1. The legendary strange beast.
Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Jing: "There is a beast, which is like a fox and Kyubi no Youko, and its voice is like a baby. It can eat people, but the eater is not strange." Guo Pu's Note: "That is, the nine-tailed fox." The ancients thought it was a sign of auspiciousness. The King of Han praised the Four Scholars' Theory of Morality: "In the past, the King of Wen should be a nine-tailed fox, while Dongyi returned to Zhou."
2. It refers to a treacherous and seductive person.
Song Tiankuang's The Scholars: "Chen Pengnian was deeply met by Zhang Sheng (Song Zhenzong) ... when he was a nine-tailed fox, his words were not national auspicious, but charming and ambiguous."
The nine-tailed fox: a strange beast in ancient East Asian myths and legends. According to classical legend, the nine-tailed fox is a four-legged monster, with lux fluff all over it. Good at change, bewitch. Sex likes to eat people, and its baby crying is often used to attract people to visit.
In legend, the nine-tailed fox is an extremely terrible monster. The legend of Kyubi no Youko originated in China, but no one mentioned it. The nine-tailed fox was once the wife of Xia Yu, the first generation of Xia Dynasty. ?
unofficial history records that Xia Yu passed through Tu Shan to control water and heard a white fox singing (the official record is the Tu Shan clan, which may take the Kyubi no Youko fox as its totem) "Suisui White Fox, Kyubi no Youko Pang Pang. Get married and become a room, and I will make it prosperous. " So they got married in Tu Shan, and with the help of Kyubi no Youko, the Xia Dynasty was established. It is also said that Kyubi no Youko is a symbol of disaster, and Su Daji in the Romance of the Gods is regarded as the incarnation of the nine-tailed fox.