Nine-tailed fox's related introduction

Ancient Chinese legendary beast.

Han stone carving and brick paintings, often with nine-tailed fox and white rabbit, toad, three-footed Wu genus and carved next to the Queen Mother of the West, to show auspicious.

The nine-tailed fox symbolizes the prosperity of the descendants, but also Yu married in Tushan's daughter's legacy. The later generations against its meaning, to "cannibalism" of the nine-tailed fox for the demon, the Six Dynasties Li Logic note "Thousand Characters" "weeks of Yin Tang", has been said to Daji for the nine-tailed fox, Ming novels, "Feng Shen Ban" is more to play the said, and thus it is the demonic work of the slanderous woman main (insulting).

The Classic of Mountains and Seas. South Mountain scripture": "[Qingqiu mountain] there is a beast, its shape like a fox and nine tails, its voice like a baby, can eat people, eaters do not compulsion." Guo Pu's note: "That is, the nine-tailed fox."

Han Zhao Ye "Wu Yue Chun Qiu. Yue Wang Wu Yu extemporized ":" Yu thirty unmarried, fear of the time of the twilight, lost its system, is the words of cloud: 'I married also, there will be should be carried out.' There was a nine-tailed white fox that was built in Yu. Yu said: 'White my clothes, its nine-tailed, the king's evidence. The song of Tushan said: Sui Sui White Fox, Nine-tailed Dragon. My family, Jia Yi, came to be the king. My family has become a family, and I have made them prosperous. The people of heaven and earth are in line with each other. It is clear! Yu therefore married Tushan, and was called Lady Jiao."

Song Zhao Lingchou, Hou Mackerel Records, Volume VIII: "Qiantang, an official prostitute, sex is good charm, people called the nine-tailed wild fox."

The nine-tailed fox, first appeared in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. "The mountains of Qingqiu, there is a beast, its shape like a fox and nine-tailed, its voice like a baby, can eat people, eaters do not compulsion." (The Classic of Mountains and Seas - South Mountain Scripture), "The country of Qingqiu is to the north of it, and its fox is four-footed and nine-tailed." (The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Overseas Eastern Scripture). Fox, in traditional Chinese culture, has always been an image of both good and evil (according to the formal statement, the fox, the fox, the beaver is two kinds of animals, just people called used to, collectively referred to as the fox, and only the fox has the immortal spirit, the beaver seems to be just mundane). The nine-tailed fox in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a demonic beast that can "eat people". To the later Han Dynasty stone carving and brick painting, often with the nine-tailed fox and white rabbit, toad, three-footed Wu's genus listed next to the seat of the Queen Mother of the West, in order to show auspicious, nine-tailed fox symbolizes the prosperity of the descendants (see "White Tiger Tongde Lun - Fengchan chapter"). "Cannibalism" of the rumors gradually hidden, "for Switzerland" said gradually appeared. However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty's Shuowen Jiezi (说文解字), the fox was interpreted as a "Zoroastrian beast, ridden by ghosts". Visible, the fox has a spirit (demonic), thousands of years ago, has been recognized. Later, during the Tang and Song dynasties, foxes were already worshipped in temples and were very popular. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Gull's "The Legitimacy of the Dynasty" said, "Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the people had much to do with the fox god, ... At that time, there was a proverb that said: no fox charm, no village." And by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the image of the fox was even richer. The most famous image of Daji, the nine-tailed fox, appeared at that time ("Fengshen Yanyi"), and in "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and "Notes on the Study of Microcosmic Cao Tang", the stories of fox fairies and fox demons are even more numerous. "Demonic", "evil", "immortal", "mysterious", " Cunning" can be said to be the most obvious feeling of Chinese people when they think of "fox".