The legend of the nine tailed fox is real and weird

The nine-tailed fox is a legendary mythical beast, and there is currently no scientific proof to confirm that the nine-tailed fox is a real species. The nine-tailed fox comes from the ancient book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" compiled during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is often used to symbolize auspiciousness. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records many geographical knowledge and ancient myths in folklore.

What is a nine-tailed foxThe most basic feature of the image of the nine-tailed fox is the "nine-tailed". The nine-tailed fox has a complex cultural connotation. It is an animal image that often appears in ancient Chinese literature, and is always associated with mystical culture.

The description of the nine-tailed fox in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is: "There are beasts in the mountains of Qingqiu, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eater is not Gu." ”

Among the many animal images, the characteristics of the nine-tailed fox image are distinct, and the social coverage is also extremely broad, and it is well known to all households, women and children. Like other literary imagery, the nine-tailed fox image has undergone a long process of development, and it has its own life archetype, and there is differentiation and evolution on the basis of the archetype.

A strange beast in ancient East Asian mythology and legend.

In classical legend, the nine-tailed fox is a four-legged monster with fiery red fluff all over its body.

Good change, bewitching.

Sex likes to eat people, and often uses its baby crying sound to attract people to explore.

When the nine-tailed fox comes out, there will be chaos in the world.

Dayu came to Tushan According to the examination in Song County, Henan Province, met a nine-tailed white fox, and heard the Tushan people singing, saying "Suisui white fox, Pang Pang nine-tailed", if you are here "start a family", will be prosperous, so Dayu married a girl from Tushan, called Nujiao.

Because the myth was recorded very late, it was obviously added to the ideological and cultural concepts of later generations, if its original appearance was restored, it was Dayu who married the nine-tailed white fox as his wife in Tushan.

The hidden cultural significance behind this ** marriage myth is that the Tushan clan is a tribe with the nine-tailed fox as a totem, and the nine-tailed white fox is regarded as its ancestor by the Tushan clan.

Because the nine-tailed fox has such a beautiful thing, the fox spirits of the future generations always like to proudly say that they are descendants of Tu Shan and show off the nobility of their bloodline.

In the Han Dynasty, the idea of talismans prevailed, so the nine-tailed fox, which was originally a totem god, was also talismanized and became a mysterious symbol of auspiciousness.

In the stone carvings and brick paintings of the Han Dynasty, there are often nine-tailed foxes and white rabbits, toads, and three-legged black rabbits, and they are engraved next to the West Queen Mother's seat to show auspiciousness.

Historically, the Dongyi people worshipped fox fairies.

According to the article "Mountains and Seas Passing Overseas East Longitude and Geographical Survey", Qingqiu Kingdom, Heizhi Country, and Ten Days Kingdom are all in the Rizhao Linyi area of Dongyi people.

Merchants like the nine-tailed fox, and Zhuhai is the ancestor of the merchants, who also lived here.

Legend has it that all living beings in the world can be cultivated into immortals, and foxes are naturally among them.

Every twenty years of cultivation, the fox will grow an extra tail, and when it has nine tails, even if the merit is complete, even the heavenly immortals have to give up three points.

However, this ninth tail is extremely difficult to cultivate, when the fox cultivates to the eighth tail, it will get a hint to help its owner fulfill a wish, after the wish is completed, a new tail will grow, but the previous tail will also fall off, still eight tails. This seems to be a strange cycle of death, and it is impossible to cultivate to nine tails no matter what.

There is a very pious fox that has been cultivating for hundreds of years, and I don't know how many people have fulfilled their wishes, but it still has eight tails, and it complained to the Buddha, how can it cultivate and attain the Tao in this way?

The Buddha just smiled and didn't answer, and he had to continue cultivating.

One day, when it returned to the village where it was hiding in a storm, it encountered a teenager who was besieged by wolves, and with its creation, of course, drove away the wolves without much effort, and saved the boy, and later found that the boy was the offspring of its first owner.

According to the rules, it needs to help the boy fulfill a wish, then shed a tail and grow a new one, continuing its cycle of death.

Of course, the boy was ecstatic, the legend of the nine-tailed fox has been circulating in the local area for I don't know how many years, and how fortunate he is to become the owner of the eight-tailed fox, and there is a wish that can be fulfilled no matter how extravagant it is!

The eight-tailed fox asked the boy what his wish was, but he didn't come out for a while, so in the next few days, the boy carefully got along with the eight-tails, and found that in addition to the indifference in his eyes to see through the world, there was actually a little sadness. When he learned the secret of the Dead Loop, he felt pity for this powerful fox.

Finally, one day, the eight-tailed fox asked the boy what he wanted.

The boy thought for a moment and asked"Can any wish come true? "

The boy then said word by word"Well, my wish is that you can have nine tails. "

The fox froze, his eyes filled with doubt, followed by an indescribable look of gratitude. It leaned down and licked the boy's hand, it was warm.

As a result, the eight-tailed fox grew a gorgeous ninth tail and became a real nine-tailed fox, and the young man's life was also very happy.

This is the end of the story. It turns out that the heavenly opportunity to attain enlightenment is like this, and only when it meets a person who is willing to make it perfect, can it have nine tails.

In the past, people were selfishly thinking about themselves, thinking that it was right to fulfill any wish for them, and never considered the fox's feelings, but each tail had to pay hundreds of years of cultivation.