Guo Pu 郭璞

Other names

Family

• Child of Guo Yuan (郭瑗)
  father 父
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 4

• Kinship Role marriage ties and travel-friend households · Quantity several tens of houses
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 15

Career and standing

• military adviser (aide) 參軍
  Appointed · Under Person Id Yin You (殷祐) · At Xuancheng 宣城
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 39
• staff officer for military affairs 參軍事
  Appointed · Under Person Id Wang Dao (王導)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 57

Places and affiliations

• Polity Western Jin 西晉 · Relation Lived under
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 3, 12
• Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Served
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passages 39, 57
• At Wenxi in Hedong commandery 河東聞喜
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 3
• At Hedong 河東 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 3
• At Lujiang 廬江 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 27
• At Stone Citadel 石頭 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 51

Learning and skills

• Subject classical learning 經術 · Relation Studied
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 7
• Teacher Person Id Master Guo (郭公) · Subject divination 卜筮
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 9
• Skill fu verse 詞賦 · Level foremost among Restoration authors
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 7
• Skill archaic characters and unusual graphs 古文奇字
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 8
• Skill Five Agents, astronomy, and milfoil divination 五行、天文、卜筮之術
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 10
• Skill yin-yang numerology and calendar science 陰陽算曆
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 8

Works and attributed material

• The Satchel of Azure Secrets 青囊中書
  Relation Received · Quantity nine fascicles · From Person Id Master Guo (郭公)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 10
• 敗
  Divination · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Hu Mengkang (胡孟康)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 29
• Hexagram reading · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Yin You (殷祐)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 41-46
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Wang Dao (王導)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 58
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Zhao Gu (趙固)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 18, 21-22
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Hu Mengkang (胡孟康)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 33

Events and relationships

• Cast Dun changing to Gu and named the beast the donkey rat
  Mantic · Diviner · With Yin You (殷祐)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 40-41, 46-47
• Cast milfoil about Hedong turmoil and lamented coming ruin
  Mantic · Diviner
  Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 72, passages 12-14
• Crossed the Yangzi
  Travel · Migrant
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 39
• Divined defeat for Hu Mengkang
  Mantic · Diviner · With Hu Mengkang (胡孟康)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 29
• Explained the Wuxi cornus omen as mao line harming Metal
  Mantic · Diviner
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passages 55-56
• Followed Yin You on transfer as Stone Citadel protector
  Career · Follower · With Yin You (殷祐)
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 51

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment even Jing Fang and Guan Lu could not surpass his mantic arts · With Jing Fang (京房), Guan Lu (管輅) · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 10
• Assessment his fu verse ranked first among the Restoration authors · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 7
• Assessment his subtle mantic skill was like this · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 50
• awkward/clumsy in debate and speech
  Speech · 訥於言論
  Directly stated · Book of Jin 72, passage 7