When you talk about the nine-tailed fox, everyone will think of Su Daji, the queen of Shangyi. The nine-tailed fox in "Fengshen Yanyi" turned into a concubine, charmed the king of Yin, and caused chaos in the world, but finally died tragically under the gavel of Jiang Taigong, and was also used to describe the most beautiful and worst woman.
Eastern Han Dynasty Bangu "White Tiger Tongde Treatise On Feng Zen": "Dezhi Bird beast is Phoenix Huangxiang, Bird Dance, Qilin Zhen, White Tiger To, Fox Nine Tails, White Pheasant Descending, White Deer See, White Bird Under." What is the Fox Nine Tails? The fox died on the first hill, not forgetting Benye, and Ming'an did not forget the danger. Must the Nine Tails also? The nine concubines have their place, and their children and grandchildren will also flourish. Where is the tailer? Ming Hou Dang Sheng also. ”
However, in the pre-Qin period, the nine-tailed fox was regarded as a beast, and the nine-tailed fox was an auspicious omen for the achievement of the great cause of the emperor and the life of the Ming Emperor, and it was also the praise of heaven for the implementation of moral government by the king of Ren, and at the same time there was an auspicious meaning of the prosperity of his descendants.
On the Han Dynasty stone carved bricks, the nine-tailed fox appears as a companion image of the Queen Mother of the West, which has the meaning of warding off evil spirits and is an auspicious image. At the same time, in the sun-moon system, the nine-tailed fox and the three-legged crow appear in the sun wheel, symbolizing "yang". The Nine-Tailed Fox, the Three-legged Crow, the Toad, and the Jade Rabbit are the four beasts in the West Queen Mother system, which proves that the Nine-tailed Fox is a Beast rather than a Demon.
Portrait brick of the Queen Mother of Hanxi
Tang Zhang's "Chao Ye You Zai" wrote: "Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the people have been troubled by fox gods, and the sacrifices in the houses are begging for grace, and the food and drink are the same as those of the people, and the people are not the same master. At that time, there was a proverb: no fox charm, no village. ”
Unfortunately, with the passage of time, the nine-tailed fox is no longer the representative of Xiangrui. Although fox gods and celestial foxes were popular in the Tang Dynasty, they were already demonized. It is also this kind of excessive worship that makes people's admiration for the nine-tailed fox turn into disgust.
The image of the nine-tailed fox spirit of the "Fengshen Yanyi" has deeply rooted the ancient concept of fox charmers into the hearts of the people, and pushed the idea of female calamity of "female color and subjugation of the country" to the extreme. However, these disasters of national subjugation, using "female color" to top the cylinder, are too exaggerated and biased. Just pity the women of that era, and have to put on the shackles of confinement.
Although there is a period of black history, there is no three-legged Jinwu business way, fell off the altar. But I also have to admit that the nine-tailed fox was originally a theosophical beast. The hat of the "fox charming disaster country" can be taken off, and the pot ash of the nine-tailed fox should also be shaken!