{{short description|4th century Eastern Jin official and poet}} thumb|300px|right|The ''Orchid Pavilion Gathering'' as depicted in an 18th-century Japanese painting.
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'''Sun Chuo''' ({{CJKV|t=孫綽|s=孙绰|p=Sūn Chuò|w='''Sun Ch'o'''}}) (320-377) was a Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties poetry tradition. He was one of the famous participants of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, along with Wang Xizhi, and a large group of other scholar-poets, in 353 CE, in Shan-yin (now part of the modern province of Zhejiang). Sun Chuo is also famous for a ''fu'' upon the topic of Mount Tiantai, as well as his pioneering work on Chinese landscape poetry<ref>Chang, 9-10</ref> He was considered the foremost man of letters of his day.<ref>Herbert Allen Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, p. 688.</ref>
==Poetry== One of his well-known poems was simply titled "Orchid Pavilion".<ref>Yip, 136-137</ref>
==Family== As a grandson of the Jin official Sun Chu (孙楚), Sun Chuo was also a cousin of Jin official/historian Sun Sheng; Sun Chu was also a grandson of the Cao Wei official Sun Zi (孙资).<ref>''Jin Shu'', vols.56 and 82.</ref>
==See also== *Classical Chinese poetry forms *Filial piety *History of graphic design *Lantingji Xu *Orchid Pavilion Gathering *Six Dynasties poetry
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== * Chang, H. C. (1977). ''Chinese Literature 2: Nature Poetry''. (New York: Columbia University Press). {{ISBN|0-231-04288-4}} * Yip, Wai-lim (1997). ''Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres ''. (Durham and London: Duke University Press). {{ISBN|0-8223-1946-2}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sun, Chuo}} Category:Jin dynasty (266–420) poets Category:Writers from Shaoxing Category:Poets from Zhejiang