A Brief Introduction to the Author of Funeral Ceremony

Guo Pu (276-324), a native of wenxi county, Hedong, was the son of Guo Yuan, the magistrate of Jianping in the Western Jin Dynasty. A famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not only a litterateur and an exegetist, but also a master of Taoism and mathematics, and the founder of youxian poetry.

Besides, Mr. Kate's Buried Sutra is not the usual one, so don't confuse it. Kate's Funeral Sutra is earlier than Guo Pu's Funeral Sutra, which is preceded by a preface signed by Wu Qinzuo, the prime minister of Jin State. The preface says: "Mr. (Kate) is a native of Han Dynasty, who is good at geography and Yin and Yang, but he is not worthy of the name in history. Jin Guo's "Burial Book" quoted scripture as evidence, that is, this is also. "

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Guo Pu expected that there would be war in his hometown, so he took refuge in the southeast. After crossing the river, he joined the army under the shadow of Xuancheng House, and then went down from Xuancheng East, where he was guided by the then governor of Danyang to join the army. After Emperor Wu of Jin ascended the throne, he became a writer and moved to Shang. Later general Wang Dun joined the army. He was killed for dissuading Wang Dun from plotting against him. Posthumously awarded to Governor Hongnong. It is said that Wang Dun asked him, since you are good at divination, can you know your own date of death? Guo Pu calmly replied, I know it's today, so I died. It shows his noble patriotic feelings of safeguarding national unity and opposing separatism. Guo Pu's poems about immortals reflect the pursuit of the realm of immortals, and show the state of mind of eugenics and avoiding disasters. Er Ya Zhu, Er Ya Yin, Er Ya Tu Shuo and Er Ya Tu Zan are representative works of Er Ya studies in the previous generation. Today, there are three volumes of Er Ya Zhu, which are published in Notes to Thirteen Classics and Notes to Dialects, explaining ancient sayings in Jin language, showing the changes of Chinese and Jin languages. Guo Pu Feng Shui World, Taishan Beidou, Feng Shui: Qi rides the wind to disperse, but the boundary water stops, the mountain dominates Ding, and the water dominates wealth. The five elements of feng shui fish pond belong to the wealth and wisdom of water management. In the cultural history of China, Guo Pu is an important figure that cannot be ignored. He not only made great contributions to the development of poems about immortals and landscape fu, but also to the development of exegetics and mythology. Therefore, he is known as a poet, lyricist, linguist and mythologist in academic circles. In the field of geomantic omen, he collected the great achievements of China geomantic omen in past dynasties, abolished Bazhai geomantic omen, and wrote books with ancient scientific thoughts, such as Funeral Book, Jade Picture Book and Zhenjing, which laid the theoretical foundation of China's geomantic omen-Yuan Qi burial, making him a famous geomantic gentleman, respected by later geomantic circles, and honored as the originator of China geomantic omen after the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Guo Pu has made great achievements in ancient philology and exegetics, and has annotated the Zhouyi, Shan Hai Jing, Er Ya, Dialect, Chu Ci and other ancient books. There are tens of thousands of words in Guo Pu's poems, most of which have been lost. There are also 10 poems and 18 poems. Sui Shu's Jing Ke Zhi records that "Jin Hongnong's satrap" Collection of Shanhaijing summarized "(volume 17). Not today. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Qian compiled two volumes of Guo Hongnong's Collection, which was included in 103 collections of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties.

According to legend, I got "Nine Volumes of Clearing Capsule" from Guo Gongchu, Hedong, and gained insight into Yin and Yang, astronomy, five elements and divination. There is also a legend that Guo Pu was taught by Qing Wuzi. Legend has it that Qing Wuzi was Zhang Tianshi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Pu was here, he was called "Zuo Lang". When the emperor collapsed, Pu also left his post with his mother's funeral. The burial book and Qing nang Jing handed down from ancient times are his last works. Guo Pu was the first person to define Feng Shui in history. In "Burial Book", he said: Buried people take advantage of anger. Qi dissipates by the wind, and the boundary water stops. The ancients gathered together to make it last for a long time, so it was called Feng Shui. Later generations regard Guo Pu as the originator of geomantic history.