Regarding this strange monster, it appears twice in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but in a different version. Once in the Dongshan Sutra and once in the Zhongshan Sutra.
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Second Classic of the Eastern Ci, 500 miles to the south, is the Mountain of Kaili, a monster called lóng zhì, which looks like a fox, sounds like a baby, has nine heads, nine tails, and the claws of a tiger, and is a man-eating beast.
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Sutra of Zhongshan, the worm (lóng chí) looks like a pig and has horns on its head, and it sounds like a cry, and many scholars think that the two of them are actually animals. But this statement is only a question of the ancients by posterity, without any evidence, after all, it is the mountain range of two areas, it is the difference in the general direction, and it cannot be determined that the ancients made a mistake just because their names are more similar in words, and a name is used twice.
And their looks are still very far apart, so Xiaobian feels that before there is no one hundred percent certainty, it is more appropriate to retain the original appearance of ancient books, even if it is really the mistake of the predecessors, do not casually "forget the ancestors", and often have to reason with the ancients, saying that they are stubborn and superstitious and have no culture. If people of every era want to demand their predecessors by their own standards, then what else should we do with history? If the literati of each era had to change the ancient books and provoke the special habits of the ancients to show their sense of superiority, then the ancient books would be thrown away, because the situation in each era was different.
Picking the faults of the ancients is a pathology, the ancients are the ancients, why should they become the modern look? You are you and I am me, why should I live according to your words? If a "Classic of Mountains and Seas" had to be treated as a biology textbook, and the author also demanded it according to the standards of four or five thousand years later, wouldn't it be very perverted?
So, we must first assume that all this is reasonable, that all this content is justified, and that even if it is only an imaginary work, it is valuable to exist with its rich and great imagination.
There are many nine-headed monsters in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, such as the aforementioned Xiangliu, as well as the Nine Phoenixes, the Nine Babies, and the enlightened beasts that guard the southwest gate of Kunlun Mountain. The cockroach is equivalent to a nine-tailed fox with a nine-headed head, but its claws are tiger claws. If you eat people, it is estimated that it is like a man-eating ant, so many heads together, you can eat people in minutes, only bones are left. Sharp tiger claws can also be used to tear apart flesh and remove bones.
And the grasshopper is equivalent to a big pig with a head horn, and this look alone can eat by the face, but if people fight, they must not be weak, after all, the big horn on the head is not a decoration. Although the names are similar, the only thing they are similar to is that they are both four-hoofed beasts, and they can't be related to dragons because they have dragons in their names.
Most of the man-eating beasts call like babies, such as the nine-tailed fox, such as the calves, and then such as the eagle, the leech is no exception, it barks like a baby who can't speak, and people who don't know think whose child has been abandoned. Although the midge does not eat people, it also sounds very similar to the crying of a child, which is unified between the two of them.