Ancient China · Named Individual

Peng Zu 彭

Peng

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 3
Chapters: 3
Histories: 3

Overview

Peng Zu was a Named Individual.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 216; Book of Liang 36, passage 111; Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 211

Key source chapters

Events and relationships

Model of growing old together
Exemplum · Exemplar
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 216

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Han 117, passage 216; Records of the Grand Historian 1, passage 211

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage

登孔、顥而上下兮，緯群龍之所經，朝貞觀而夕化兮，猶諠己而遺形，若胤彭而偕老兮，訴來哲以通情。 Climb the heights of Confucius and Yan Hui, follow the dragons' tracks, wake to the true pattern by dusk though ego still chatters, shed the shell, and if you walk with Peng Zu into age, leave a thread of feeling for sages yet unborn.

Book of Liang, Chapter 36Volume 36: Kong Xiuyuan; Jiang Ge · 1 passage

延明聞之，乃令革作丈八寺碑並祭彭祖文，革辭以囚執旣久，無復心思。 Yanming then ordered Ge to compose the Zhangba Temple stele and a sacrifice to Peng Zu. Ge refused: long imprisonment had drained his mind.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 1Annals of the Five Emperors · 1 passage

而禹、皋陶、契、后稷、伯夷、夔、龍、倕、益、彭祖自堯時而皆舉用，未有分職。 Yu, Gao Yao, Qi, Hou Ji, Boyi, Kui, Long, Chui, Yi, and Peng Zu had served since Yao’s day without fixed portfolios.