Guo Pu

Guo Pu
Guo Pu
Chinese	郭璞
Literal meaning	(personal name)
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guō Pú Gwoyeu Romatzyh Guo Pwu Wade–Giles Kuo1 P'u2 IPA [kwó pʰǔ] Wu Romanization Kueʔ Poʔ Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gwok Puk Jyutping Gwok3 Pok3 IPA [kʷɔk̚˧ pʰɔk̚˧] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Kueh Phok Middle Chinese Middle Chinese kwak pʰuwk
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	景純
Simplified Chinese	景纯
Literal meaning	(courtesy name)
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jǐngchún Gwoyeu Romatzyh Jiingchwen Wade–Giles Ching3-ch'un2 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gíng-sèuhn Jyutping Ging2-seon4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Kíng-sûn Middle Chinese Middle Chinese kjǽng dʒwin

Guo Pu (Chinese: 郭璞; AD 276–324), courtesy name Jingchun (Chinese: 景純; pinyin: Jǐngchún), was a Chinese historian, poet, and writer during the Eastern Jin 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 Shan Hai Jing and so probably, with the noted Han bibliographer Liu Xin, was instrumental in preserving this valuable mythological and religious text.^[1] Guo Pu was the well educated son of a governor. He was a natural historian and a prolific writer of the Jin dynasty. He is the author of The Book of Burial, the first-ever and the most authoritative source of feng shui 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.^[2][3]