Ming · Poet and Hermit

Sun Yiyuan 孫一元

Attested AD 1510 - AD 1520

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Sun Yiyuan as a hermit and poet. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Sun Yiyuan	孫一元	Sun Yiyuan
Alternate	Man of Taibai Mountain	太白山人	Taibai Shanren
Courtesy	Taichu	太初	Taichu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:298:s0132

Roles

Hermit
Poet

Life and dates

Death

Age: 37
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0142

Age

Age: 37 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0142

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 苕溪五隱 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1510 · End: AD 1520
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:298:s0140, mingshi:298:s0142

Family

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Parent of Daughter of Sun Yiyuan
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Spouse of Zhang, wife of Sun Yiyuan (張氏)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Origins and identity

Statement: possibly clansman of Prince of Anhua · Person Id: Prince of Anhua (安化王)
Uncertain · mingshi:298:s0134

Places and affiliations

Place: Qin / 秦 · Relation: self-reported
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0132
Place: Mount Daochang / 道場山 · Relation: buried-at
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0143
Place: Mount Taibai / 太白 · Relation: resided
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0133
Organization: Five Recluses of Tiaoxi / 苕溪五隱 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0140

Learning and skills

Skill: poetry / 詩 · Level: skilled
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0135

Events and relationships

Relation: visited-by · Person Id: Fei Hong (費宏)
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0136

Source notes

Field: identity · Statement: clansman of Prince of Anhua who changed name · Witness: or-said
Explicit · mingshi:298:s0134

References in the histories

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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.