Guo Chuwang (, 1190–1260) was a patriot at the end of the

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and a

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of the

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who composed the piece ''Xiaoxiang Shuiyun'' (). Guo was considered the most outstanding representative of the Zhejiang genre. He was the teacher of Liu Zhifang.

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