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Ch'ên Ch'iao 陳喬 (T. 景山). Died A.D. 975. A worthy of the Sung dynasty, who reached his 60th year before he took his degree; in honour of which event a literary friend gave him his daughter in marriage. Upon this, Ch'ên Ch'iao is said to have composed the following lines: ​

They say that P'êng Tsu lived eight hundred years,
Compared with which I'm but a little child.

Unfortunately, however, for the story, this verse occurs in the poetry of the T'ang dynasty.