Sun Chuo (孫綽 Sūn Chuò) (320-377) was a Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties poetry tradition. He was one of the famous participants of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, along with Wang Xizhi, and a large group of other scholar-poets, in 353 CE, in Shan-yin (now part of the modern province of Zhejiang). Sun Chuo is also famous for a fu upon the topic of Mount Tiantai, as well as his pioneering work on Chinese landscape poetry He was considered the foremost man of letters of his day.

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晉室東渡後，移居會稽（今浙江紹興）。孫綽早年寫有《遂初賦》、《遊天台山賦》。《詩品》稱孫「彌善恬淡之詞」。襲父爵為長樂侯，歷官太學博士、尚書郎，與名僧竺道潛、支遁有往來。累官至廷尉卿，領著作。孫綽很滿意自己的《遊天台山賦》，曾對范啟說：「卿試擲地，要作金石聲。」

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