Guo Zixing

Guo Zixing was a wealthy landowner and famous local bravo from Dinqyuan country in Anhui.

The family original had come from Caozhou in Shandong. Guo’s father had come to Haozhou as a fortune-teller and seer. There was a landlord there who had a blind daughter with no prospects for getting married. Guo Zixing’s father had married her, gained a rich dowry, and had three sons by her, of whom Guo Zixing was the second. Gou and his brothers were clever at calculations, buying goods when cheap and selling dear, buying land, and opening shops. Within the space of ten or twenty years they were among, if not the wealthiest landlords in the locality.

Along with Zhu Yuanzhang, who later became the first emperor in Ming dynasty, Guo revolted the Yuan dynasty in Haozhou (near Fengyang and Dingyuan city at present) and finally overthrown it by Ming dynasty.