Guo Pu / 郭璞
Guo Pu / 郭璞 appears in 87.过年最适合聊玄学!探讨神仙方术发展史(接上集) as the figure attached to early fengshui authority. The episode links him to 《葬书》, while also noting that scholars often regard that attribution as later and uncertain.
The source uses Guo Pu to explain 风水生气论: sites are evaluated through qi, wind, water, and protective directional forms such as the later four-symbol layout.
Key Claims
- Guo Pu functions as a traditional authority figure for fengshui in the episode.
- The episode keeps attribution caution visible, treating the text’s later history as uncertain.
- Fengshui is framed as a technique of managing qi and landscape relation, not only as household superstition.
Connections
- 《葬书》 - text linked to Guo Pu in the source.
- Feng Shui Vital-Energy Theory / 风水生气论, Fangshu Systematization / 方术系统化, and Chinese Folk Religion Layering - concept cluster.
- Chinese Astrological Politics / 中国星占政治 - adjacent heaven-earth interpretive branch.