Guo Pu’s introduction

Guo Pu (276-324), courtesy name Jingchun, was a native of Wenxi County, Hedong County (now Wenxi County, Shanxi Province). He was the son of Guo Yuan, the prefect of Jianping, and a famous writer in the Jin Dynasty. He is an exegete and Feng Shui scholar. He is good at ancient prose and strange calligraphy. He is good at astronomy, calendar calculation and divination. He is good at poetry and poetry. He is the founder of immortal poetry. In addition to the Yixue passed down from his family, Guo Pu also inherited Taoist magic and mathematics. He was the most famous alchemist in the Jin Dynasty. Legend has it that he was good at divination and many strange alchemy skills. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, he joined the army for Yin You, the prefect of Xuancheng. Emperor Yuan of Jin Dynasty paid homage to Zuo Lang and wrote the "History of Jin" with Wang Yin. Later, he joined the army for Wang Dun's Ji Office. He used unlucky divination to prevent Dun from rebelling and was killed. Later, he was awarded to the prefect of Hongnong. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously granted the title Wenxi Bo 2, and during the reign of Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, he was posthumously granted the title of Marquis Lingying 3. Guo Pu was an orthodox Zhengdao believer who was good at prose and was especially famous for his "Poems on Traveling Immortals". "Shipin" said that "it began to change the plain style of Yongjia, so it is called the first in Zhongxing", and "Wen Xin Diao Long" also said: "Jing Chunxian's chapter is straight and handsome." He once wrote annotations for "Erya", "Dialect", "Shan Hai Jing", "Biography of Emperor Mu", and "Burial Sutra", which were passed down to the world. The Ming Dynasty compiled "Guo Hongnong Collection".