Overview of Guo Pu's Tomb

In the cultural history of China, Guo Pu is an important figure that cannot be ignored. He was knowledgeable and versatile, and he was an unparalleled erudite wizard at that time. He not only made great contributions to the development of poems about immortals and landscape fu, but also made great contributions to the development of exegetics and immortals. He collected the achievements of geomantic omen in past dynasties, wrote a burial book full of ancient natural science thoughts, laid the theoretical foundation of China's geomantic environment theory, and was honored as the originator of geomantic omen in China.

In the Book of Jin compiled by Fang in Tang Dynasty, there are separate biographies about Guo Pu and authoritative materials about Guo Pu. Accordingly, Guo Pu was a native of Wenxi (now wenxi county, southwest of Shanxi Province) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the second year of Xianning, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty (AD 276), he was born in the family of gentry and bureaucrats. Since childhood, I have been obsessed with ancient Chinese prose, and I love to study Yin and Yang. I studied under the famous Yin and Yang scholar Guo Gong at that time. At the age of 20, he led his family to migrate to the south. After the Jin Emperor, he served as the clerk of Zuo Lang, Shang Shulang and General Wang Dun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty to join the army. In the second year of Jin Mingdi Taining (AD 324), Wang Dun launched an anti-Jin uprising. Everyone said he would succeed, but he said he was doomed to failure and was killed by Wang Dun in Nangang, Wuchang, Hubei. After the Wang Dun Uprising was pacified, Jin Mingdi posthumously conferred him as the prefect of Hongnong.

Guo Pu's tomb near Jinshan, Zhenjiang, has been recorded in all previous dynasties. Lu You, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, was punished in Zhenjiang. In the Book of Entering Shu, it was recorded that Yungen Island stood out in the middle of the river and was not connected with Jinshan. People said that Guo Pu's tomb was on this Yungen Island. Look at Guo Pu's tomb, which was built in the thirty-third year of Wanli (1606) when Huang Ji, the security department of Ming Dynasty, visited Guazhou and paid tribute to Guo Pu in Jinshan. Liu Kezhuang, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty, said in a poem "Guo Pu's Tomb":

Sir, water and blood should not be sparse.

I had to die because I took great risks, but I still found a fish belly to live in.

How to learn from the ghost valley, but go to the ghost virtual.

Whose reason is this? People cherish the book of burial.

Sadula, a famous poet who worked in Zhenjiang in the Yuan Dynasty, was also surprised that Guo Pu chose to be buried in the torrent of Jinshan in his poem "You Jin Shan": "Why did Guo Pu come to bury the river and make waves?" .