Ancient China · Legendary Long-Lived Figure

Peng Zu 彭

Legendary antiquity

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Peng Zu was a Legendary Long-Lived Figure.

Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 127

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Directly stated · Book of Jin 80, passage 127

References in the histories

Book of Jin, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 50: Wang Xizhi · 1 passage

固知一死生為虛誕，齊彭殤為妄作，後之視今，亦猶今之視昔，悲夫！ I know well that to treat life and death as the same is a lie, and to equate the long-lived Peng Zu with a child dead young is sophistry. Future readers will look on our age as we look on the past—how bitter that thought is.