Overview of Guo Pu’s Tomb
In the history of Chinese culture, Guo Pu is an important figure that cannot be ignored. He was knowledgeable and versatile, and was an erudite genius that no one could match at that time. He not only made great contributions to the development of immortal poetry and landscape poetry, but also made great contributions to the development of exegesis and immortality. He gathered the great achievements of Feng Shui in the past dynasties and wrote the "Book of Burial" which is full of ancient natural science thoughts, laying the theoretical foundation of Chinese Feng Shui environmental science and being respected as the originator of Chinese Feng Shui.
In the "Book of Jin" compiled by Fang Xuanling in the Tang Dynasty, there is a separate biography of Guo Pu, which is authoritative material about Guo Pu. According to this, Guo Pu was from Wenxi, Hedong (now Wenxi County in southwest Shanxi Province) during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was born in the second year of Xianning (AD 276) into a family of noble officials. He has been obsessed with ancient texts and articles since he was a child. He loved studying Yin and Yang academics and became a disciple of Guo Gong, a famous Yin and Yang master at that time. At the age of 20, he led his family to move to the south, and joined the army in the office of Zuo Lang, Shangshu Lang and General Wang Dun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after Emperor Yuan of Jin Dynasty. In the second year of Taining (AD 324), Emperor Ming of Jin Dynasty, Wang Dun launched an anti-Jin rebellion. Others said it would succeed, but only he said it was doomed to fail, and he was killed by Wang Dun in Nangang, Wuchang, Hubei Province. After Wang Dun's rebellion was quelled, Emperor Jin Ming posthumously awarded him the title of prefect of Hongnong.
There are records from past dynasties about Guo Pu’s tomb next to Jinshan Mountain in Zhenjiang. Lu You, the great poet of the Song Dynasty who worked as a general judge in Zhenjiang, recorded in "Entering Shu" that Yungen Island protrudes from the river and is not connected to Jinshan Mountain. The tomb of Guo Pu, as the common people call it, is located here. Root Island. The tomb of Guo Pu that we saw was built by Huang Jishi, the censor of the Ming Dynasty, when he came to Jinshan to pay homage to Guo Pu after going to Guazhou to inspect the navy in the 33rd year of Wanli (1606). The famous poet Liu Kezhuang of the Song Dynasty said in the poem "Guo Pu's Tomb":
The gentleman is good at Feng Shui, but the divination points are not sparse.
He died by stroking the tiger's beard and found a place in the belly of a fish.
How to learn from Guigu, but go to be friends with Lingxu.
Who can answer this question? It is Fang Bao's "Burial Book".
Sadu La, a famous poet who worked in Zhenjiang Prefecture in the Yuan Dynasty, in his poem "Journey to Jinshan", was also surprised that Guo Pu chose to be buried in the rapids of Jinshan: "What happened to Guo Pu back then? "Buried in the heart of the river and made waves".