Please help, what animal is the pattern on this dress?

The nine-tailed fox is a divine animal in ancient Chinese mythology, often used to symbolize auspiciousness. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period compilation of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Classic of Mountains and Seas" cloud: "Qingqiu's mountain there is a beast, its shape like a fox and nine-tailed, its voice like a baby, can eat people, eaters do not compulsion." [1]

The most basic feature of its image is the "nine tails", the legend of the Shiping is out for Ruiya. The Rui Ying Tu Tu said: "the king does not lean on the color, then the nine-tailed fox to arrive." And "Song book - Fu Rui Zhi" said: "white fox, the king of benevolence and wisdom to." The Book of Filial Piety invokes the Divine Deity to say, "If virtue reaches the birds and beasts, then the fox will have nine tails."

But the nine-tailed fox has been demonized at the latest in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and early on there were vicious images of cannibalism.