Classical Chinese translation: Guo Zhen, courtesy name Zhongmou, was born in Pingji, Zhaozhou (now Zhao County, Hebei Province). He was promoted to Jinshi, joined the army as the manager of Tongli Army, the chief bookkeeper of Zhongmu County, and changed to the supervisor of Tongli Military Tax. The land tax in Feixiang County, Mingzhou, was unreasonable and failed to be managed for a long time. They consulted and created the square field method. They went out to measure the land and got the number. They found 400 households with no rentable land and levied a tax of 800,000 yuan. The refugees were able to get it. Resumption of business.
Ouyang Xiu, the Zhijianyuan, praised "Fangtian's method is simple and easy to implement." Zhidan and Li two states. During the Qingli period, he learned about Jizhou and transported grain to assist Wang Ze in his uprising. Later, he was published in "Ping Yan Yi" and was awarded Tong Ti Ju Bai Si and North and South Workshops. He died.
Original text in classical Chinese:
Guo Zhen was a native of Pingji, Zhaozhou. He was promoted to Jinshi, Li Tongli, the military manager, joined the army, became the chief registrar of Zhongmu County, changed to Dali Temple Cheng, and knew Jiyin County. Suggestions: "The dikes of Chan and Hua are narrow and cannot kill the wrath of the big river. Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, most of the rivers have been in Chan and Hua. And in the original area of ????the Jiuhe River in Liyang, if the river is now led out from the foot of Wenzi Mountain, it passes through the Jindi and joins the Henglong River. , If it reaches the sea, the harm can be stopped." The envoys of this edict were ordered to discuss it, but it was not agreed. The ministers sit on the small court and supervise the military tax.
Extended information:
Guo Zhen has the highest achievements in Yuefu, song lines and quatrains. The lines of his songs completely break all the inherent patterns of poetry creation. They are empty and have many styles of writing, reaching a magical realm of unpredictable and swaying at will.
Guo Zhen's quatrains are natural, lively, elegant and unrestrained, and can express endless emotions in concise and clear language. Among the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei and Meng Haoran were good at the Five Jue, and Wang Changling and other Qi Jue were very good at writing. Guo Shen was the only one who was good at both the Five Jue and the Seven Jue and reached the same extreme level.
Guo Zhen’s poems are majestic and elegant, and his artistic achievements are extremely high. He eulogized the mountains, rivers and beautiful natural scenery of the motherland, with a majestic and unrestrained style, handsome and fresh, full of romantic spirit, and achieved the unity of content and art. He was called the "Exiled Immortal" by He Zhizhang, and most of his poems mainly described landscapes and expressed inner emotions. Guo Zhen's poems have the artistic charm of "the pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes weeping ghosts and gods", which is also the most distinctive artistic feature of his poems.