Abstract: The research on the native place of CHEN Yuanguang in the past thirty years has accumulated lots of achievements, but there is no final conclusion till now. There are five kinds of views about his native place in the historical documents, such as Lingnan, Hedong, Gushi county, Yiyang county, Jieyang county, etc. The research results on this problem make new difficulties on CHEN Yuanguang's life story and native place, so it becomes hard to construct his life story exactly based on current historical documents.