Guō Chéngzhī 郭澄之 (late 4th – early 5th century), zì Zhòngjìng 仲靜, native of Yángqū 陽曲 in Tàiyuán 太原. He is recorded in the Jìn shū 晉書 92 (列傳 62, Wényuàn) as a writer of high reputation who served on the staff of Liú Yù 劉裕 (founder of the LiúSòng dynasty) as Cānjūn 參軍 and later Xiāngzhōu cìshǐ 相州刺史 (?). His exact lifedates are not preserved, but his floruit can be securely placed in the last two decades of the Eastern Jìn and the immediate prelude to the LiúSòng founding (i.e., c. 380–420). The Jìn shū notes that he “skilled in literary composition, fond of antiquity” and was esteemed in the qīngtán 清談 circles of his day.
He is the credited author of KR3l0155 Guōzǐ 郭子 in 3 juàn — a zhìrén 志人 collection of WèiJìn anecdotes that became one of the principal sources for Liú Yìqìng’s Shìshuō xīnyǔ KR3l0002, surviving today only in fragments preserved through Liú Jùn 劉峻’s Shìshuō commentary and the standard Sòng léishū. The reconstruction stands in Lǔ Xùn’s Gǔ xiǎoshuō gōuchén 古小說鉤沉.
CBDB has no clearly-identified entry for this person under any consistent set of dates and provincial identifications; no id is recorded here.