Ming · Poet and Hermit

Sun Yiyuan 孫一元

Born c. AD 1474

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sun Yiyuan was a Poet and Hermit.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Taichu	太初	Taichu
Alternate name	Man of Taibai Mountain	太白山人	Taibai Shanren

Life and dates

Death

Age 37
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 142

Age

37
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 142

Attested activity

AD 1510 to AD 1520 苕溪五隱
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 298, passages 140, 142

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Daughter of Sun Yiyuan
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 142
Spouse of Zhang, wife of Sun Yiyuan (張氏)
wife 妻
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 142

Origins and identity

possibly clansman of Prince of Anhua
Person Prince of Anhua (安化王)
Uncertain · History of Ming 298, passage 134

Places and affiliations

At Qin 秦 · Relation Self reported
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 132
At Mount Daochang 道場山 · Relation Buried at
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 143
At Mount Taibai 太白 · Relation Resided
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 133
Organization Five Recluses of Tiaoxi 苕溪五隱 · Relation Member of
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 140

Learning and skills

Skill poetry 詩 · Level skilled
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 135

Events and relationships

Relation Visited by · Person Fei Hong (費宏)
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 136

Source notes

clansman of Prince of Anhua who changed name
Field identity · Witness or-said
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 134

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 9 passages

張介福倪瓚徐舫楊恆陳洄楊引吳海劉閔楊黼孫一元沈周陳繼儒 Zhang Jiefu, Ni Zan, Xu Fang, Yang Heng, Chen Hui, Yang Yin, Wu Hai, Liu Min, Yang Fu, Sun Yiyuan, Shen Zhou, and Chen Jiru

孫一元 Sun Yiyuan

孫一元，字太初，不知何許人，問其邑里，曰：「我秦人也。」 Sun Yiyuan, courtesy name Taichu, was of unknown origin. When asked where he came from, he said: "I am a man of Qin."

嘗棲太白之巔，故號太白山人。 He once lived on the summit of Mount Taibai and therefore styled himself the Man of Taibai Mountain.

一元姿性絕人，善為詩，風儀秀朗，蹤跡奇譎，烏巾白帢，攜鐵笛鶴瓢，遍游中原，東逾齊、魯，南涉江、淮，歷荊抵吳越，所至賦詩，談神仙，論當世事，往往傾其座人。 Yiyuan's gifts were extraordinary. He was skilled in poetry, his bearing elegant and bright, his tracks strange and uncanny. In a black cap and white headcloth, carrying an iron flute and a wine gourd, he traveled throughout the central plains, east beyond Qi and Lu, south across the Yangtze and Huai, through Jing to Wu and Yue. Wherever he went he composed poetry, spoke of immortals, and discussed affairs of the age, often overwhelming everyone seated with him.

送之及門，了不酬答。 When Yiyuan escorted him to the door, he made no reply at all.

珫因招一元入社，稱「苕溪五隱」。 Qiong therefore invited Yiyuan into their circle and called them the "Five Recluses of Tiaoxi."

一元買田溪上，將老焉。 Yiyuan bought fields beside the stream and planned to grow old there.

舉人施侃雅善一元，妻以妻妹張氏，生一女而卒，年止三十七。 The juren Shi Kan was on excellent terms with Yiyuan and gave him his wife's younger sister, née Zhang, in marriage. She bore a daughter and then died. Yiyuan was only thirty-seven.