Hello, host! At first glance, the two people above are both unlearned and unskilled, and their answers will never solve the problem for the poster. I checked the information in detail and found these for the poster, for reference only:
1. Ancient Myths There is a famous myth about Yu marrying Tu Shannu, which is recorded in the "Wu Chu Chun Qiu" volume by Zhao Ye of the Eastern Han Dynasty. 6. In "The Biography of King Wuyu of Yue" (I could not find the original text). This myth tells that Yu went to Tushan, saw a nine-tailed white fox, and heard the song of the nine-tailed white fox sung by the Tushan people. He felt that his marriage should be here, so he married a Tushan girl. The nine-tailed white fox in myth was transformed into a girl from Tushan, and the nine-tailed white fox is the spiritual beast of Tushan. If you marry a Tushan girl, you will be happy and prosperous. Therefore, when Yu met Tushan Fox, he actually met Tushan Girl, so he decided to marry her.
2. Fox Fairy is one of the common characters in Chinese legends. There are countless stories about fox fairies and fox demons in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and "Notes from Yuewei Thatched Cottage". "Charming", "evil", "fairy", "mysterious" and "cunning" can be said to be the most obvious feelings that Chinese people have when they think of "fox".
3. In fact, according to biological theory, foxes and raccoons are two kinds of animals, but people are used to calling them foxes. Only foxes have fairy spirit, and raccoons seem to be just vulgar things.
4. Foxes also appear in the "Book of Songs" - "Guo Feng·Wei Feng·You Fox" "There is a fox Suisui, in Qiliang. The heart is worried, and the son has no clothes."
5. The nine-tailed fox first appeared in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". "There is a beast in Qingqiu Mountain. It looks like a fox with nine tails, and its voice is like a baby. It can eat people, but those who eat it are not poisonous." ("Shan Hai Jing. Nanshan Jing") "Qingqiu Kingdom is in the north. The fox has four legs and nine tails. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas." Overseas East Longitude". Fox, in traditional Chinese culture, has always been an image of both good and evil. The nine-tailed fox in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is a monster that can "eat people".
6. In later stone carvings and brick paintings of the Han Dynasty, nine-tailed foxes, white rabbits, toads, and three-legged crows were often listed next to the Queen Mother's throne to show auspiciousness. It symbolizes the prosperity of descendants (see "White Tiger Theory of Tongde. Fengzen Chapter"). The legend of "cannibalism" gradually disappeared, and the theory of "wei Rui" gradually appeared.
7. In "Shuowen Jiezi" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiehu is "a Zoroastrian (demon) beast, which ghosts ride on". It can be seen that it has been recognized thousands of years ago that foxes have spiritual energy (demon energy). Later in the Tang and Song Dynasties, foxes were worshiped in temples and became very popular. Zhang Jue of the Tang Dynasty said in "Chao Ye Qian Zai": "Since the early Tang Dynasty, people have been troubled by the fox god... There was a proverb at that time: Without the charm of the fox, there is no village." In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the image of the fox became more abundant. The most famous image of Daji among the nine-tailed fox was the fox king who appeared at that time (i.e. "The Romance of the Gods") and appeared in the famous work "Journey to the West".
8. The fox fakes the power of the tiger - "Warring States Policy·Chu Policy 1" "The tiger asks for hundreds of beasts and eats them, and it gets the fox. The fox said: 'No one dares to eat me. The Emperor of Heaven made me grow hundreds of beasts, If you eat me now, you are going against the will of heaven. I am your son and you go first, and you follow me. How dare you not go away when the beasts see me? 'The tiger thought so, so he followed me. They all walked away. The tiger did not know that the beast was afraid of itself and ran away, thinking that it was afraid of the fox."
9. In the minds of the Japanese, the (fox) tanuki is a mysterious animal, and they use a kind of animal. An illusion similar to blindfolding, where the body can be transformed into any shape, or leaves can be turned into money or something to deceive humans.
We can only find so many. It turns out that foxes also have a long history. Haha, I studied with the original poster ***.