Guo Pu

Who was Guo Pu?

Guo Pu, courtesy name Jingchun, was a Chinese writer and scholar of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 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 Shan Hai Jing 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 Jin Dynasty. He wrote The Book of Burial, an early source of fengshui doctrine.