The legend of Guo Pu, the ancestor of feng shui

Guo Pu (276-324), courtesy name Jingchun, was a native of Wenxi County, Hedong County (present-day Wenxi County, Shanxi), a famous writer, hermenist, feng shui scholar, geographer, and Taoist scholar of the Two Jin Dynasties, who was proficient in astronomical divination and feng shui poetry. With the name of "You Xian Poem", his works include "Guo Hongnong Collection", "Burial Classic", and "Qingneng Jing", which are regarded as ancestors by later feng shui masters.

Guo Pu is a member of the Zhengyi Daoist, in addition to the family tradition, but also inherited the Taoist techniques, once with Xu Tianshi was a good friend, the two traveled all over the north and south of the river, famous mountains and scenic spots, surveying geography.

Due to the infighting in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the strength of the Jin Dynasty was greatly reduced, and in the fifth year of Yongjia, the Xiongnu Han State attacked Luoyang and captured Emperor Huai of Jin, and the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed. The northern clans took refuge in the south of Jiangdong, known in history as the Yongjia Rebellion, and Guo Pu also came to Nanjing at this time.

Later, Sima Rui, the king of Langya, established the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the support of his courtiers, and the political situation at that time was summed up in one sentence: Wang Ma shared the world, and Ma was naturally the royal Sima clan, and the king was Wang Dun of the Langya Wang clan and his younger brother Wang Dao, who respectively held the military and political power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Guo Pu came to Nanjing to be appreciated by Wang Dao, was recruited as an aide, and later was favored by Sima Rui and appointed as a writer. After the death of his mother, he resigned from his official post to keep filial piety. After the expiration of the term, he was introduced by Wang Dun as a secretary to join the army, equivalent to a secretary.

Due to the excessive prestige of the Langya Wang clan, which posed a great threat to the Sima clan, Sima Rui began a series of means to balance the Langya Wang clan, and in the first year of Yongchang, Wang Dun raised an army in Wuchang in the name of the Qing Emperor's side, invaded Jiankang, and expelled dissidents, and was worshiped as a minister, Jiangzhou Mu, and became the Duke of Wuchang County, and then moved to Anhui after returning to Wuchang, and took control of the Gyeonggi region from Yangzhou Mu.

Two years later, Wang Dun's ambition was impatient and he was ready to rebel, so he invited Guo Pu to divinate beforehand, Guo Pu told him that he would not succeed, Wang Dun asked how long he could live if he started an incident, Guo Pu replied that if he started an incident, his life would not be long, and if he honestly stayed in Wuchang, the fate could not be calculated, wang Dun was extremely angry and asked: How long is your life?

Guo Pu already knew his ending and said, "It's noon today." Sure enough, Wang Dun, who was furious, killed him that day, and it was Guo Pu who was 49 years old. Wang Dunqi was also defeated less than two months after the incident, and died of illness soon after.

Even today, there are still stories of Guo Pu Zhu Bu Zheng, which sounds like a god.

Perhaps knowing that although his death method is magical, after all, it is not beautiful, in the final chapter of the Ming Dynasty novel "Xu Zhenjun Chop Jiao", "Guo Pu of Wuchang Province, Xu Zhenjun's Ascension to Heaven", the author Deng Zhimo arranged a corpse ending:

In the second year of emperor Taining of the Jin Dynasty, the general Wang Dunzi was in charge of Zhong, went out to defend Wuchang, and raised his troops introverted, second only to Dongting Lake. Zhenjun and Wu Jun went together to say that Gai wanted to stop Dun and save Jinye.

At that time, Guo Jingchun was also in the Wang Dun shogunate, so the three were able to meet. Jing Chun said of zhenjun: "Gong chops the essence of the jiao, and the merit is perfect." In the land of the Western Mountains, the Aura Bell is finished, and the public should rise on the day. "True King's thanks are different, this is not a word.

Moreover, it is said that Jing Chun and the true king Wu Junjing came to see Wang Dun, and When He saw that the three of them were together, he was very happy, so he ordered a feast to be held around him, and invited the three people to drink until he was half drunk, and Tun asked: "I had a dream last night, and I dreamed of a wood breaking the sky, and I don't know what the Lord is?" ”

Zhenjun said: "The wood breaks the heavens, but it is not a word, and the public cannot be moved." Wu Junyue: "The words of my master are prescient and publicly aware." When Wang Dun heard the words of the true king, his heart was very unhappy, but he was deformed into color, which made Guo Pubuzhi.

Pu Yue: "This number is in the gram body, the general is on this trip, and the officer is not successful." Wang Dun was displeased: "What is my life span?" ”

Pu Yue: "If the general does something big, it will not be long before he does." If Wuchang is returned, the life expectancy is not measurable. Wang Dun angrily said, "Ru Shou geometry?" Pu Yue: "My life is today." Wang Dun was furious and ordered the samurai to behead him. Zhenjun and WuJun raised their glasses and threw themselves into a pair of white cranes, flying around Liang Dong. Wang Dun looked at it in one fell swoop, and he had lost the place of the second king.

Moreover, it is said that Guo Pu was dead, and the people prepared a coffin for the clothes and coffins, and they were buried. On the third day of Yue, the people of the city saw that pu was dressed like a crown and met with relatives and friends as before.

Wang Dunzhi did not believe it, so that the coffin was regarded, and if there was no corpse, he knew that Pu had de-qualityd shengxian ye. Since Wang Dun's army was defeated, he returned to Wuchang and died, leading the corpse to be punished, and Gai did not listen to the advice of the Three Kings, so on.