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Pu Guo
276–324
An Eastern Jin writer remembered for bringing old Chinese texts vividly to life, he moved easily between poetry, scholarship, and myth. His name is also closely tied to the Book of Burial, a work later associated with the early history of feng shui.
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穆天子传
by Pu Guo
About the author
Guo Pu was a Chinese poet, writer, and scholar of the Eastern Jin period, living from 276 to 324 CE. He is widely known as an important commentator on ancient texts, and later tradition also linked him with Daoist thought and divination.
His surviving reputation rests not only on his own writing, but on the way he helped preserve and explain earlier works. Sources credit him with commentaries on classics including the Erya, the Shanhaijing, and the Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven, showing the range of his interests across language, geography, and the strange edge of legend.
He has also long been associated with the Book of Burial, a text that became influential in the history of feng shui. That mix of literary skill, learning, and fascination with the unseen has made him an especially memorable figure in early Chinese literature.