On the other hand, because seven-member RCAs known as "seven worthies 'associations" are popular in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces, people there believe the RCA system has been handed down from the "Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove" of the Chin dynasty (265-420 AD).
江蘇、安徽等地則因流行七人輪會的七賢會，人們認為合會是晉代竹林七賢所遺的一種制度。