There are many myths and legends in the world, the more distant things are, mainly because the time is too long, when it is passed down by word of mouth, it is easy to make mistakes, after having written records, it is relatively better, but the things of the ancient times should not be changed. There are many such characters in Western mythology, such as Egypt has a sphinx, Europe also has a mermaid, centaur (human head horse body), Sati (the lower body is a huge goat, but has a human torso and arms, the size of a human being), and China also has a lot, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" records a lot of such monsters, such as enlightened beasts (nine tiger body), Lingyu (human face fish body), nine phoenix (human face nine bird body) and so on, of course, the most familiar is the nine-tailed fox.
The nine-tailed fox has also experienced a process from an auspicious symbol to a yokai, and the nine-tailed fox has also been introduced by neighboring countries, such as Japan, which has put the nine-tailed fox into many film and television works and anime, such as the strongest tailed beast nine lamas in "Naruto" is a nine-tailed fox. In China, the nine-tailed fox in two places is more famous, one is the Qingqiu nine-tailed fox, and the other is the Tushan nine-tailed fox. The Nine-tailed Fox of Qingqiu is from the Classic of Mountains and Seas:
The mountain of green hills has beasts, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, its sound is like a baby, it can eat people, and the eaters are not deceived
。 The Tushan Nine-tailed Fox is from the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhao Ye's "WuYue Chunqiu Yue Wang Wuyu Biography":
Yu Thirty did not marry, traveled to Tu Mountain, feared the twilight of the time, lost his moderation, and was Ciyun:
"If I marry, I will have a response."
"There is a white fox with nine tails made of Yu.
Yu Yue:
"White, my service also."
Its nine-tailed one, the king's proof also. ”
Compared with the Tushan Nine-tailed Fox, people are more familiar with the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox, because the vast majority of the stories that have been handed down to future generations are Qingqiu Nine-tailed Foxes, so that many people have no impression of tushan Nine-tailed Foxes, and in "Liaozhai Zhiyi Qingfeng", there are also old fox spirits who call themselves "I Tushan Clan Miao Descendants".
And these two nine-tailed foxes are also very different in nature, the Tushan nine-tailed fox symbolizes power and justice, and the Qingqiu nine-tailed fox symbolizes evil and fox charm. According to the "Wu Yue Chunqiu" record, Dayu married his wife after the age of thirty, married to the tushan clan's female jiao, thirty years old marriage in modern times is already an older and late marriage youth, not to mention in ancient times five thousand years ago, so why is it difficult for Dayu to get married late? Because Dayu wanted to control water, in the era of Yao Shunyu, there was a great flood, the people were displaced, in order to be able to save the people and water and fire, Dayu took the task of controlling water after his father Kun Zhishui failed.
Five thousand years ago, the water control is not the same as now, even if the technology is so developed now, there will still be a threat of flooding, and the situation faced by Dayu is more complicated, the Dayu era is still the period of tribal alliances, the place where the Yellow River that produced the great flood flows is the location of different tribes, and Dayu needs to get the approval of these tribes if it needs to be dredged. Therefore, Dayu Zhishui was struggling, and when he reached the Tushan clan, which is now the territory of Anhui, Dayu met Tu Shan's female concubine. The Tushan clan is a very powerful tribe in Dongyi, and after Dayu married Tushan's princess daughter, Tushan became a powerful helper to Dayu. So with the help of the Tushan clan, Dayu's progress in controlling water accelerated, and eventually the flood that plagued the people was subdued, and Dayu was also elected as the leader of the tribal alliance for this credit. With the support of the Tushan clan, Dayu became the leader of the tribal alliance and made an alliance, and all the tribes of all sizes came to the alliance, and Dayu was much more powerful than during the Yao Shun period, which also had the credit of the Tushan clan.
