The people of this tribe can turn into tigers, and have long been mixed in human society At the confluence of the two rivers of the Yangtze River and the Han River, there is a tribe of chū people. The Jurchens claimed to be descendants of the Emperor. The Cat has a special skill that enables them to turn into tigers. Tigers were plagued by tigers in Donggaokou Village, Man County, Changsha County, so the villagers made wooden cages to catch tigers. One day, the villagers found that the mechanism of the wooden cage had been triggered, so the villagers met to go to the wooden cage to catch the tiger. However, when the villagers came to the front of the trap, they did not find a tiger in the wooden cage, but saw a man dressed as a pavilion chief sitting in the wooden cage. This man wears a big hat and a red turban. Curious, the villager asked the man, "Why are you in a wooden cage?" The chief of the pavilion replied very angrily: "Yesterday I was summoned by the county to report to the government, and when I passed by here last night, it suddenly rained heavily, and I hid in this wooden cage in order to avoid the rain, but it turned out to be a trap, so you let me out." The villagers in Donggaokou were suspicious of the pavilion chief's words, so they asked him again: "You have been summoned by the county, should there be a summons document?" Let's take a look. The pavilion chief immediately took out the summoning documents from his arms and showed them to the villagers. When the villagers saw the paperwork, they released the pavilion chief from the wooden cage. After the pavilion grew out, when the villagers were not paying attention, they actually turned into tigers, and then ran into the mountains at a speed that was too fast to cover their ears. Only then did the villagers realize that the pavilion chief was a man. Some people who have seen the pig people have summed up some of the characteristics of the pig people: "The people who the tiger has become like to wear purple coarse cloth clothes, and their feet have no heels. If a tiger is found to have five toes, it is a tiger. ”
Comment: The Fenren are ethnic minority tribes in the Jianghan River Basin and can turn into tigers. Or it can also be said that the tiger can become a person, the two should be a two-in-one relationship, it is difficult to distinguish which is the ontology. If you do not take the story of the tiger turning into a tiger as a legend, combined with the records of this article, it is possible that the tribe of the tiger is a totem, and usually likes to wear tiger clothes, similar to the coat of the lion dance, so it is falsely said that the people can become tigers. Of course, it is also quite interesting to look at this story as a legend. The tiger in the text should not have fallen into the trap of humans for the first time, so in the face of humans who came to capture themselves, they could calmly make up the ghost story that they were civil servants on a business trip to the county, not only that, but the preparation of the tiger was very well prepared, and even the documents of the signs were prepared. This shows that this tiger should have been mixed up in human society for a long time, otherwise it would not have such an understanding of the system of human society.
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The original text of the Search God Record: In the domain of Jianghan, there are chū people. First, the Miao descendants of the Emperor also. Can turn into a tiger. The residents of Donggao County, which belong to Changsha, once made a fence to catch tigers, and the fence was haired, and tomorrow everyone went to the fence together, and saw a pavilion long, red, big crown, sitting in the column. He asked, "Why did you get into this?" The pavilion chief said angrily: "Yesterday I was summoned by the county to avoid the rain at night, so I mistakenly entered this place." Rush out of me. "Jun, see the summons, should there be a document?" "That is, out of the arms to summon the instrument. And so it was. Looking for sight, it is turned into a tiger and walking up the mountain. Or Yun: "The tiger is transformed into a human, dressed in purple kudzu, and its feet have no heels." The tiger has five fingers, and all of them are cats. ”
Disclaimer: The Book of Search for God is a book by the Eastern Jin Dynasty historian Gan Bao (?) —336 AD) created a novel, in terms of the age of creation, there are nearly 1700 years of history, during this period, Chinese mythological stories are also a process of continuous evolution and completion, the character image described and the mainstream image of today will inevitably deviate. Therefore, this article is mainly for the reading notes made in the original text of the Search God Record, mainly based on the translation of the original text and the filling of the brain hole. Due to the limited level of personal knowledge, the translation of some words is inevitably not accurate enough, and for some of the character stories in the text outside the "Search for God", the understanding is not too comprehensive, and it is inevitable that there will be omissions when narrating.