Guo Pu (Chinese: 郭璞; AD 276–324), courtesy name Jingchun (Chinese: 景純; pinyin: Jǐngchún), was a Chinese historian, poet, and writer during the Eastern Jin period, and is best known as one of China's foremost commentators on ancient texts. Guo was a Taoist mystic, geomancer, collector of strange tales, editor of old texts, and erudite commentator. He was the first commentator of the Shan Hai Jing and so probably, with the noted Han bibliographer Liu Xin, was instrumental in preserving this valuable mythological and religious text.[1] Guo Pu was the well educated son of a governor. He was a natural historian and a prolific writer of the Jin dynasty. He is the author of The Book of Burial, the first-ever and the most authoritative source of feng shui doctrine and the first book to address the concept of feng shui in the history of China, making Guo Pu the first person historically to define feng shui, and therefore, Guo Pu is usually called the father of feng shui in China.[2][3]
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^Zhang, Juwen. A Translation of the Ancient Chinese 'The Book of Burial (Zang Shu)' by Guo Pu (276-324). Retrieved 11-07-2007
GuoPu (Chinese: 郭璞; AD 276–324), courtesy name Jingchun (Chinese: 景純; pinyin: Jǐngchún), was a Chinese historian, poet, and writer during the Eastern...
. GuoPu is honoured today by the renaming of West Guo Mountain, where he stood to observe the city, into Guo Gong Mountain. At the bottom of Guo Gong...
Guo Nuwang, First Empress of Cao Wei GuoPu, writer and scholar of the Eastern Jin Guo Rong, Second Emperor of Later Zhou also known as Chai Rong Guo...
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Mount Yaobi (瑤碧)—all in southern China. According to Eastern Jin scholar GuoPu, two different kinds of birds were called zhen: a poisonous, snake-eating...
山海經校注. Liren shuji. ISBN 9789579113359. Fujisawa (1925), pp. 45–46. This GuoPu quote as commentary to Bei Shan Jing is hard to confirm in other secondary...
Huainanzi, Xingtian is called the corpse of Xingcan (形殘之尸). The scholar GuoPu celebrated Xingtian's defiant spirit in an encomium. He mentions the similarity...
Seas is of indeterminate age, yet a perennial favourite. The commentary by GuoPu is subsequent. The Bifang bird is item sixty-nine. The Bifang is described...
four legs and nine tails. — Shanhaijing In chapter 14 of the Shanhaijing, GuoPu, a scholar of the Eastern Jin dynasty, had commented that the "nine-tailed...
Qing Wuzi in the Han dynasty describes it in the Book of the Tomb and GuoPu of the Jin dynasty follows up with a more complete description in The Book...
person calling. The creature was said to live at Honest-head Mountain. GuoPu in his jiangfu said that the Bo-horse was able to walk on water. Another...
Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-52029-851-4. Fujisawa (1925), p. 20. GuoPu (1667). "Di ren guo" 氐人國 [Nation of the Di people]. Tuxiang Shanhaijing xiangzhu 圖像山海經詳註...
the Three Kingdoms Period and later commentated on by Jin dynasty writer GuoPu. Li vastly expanded the Water Classic, doing his own research and fieldwork...
"River Ripple"). GuoPu (d. 324)'s commentary to Part XI glosses jiao as "a type of [long 龍] dragon that resembles a four-legged snake". Guo adds that the...
commanderies. Its authorship was then attributed to Jin dynasty scholar GuoPu. Li Daoyuan's 40-volume, 300,000-character version includes 1252 rivers...
29–74 Behr (1987), pp. 72–73. Behr (1987), pp. 77–78. Pu Yi 1988, p. 132 Pu Yi 1988, p. 136 Pu Yi 1978, pp. 137–142 Behr (1987), p. 68. Rawski, Evelyn...
west of Rhinoceros country. — tr. Birrell The Shanhaijing commentary by GuoPu (276–324 CE) compares the ba snake with the southern ran 蚺 "python", which...
border troops). Chu Suanzi, Chinese empress of the Jin dynasty (d. 384) GuoPu, Chinese historian, poet and writer (b. 276) Wang Dun (or Chuzhong), Chinese...
「伯氏吹塤, 仲氏吹篪」, and it was only through the discovery of a description by GuoPu (276–324 AD) that the character could be associated with a specific type...
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