Peng Sunyu 彭孫遹

P'êng Sun-yü 彭孫遹 (T. 駿孫 H. 羨門), 1631-1700, scholar, calligrapher, and official, was a native of Hai-yen, Chekiang. He was made a chin-shih in 1659, and twenty years later was summoned to compete in the special examination known as po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ 博學宏詞 which was held on April 11, 1679. He took first honors among the fifty candidates who passed the examination. A total of 188 scholars had been summoned to take it. Of this number thirty-six declined, pleaded illness, or were prevented by death from competing; and 102 failed. Of the fifty who passed, twenty-three were from Kiangsu, thirteen from Chekiang, five from Chihli, three from Anhwei, two from Kiangsi, and one each from Shênsi, Honan, Shantung, and Hupei.

After several promotions P'êng Sun-yü rose in 1688 to a sub-chancellorship in the Grand Secretariat, and in the following spring was especially commissioned to pay sacrificial honors at the tomb of Confucius in Shantung. Like all of the scholars who passed the po-hsüeh hung-tz'ŭ examination of 1679, he had a share in the compilation of the History of the Ming Dynasty (Ming-shih), assisting also in the preparation of the official account of the suppression of the Sanfan Rebellion (see under Wu San-kuei), entitled P'ing-ting San-ni fang-lüeh (see under Han T'an). For a time he was Director of the State Historiographer's Office 國史館. He retired from official life in 1697. When, two years later, Emperor Shêng-tsu was on his third tour of the South a tablet, inscribed by the imperial hand, was bestowed upon P'êng as a token of extraordinary favor. The inscription, reading Sung-kuei t'ang 松桂堂 (The Hall of the Pine and the Cassia.), appears in the title of his collected works, Sung-kuei t'ang ch'uan chi (全集). This work, in 37 chüan, was printed by his son, P'êng Ching-tsêng 彭景曾 in 1743. As a poet the name of P'êng Sun-yü was linked with that of his great contemporary, Wang Shih-chên [q.v.]. He was especially praised for his tz'ŭ or poems in irregular metre.

[1/489/14b;3/59/31a;20/1/00 (portrait); 29/2/9b; 32/2/la; Hai-yen hsien chih (1877) 16/8b; Ssŭ-k'u 173/5a.]

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Peng Sunyu 彭孫遹 [33922] RM, p. 1150. Zhejiang TZ, 112.20a. 《清代人物生卒年表》定其生卒年為崇禎4年~康熙39年。 【參考《清代人物生卒年表》#22035.】

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彭孫遹，字駿孫，海鹽人。父期生，明唐王時官太僕卿，死贛州。長子孫貽以毀卒，孫遹其少子也。順治十六年進士，授中書。素工詞章，與王士禎齊名，號曰「彭王」。康熙十八年，開博學鴻儒科，詔中外諸臣廣搜幽隱，備禮敦勸，無論已仕未仕，徵詣闕下，月餼太倉米。明年三月朔，召試太和殿。發賦、詩題各一，學士院給官紙，光祿布席，賜宴體仁閣下。於是天子親擢孫遹一等一名，授編修。

自孫遹外，其籍隸浙江者，又有錢塘汪霦，秀水徐嘉炎、朱彝尊，平湖陸葇，海寧沈珩，仁和沈筠、吳任臣、邵遠平，遂安方象瑛、毛升芳，蕭山毛奇齡，鄞陳鴻績，凡十三人。江蘇二十三人，曰：上元倪燦，寶應喬萊，華亭王頊齡、吳元龍，無錫秦松齡、嚴繩孫，武進周清原，宜興陳維崧，長洲馮勖、汪琬、尤侗、范必英，吳錢中諧，儀真汪楫，淮安邱象隨，吳江潘耒、徐釚，太倉黃與堅，常熟周慶會，山陽李鎧、張鴻烈，上海錢金甫，江陰曹禾。直隸五人，曰：大興張烈，東明袁佑，宛平米漢雯，獲鹿崔如岳，任丘龐塏。安徽三人，曰：宣城施閏章、高詠，望江龍燮。江西二人，曰：臨川李來泰，清江黎騫。陝西一人，曰富平李因篤。河南一人，曰睢州湯斌。山東一人，曰諸城李澄中。湖北一人，曰黃岡曹宜圃。凡五十人，皆以翰林入史館。其列二等者，亦多知名之士，稱極盛焉。

孫遹歷官吏部侍郎，充經筵講官。明史久未成，特命為總裁，賜專敕，異數也。年七十，致仕歸，御書「松桂堂」額賜之，遂以名其集。