to know as the “Year of the dragon”.
Evidence: His family had resided for several generations in the southeast and included magistrates and assistants in Quanzhou who came to service without examination.