Overview
Guo Pu was a scholar, Writer, and Diviner.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Jin
Life and dates
Death
- Cause The mountain clan plotDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 252
Attested activity
- AD 317 to AD 324 中興Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passages 243, 245, 259
- AD 322 to AD 324 王敦之逆Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passages 251-252
- AD 266 to AD 316 西朝Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passage 245
Career and standing
- minor office 宦微HeldDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 248
- SufferedRitually slightedDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 248
Places and affiliations
- Polity Western Jin 西朝 · Relation Active inDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 245
- Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Active inDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 245
Learning and skills
- Skill wide learning and strong memory of silk texts and strange books 篤志綈緗，洽聞強記 · Level masteryDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 243
- Skill stalk divination and knowing the future from the past 探策定數，考往知來 · Level surpassing Jing Fang, Guan Lu, and Zi ShenDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 247
- Skill bird omens and turtle-stalk milfoil 鳥冊／龜枚 · Level thoroughDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 260
Works and attributed material
- Guest's Pride 客傲Relation AuthorDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 248
Events and relationships
- Inherited Western Jin elegance and wielded rhetoric in the southLiterary · AuthorDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 245
- Killed through mountain clan plotPolitical · VictimDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 252
- Late loyal words failed to stop revoltDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 251
- Relation Failed to restrain · Person Wang Dun (王敦)Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 251
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment brilliance and vast talent shown from early on · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 259
- Assessment brought the state no grief yet incurred personal disaster · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 261
- Assessment Confucius's warning against heterodox arts applies; alas · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 253
- Assessment petty lodging of feeling in Guest's Pride is the burden of accomplished mantic craft · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 248
- Assessment spirit refined and thought lofty; patriarch of Restoration talent and learning · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 244-245
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 243
References in the histories
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