When Dayu died, Boyi became the leader of the tribal alliance, but Dayu's son Qi, with the support of his own tribe and his mother's tribe, fought against Boyi, and eventually Kai defeated Boyi and became the new leader of the tribal alliance, so Qi established the Xia Dynasty and became the family world, rather than Zen.
In the process of Da Yu zhishui and Qi establishing the Xia Dynasty, Tu Shan's help was the greatest, which also confirmed the record of Tu Shan's nine-tailed fox in the "Wu Yue Chunqiu":
Its nine-tailed one, the king's proof also
Dayu and his son Qi were able to build a career with the help of tushan nine-tailed foxes and establish the Xia Dynasty.
And the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox is different, Qingqiu this place in China where there is no conclusive evidence to prove, according to legend in the territory of present-day Heze, Shandong, there are also said in the territory of Suzhou, Jiangsu, in fact, these two places are not far from Tushan, perhaps the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox itself is a branch of the Tushan Nine-tailed Fox, but it is blackened for various reasons.
The most famous of the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox should be Su Daji, of course, Su Daji herself is not a nine-tailed fox, but is possessed by a nine-tailed fox, and the whole person's temperament has changed greatly, and she has been sent by Lady Nuwa to harm the King of Shang. The historical Su Daji is not surnamed Su, but his own surname, the character Da, has the daughter of the Su tribe, known as "Su Daji". Regarding the origin of Su Daji, it is recorded in the "Zuo Biography" that in 1047 BC, because the Su tribe had a lot of criticism of the King of Shang, the King of Shang launched a large army to attack the Yousu tribe. Some Su tribes could not resist the attack of powerful merchant armies, and between destruction and bending their knees, some Su tribal leaders chose to bend their knees and sacrifice cattle and sheep, horses and beautiful women.
Su Daji is a beautiful woman, of course, because she is very young, the King of ShangYi was already sixty years old when he attacked Su Shi, and when he saw Su Daji, who was twenty or eight years old, he naturally couldn't hold himself, so he spoiled Su Daji, Su Daji was also a snake and scorpion beauty physiologically, and the King of Shangyi did a lot of things that hurt nature and reason in order to please Su Daji.
In order to please Su Daji, the King of Lu sent people to collect the world's rare treasures and rare birds and beasts, built a deer platform to place treasures, built a deer garden to imprison these beasts, and the two people drank all night to watch the beasts and treasures.
Treating people, Su Daji is also very cruel, she saw someone walking barefoot on the ice in winter, she thought that this person's physiological structure was special, so she cut off his feet to study the reasons for not being afraid of winter, although this curiosity is good, but this practice is very cruel. In addition, in order to verify the pregnant women of men and women, Su Daji opened the pregnant women's stomachs to check, buried the lives of the pregnant women, and the loyal minister Bigan, who also instigated the king of Su Daji to order Bi Gan to cut the abdomen, in order to verify the legendary "the heart of the saint has seven tricks" theory. In the case of Su Daji's misdeeds, the King of Shang also eventually went to the end, and was eventually eliminated by King Wu of Zhou, the King of Shang also committed suicide, and Su Daji was also killed by King Wu of Zhou.
The nine-tailed fox on Su Daji's body in the myth and legend was criticized for going too far when he went to revive his life with The Lady after the Wu King's harvest, so he also went to extinction.
It can be said that the nine-tailed fox of the Tushan clan flourished the Xia Dynasty, while the Qingqiu nine-tailed fox plagued the Shang Dynasty and led to the demise of the Shang Dynasty. The reason why there is such a legend, probably because the Tushan clan and the totem of the Su clan are all nine-tailed foxes, so there is a legend that Dayu married a nine-tailed fox, and the King of Shangyu was confused by the nine-tailed fox, in fact, it still depends on himself, if Dayu has no ability, even if he marries a nine-tailed fox, it is useless, if the King of Shangyu is righteous, even if there is a nine-tailed fox on the side, it cannot be affected. The key is to stand up straight and not to push the responsibility to women, which is unfair to both women and goblins.