In the second year of Guangde, Tang Daizong (AD 764), in 65438+ February, Guo Ziyi built a temple for his father Guo Jingzhi, and Yan Zhenqing, the minister of punishments and calligrapher (AD 709-785) wrote an inscription for the temple. "Guo Gong Temple Inscription" says: "Looking back at the beginning, I found that Zhou's uncle Guo, Guo or Guo, is a surname. Take the surname as Taiyuan. " Inscription: Yan Zhenqing, the founding father of Luxian County, was written by Dr. Jin Ziguanglu, the minister of punishments, and Wu, a male subordinate, was awarded the order of Fenyang Zhong Wang. When Yan Zhenqing, the minister of punishments, wrote the Monument to the Temple of the Duke of Guo for the father of Prime Minister Guo Ziyi, every sentence was carefully scrutinized. Among them, Guo Xungen Lu was undoubtedly written according to the opinions of his family, and it was undoubtedly reviewed and approved by his family. The tablet of Guo Gong Temple, which belongs to the first-hand historical materials, is the most credible and authoritative.
Guo Ziyi was praised by Mitchell Sr. as a "perfect man" who "has the ability to pour out the world without hesitation and has undoubtedly contributed to a generation". In Mitchell's words, it is the so-called "the way of people and ministers is perfect." The name of Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, spread all over the world with a play "Playing Golden Branches". The Monument to the Temple of Guo Gong, written by Yan Zhenqing, recorded Guo's life experience and became a classic pursued by Guo's descendants.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi recorded the origin of Guo in the Book of the Prime Minister's Genealogy in the New Tang Dynasty, which was actually written according to the basic viewpoint of Yan Zhenqing's Guo Gong Ci Bei in the Tang Dynasty, but it was more specific. Because of this, the record of the origin of the Guo family in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty Prime Minister's Genealogy has been passed down from generation to generation among the Guo people, and has been widely recognized by the descendants of the Guo family, especially the descendants, and has become the basic basis for the compilation of the Guo family genealogy in past dynasties.