At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Guo Pu joined the army for Xuancheng satrap Ewing. Emperor Jin Yuan worshipped Zuo Lang and co-wrote The Book of Jin. Later, he joined the army as a clerk of General Wang Dun, and was killed by a bad omen to dissuade Wang Dun from rebellion. After the rebellion in Wang Dun was pacified, Governor Hongnong was posthumously awarded. When Song Huizong caught up with Wen Xibo, Yuan Shundi sealed Ling Ying Hou.
Guo Pu was an orthodox Christian, and Guo Pu, as the most famous alchemist in Jin Dynasty, not only inherited the Yi-ology of his family, but also inherited the art and mathematics of Taoism. It is said that he is good at predicting prophets and many strange magic tricks. He is good at ancient prose, strange characters, astronomy, calendar calculation, divination, and prose, especially the famous Poem of Wandering Immortals. The Book of Poetry says that it "began to change its element style, so it is called" Zhongxing first ",and Wen Xin Diao Long also says:" Jing Chunxian wrote poems about Jun Gao ". He wrote notes for Erya, Dialect, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Biography of Mu, Buried Classic, etc., which spread all over the world. There were a series of Guo Hongnong's collections in the Ming Dynasty.