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987: 50: 567:). Guo served as an omen-interpreter to military leaders and Eastern Jin chancellor Wang Dao before being appointed to official court positions in 318 and 320. Guo's mother died in 322, which caused Guo to resign his position and spend a year in mourning. In 323 Guo joined the staff of warlord 637:. Guo's commentaries, which identify and explain rare words and allusions, are often the only surviving sources of these glosses, and without which leave the original work mostly incomprehensible to modern readers. In particular, Guo's commentaries to the 507:
and so probably, with the noted Han bibliographer Liu Xin, was instrumental in preserving this valuable mythological and religious text. Guo Pu was the well educated son of a governor. He was a natural historian and a prolific writer of the
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period, and is best known as one of China's foremost commentators on ancient texts. Guo was a Taoist mystic, geomancer, collector of strange tales, editor of old texts, and erudite commentator. He was the first commentator of the
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doctrine and the first book to address the concept of feng shui in the history of China, making Guo Pu the first person historically to define feng shui, and therefore, Guo Pu is usually called the father of feng shui in China.
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are considered sufficiently authoritative that they are included in all standard versions of those texts. Without his glosses and commentaries, large portions of these texts would be unintelligible today.
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in his youth, and mainly worked as a prognosticator for various local officials and leaders, interpreting omens and portents in order to predict the success or failure of various endeavors. In AD 307 a
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Guo was likely the most learned person of his era, and is one of the foremost commentators on ancient Chinese works. He wrote commentaries to the
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areas, but was executed in 324 after he failed to produce a favorable omen toward Wang's planned usurpation of the Eastern Jin throne.
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Tian, Xiaofei (2010). "From the Eastern Jin through the early Tang (317–649)". In Owen, Stephen (ed.).
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A Translation of the Ancient Chinese 'The Book of Burial (Zang Shu)' by Guo Pu (276-324)
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display his extensive command of the ancient Chinese language. One of them, entitled "
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on the Excursion Hunt of the Son of Heaven", and three ancient dictionaries:
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Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide, Part One
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Pease, Jonathan (1998). "Kuo P'u 郭璞". In Nienhauser, William (ed.).
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The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Volume 2
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The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
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had been lost. All that remains today are his writings from the
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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 1: To 1375
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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature, Volume 1: To 1375
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and reconstructions from quotations in other surviving works.
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clan invaded the area and Guo's family relocated south of the
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People executed by the Jin dynasty (266–420) by decapitation
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Guo was also an accomplished poet, and his 11 surviving
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Index

Chinese name
family name
Guo

Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
IPA

Wu
Romanization
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
IPA

Southern Min
Hokkien
POJ
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
Yue: Cantonese

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