The man of God "Guo Pu"

There is a biography of Guo Pu in the Book of Jin, which is as long as 6,000 words in the classical Chinese era, which can be said to be very unusual. Because Guo Pu has never been a big official in his life, he has always been a servant. However, due to unpredictable events and high predictive ability, in the political arena in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the "sense of existence" was too strong and there were too many stories to tell.

A supernatural man of god.

A dead horse is a living horse doctor —— During the Yongjia Rebellion, the northern gentry moved south, and the Shanhaijing family lived in the fence. He heard that his master loved a horse and died, so he volunteered: "I can save it."

He said, I need twenty or thirty strong men, each with a long pole, and walk three miles east. There is an earth temple in the hills and Woods. If you hit it with a long pole, something will come out, so you should grab it and bring it back quickly.

Everyone did as they were told. Sure enough, they caught a little monkey-like beast and brought it back. As soon as it saw the dead horse, it blew into the dead horse's nose, and the horse soon stood up. Because of this, Guo Pu won the grand prize.

Let the powerful ministers avoid disaster-In Jiangnan, Guo Pu successfully predicted the last local unrest, and his reputation gradually spread to the upper levels of the government. The worthies Wang Dao asked him to calculate. Guo Pu said: "If you have been tortured by Lei Zhen, you can walk dozens of miles to the west, find a cypress tree, cut down a tree as long as your body and put it in your sleeping place, and the disaster can be eliminated." Wang Dao did just that. A few days later, the cypress was shattered by lightning. Wang Dao attached great importance to Guo Pu and let him join the army.

A bohemian scholar

Living in the turbulent Jin Dynasty when Sima Xin killed, divination was just one of Guo Pu's means to pursue his ideal, realize his ambition and stay away from evil.

In the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because of social unrest, the ruling group from the north used harsh laws to suppress the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people and officials were often accused.

Guo Pu wrote to the emperor, saying that according to the divination results, it is not appropriate to file a lawsuit against Daxing's prison, and admonished, "The favor of loving the people has not been widely spread, the atmosphere of strict criminal law has been very strong, and the strategy of governing the country is not yet complete, but the laws and regulations that can bind the people are constantly changing. Inconsistent laws and regulations will make people confused, and frequent personnel changes will certainly encourage some people's ambitions ... "Under the persuasion of Guo Pu, the emperor finally changed his position and granted amnesty to the world.

Guo Pu, like the literati at that time, had an unruly life style. "Drinking is like life, sometimes too much". Someone coaxed him, but he was determined to eat, drink and be merry in time. "My life is limited and I don't enjoy enough. It won't be wine and color that cause me trouble. "

Soon, Guo Pu served as Wang Dun's staff. When Wang Dun was ready to rise up and rebel, he asked Guo Pu for divination. Guo replied, "It won't succeed."

Wang Dun suspected that he had betrayed himself and said, "You can count on me again and see how long I live."

Guo Pu adamant4, "if the rebellion, a catastrophe; If you are honest, you will live long. "

When I met such an "ignorant" Wang Dun who was bent on seizing power, it was already a fire and began to threaten. "Then you calculate your life." Guo Pu still unconvinced. "Well, today!" On the same day, Guo Pu was killed at the age of 49.

After the emperor put down the "Wang Dun Rebellion", he built Guo Pu's cenotaph near Xuanwu Lake, which is now located in Guo Pudun around Xuanwu Lake.

Ancestors who claim to be ancestors.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were many Feng Shui masters in China, the most famous of which was Guo Pu. His Funeral Book extracted Feng Shui from traditional Feng Shui, defined Feng Shui, and established the theory of Feng Shui in an all-round way, which laid the foundation for later Feng Shui. The "geomantic omen" initiated by him, water comes first, followed by Tibetan wind, has been circulated for more than 1,700 years, and it is even more brilliant today. China people used to call Guo Pu the originator of Feng Shui.

Guo Pu once annotated Zhouyi, Shan Hai Jing, Mu Zhuan, Dialect and Chu Ci, and now Guo Pu's annotations can be found everywhere in Ci Hai or Ci Yuan. Guo Pu spent 18 years researching and annotating Er Ya, explaining the names of ancient animals and plants with the popular dialect names at that time, and making annotations and drawings for them, making Er Ya an important reference book for studying materia medica in past dynasties.

At the same time, Guo Pu is also a writer, and his masterpiece Poem of Wandering Immortals says, "The Beijing Ranger Cave is secluded in the mountains. He Zurong, Zhu Men, distrusted Penglai ",and also predicted their own destiny in the dark. Because Penglai here is a small continent in Xuanwu Lake.