Guo Xiang's main works

Guo Xiang's works, the most important of which has been handed down to this day, are Zhuangzi's Notes. This book has been handed down from generation to generation, becoming the standard annotation of ancient Zhuangzi in China. It is the last system representing the third stage of the development of metaphysics. The classic works "Laozi" and "Annals of Sui Shu Classics" contain two volumes of The Analects of Confucius. Also recorded the Analects of Confucius 1 volume written by Guo Xiang, and died. There are nine notes by Guo Xiang in Huang Kan's Shu Yi Lun in Liang Dynasty, and one lost collection in Han Yu Shan Fang Ji by Ma Guohan in Qing Dynasty. It is of great value to study Guo Xiang's thought to understand his meaning and to be mutually invented with Zhuangzi's Note. There are Guo Xiang's comments on Lao Zi in HUAN's Moral Truth Shu Shu and Li Lin's Virtue Truth Collection in Daozang, and some of Guo Xiang's comments are quoted, but the full text is lost. Historical Records of the Tang Dynasty is a collection of five volumes, and Sui Shu is a two-volume book, which is spread all over the world. Lao still has five volumes of Guo, which has been lost today. In the Book of Jin, Guo Xiang wrote 12 inscriptions, and in the Selected Works, Liu's On Distinguishing Fate mentioned that Guo Xiang wrote a book on fate, and Tang Lishan noted: "Guo wrote his own destiny, which was good or bad for himself." These may all be Guo's content. There are twelve pieces in On Monuments. There are different views on the characteristics and basic tendency of Guo Xiang's philosophical thought in academic circles. One view holds that Guo Xiang's philosophical thought is characterized by "advocating ontology"; Another view is "individualization theory". Some scholars think that the basic tendency of Guo Xiang's philosophy is materialism, while others think that it is basically idealism. After further analysis, different conclusions are drawn from subjective idealism or objective idealism. These differences show the complexity of Guo Xiang's philosophical thought.