Guo Pu (Chinese: 郭璞; traditional Chinese: 郭璞; pinyin: Guō Pú; Wade–Giles: Kuo P'u, 276–324), courtesy name Jingchun (景纯), born in Yuncheng, Shanxi, was a Chinese writer.
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Guo Pu was a Taoist mystic, geomancer, collector of strange tales, editor of old texts, and erudite commentator. He was the first commentator of Mountains and Seas Classic and so probably, with the noted Han bibliographer Liu Hsin, 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 wrote The Book of Burial, an early source of fengshui doctrine.[2] He made annotations to many pre-Qin ancient works, such as:
He was reputed to be learned in the arts of divination. Through his biography is obscured by the many legends about him, it is known that he served in Jianye, the modern Nanjing. When he made a prophecy of defeat to a rebel, he was executed by the same man.
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- Klöpsch, Volker/ Müller, Eva: Lexikon der Chinesischen Literatur. München, 2004
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Guo, Pu |
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| Short description |
Writer |
| Date of birth |
276 |
| Place of birth |
Yuncheng, Shanxi, China |
| Date of death |
324 |
| Place of death |
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