# Sun Chuo

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{{short description|4th century Eastern Jin official and poet}}
thumb|300px|right|The ''Orchid Pavilion Gathering'' as depicted in an 18th-century Japanese painting.

{{family name hatnote|[孫/孙 (Sūn)](/source/Sun_(surname))|lang=Chinese}}

'''Sun Chuo''' ({{CJKV|t=孫綽|s=孙绰|p=Sūn Chuò|w='''Sun Ch'o'''}}) (320-377) was a [Chinese poet](/source/Classical_Chinese_poetry) of the [Six Dynasties poetry](/source/Six_Dynasties_poetry) tradition. He was one of the famous participants of the [Orchid Pavilion Gathering](/source/Orchid_Pavilion_Gathering), along with [Wang Xizhi](/source/Wang_Xizhi), and a large group of other scholar-poets, in 353 CE, in Shan-yin (now part of the modern province of [Zhejiang](/source/Zhejiang)). Sun Chuo is also famous for a ''[fu](/source/Fu_(poetry))'' upon the topic of [Mount Tiantai](/source/Tiantai_Mountain), as well as his pioneering work on [Chinese landscape poetry](/source/Shanshui_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](/source/Sun_Sheng_(Jin_dynasty)); Sun Chu was also a grandson of the [Cao Wei](/source/Cao_Wei) official Sun Zi (孙资).<ref>''Jin Shu'', vols.56 and 82.</ref>

==See also==
*[Classical Chinese poetry forms](/source/Classical_Chinese_poetry_forms)
*[Filial piety](/source/Filial_piety)
*[History of graphic design](/source/History_of_graphic_design)
*[Lantingji Xu](/source/Lantingji_Xu)
*[Orchid Pavilion Gathering](/source/Orchid_Pavilion_Gathering)
*[Six Dynasties poetry](/source/Six_Dynasties_poetry)

==Notes==
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==References==
* Chang, H. C. (1977). ''Chinese Literature 2: Nature Poetry''. (New York: Columbia University Press). {{ISBN|0-231-04288-4}}
* [Yip, Wai-lim](/source/Wai-lim_Yip) (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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Category:Jin dynasty (266–420) poets
Category:Writers from Shaoxing
Category:Poets from Zhejiang

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