Fox Fairy
The old cat and fox carries the child on its back
Author: Yang Henghai
In the hundreds of miles around Weishan Lake, there is a popular mantra to scare disobedient children: "If you don't obey again, let the old cat and fox carry you away." The old cat fox mentioned here is vixen . The story of the old cat and the fox carrying a child is indeed true.
According to legend, Nuwa EmpressAfter Butianti died, her intestines turned into ten gods. These ten gods are named " Nuwa's Intestine ", They have inherited Nuwa's soul wisdom , all of them have vast magical powers and high abilities. They also inherited the empress Nuwa's thoughtfulness and compassion for the people. Among them was the seventh god, also known as the Seven Gods. He once rescued an injured fox and placed the fox in his fairyland. He treated its wounds and fed it nurturing food. gradually fell in love with the fox and raised it as a pet. This fox is also very smart, very good at observing people, imitating humans . It stayed with the Seven Gods for a long time, and it learned the magic of magic without knowing it. It also feeds on the essence of the sun, moon, rain and dew for a long time, and breathes out the true energy of the fairyland. Soon it becomes a vixen, able to speak human language, and able to do human things. But , this vixen's nature is hard to change , is very naughty , often sneaks around , occasionally hurts others , stirs up people in peace.
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Fuxi Temple is surrounded by rolling mountains to the north, and to the south of the temple is an endless micro mountain lake. The mountains and lakes complement each other , and the temple and spring are adjacent to each other. There are four large natural caves on Phoenix Mountain, which look like four gates from a distance, so local people also call this mountain Simendong Mountain. The mountain is shrouded in haze, is covered with green pines , There is glossy soft and fluffy green grass growing in front of the slope of the cave gate, the spring under the mountain is ding-dong , the beautiful bamboos , the vixen can’t help but notice the mountain. High , The trees are lush , The mountain stream is murmuring , The clear water is dancing with beads , It is really a paradise , It takes advantage of the Seven Gods to go out to practice , Went to live in the cave . However, the fox did not want to farm or fish, and had nothing to eat, so he started stealing.
There is a village called Chenzhuang not far to the north of Fuxi Temple. The descendants of the Nuwa Empress live in the village. In accordance with the instructions of Empress Nuwa, they used sika deer skins as betrothal gifts and married men and women to reproduce themselves. A family named Feng in Zhuangshang , gave birth to a boy shortly after getting married. The child was white and fat , extremely cute. Today , My husband went out hunting , It will take a few days to come back , The child was fussy and crying , Mrs. Feng coaxed the child and said : " Baby, don’t cry , Baby farewell , Mom will take you to grandma’s house tomorrow, and ask grandma to make delicious for you. " The child stopped crying after hearing this. Unexpectedly, these words were heard by the vixen outside the house. The vixen has eaten all the chickens in the village in the past few days, and is planning how to eat this white and fat child.
Dongtian Blessed Land
So , the vixen turned into a girl in yellow clothes , walked into Sister Feng’s house . The fox spirit saw Sister Feng holding the child, and said to : "Sister , What a coincidence, I have been missing you these days, Let me pick you up. style The sister-in-law was very happy when she heard that the Empress asked her to go home. She thought it was the Empress Nuwa who sent her. But when I turned around and thought about it, it was unlikely that I had never returned to my parents' home after getting married.
Chenzhuang and Fuxi Temple are not far apart, and I have never seen this girl in yellow clothes. Then he asked the vixen: "Sister, why haven't I seen you?"
The vixen could see through Feng's thoughts at a glance. She was afraid that her child would be deceived.. quickly said : "Sister, you are so busy that you have forgotten. I am the seventeenth sister. I have seven sisters, nine brothers, and a group of younger brothers and sisters."
Sister Feng has been confusing the children these days, I can't remember it at the moment. I thought that Nuwa's mother-in-law must have come , said : " Sister , Please wait a moment , I will change my clothes , wash my face, let's go together. " vixen sees through again Wind's mind , said : " sister , , you wash your face in the house and change 5. clothes, I play with the little nephew at the door. Okay, , , don't go far at the door., I will change immediately." Mrs. Feng was listening to them playing in the yard, and she quickly changed her clothes.
After a while , Sister Feng came out but there was no child , Seventeenth sister was also gone, and she hurriedly rushed to Fuxi Temple. As soon as I entered the yard, I saw loess flying all over the sky like a heavy fog, and there were no people on the other side. Mrs. Feng asked loudly: "Where is my child?" The vixen said: "In the mother-in-law's room." The dust was flying in front of my eyes. She couldn't see anything but could hear the sound of children playing, which made her feel relieved.
A gust of wind blew away the dust , People were coming and going in the yard , Still the child was missing Sister Feng asked Seventeenth Sister again: "Where is your nephew?"
The vixen said slyly : " He asked his uncle to take him up the mountain to play, and would come back soon. " Mrs. Feng was dubious and couldn't say anything else.
At dinner time , there was a pot of braised whole pig on the table. Mrs. Feng looked at the pig's trotters like a child's hands and burst into tears. She thought she was dazzled, so she rubbed her eyes and looked again, and saw that it was pig's trotters again. She kept asking the vixen for children. While eating the meat, the vixen said: "The child is playing with his uncle, and he will be back soon.." In fact, the vixen has already eaten the child, and she also wants to trick Sister Feng into working for him and bring her into the cave to cook for him. Rice!
Fuxi Temple
When it was getting dark, Mrs. Feng heard the faint sound of a child crying in her ears, and asked Sister Seventeen: "It's time for the child to come back, and he hasn't eaten yet? If he doesn't come back, I'll be very anxious." "
The vixen said: "Sister, don't worry., You should take a break and get some sleep., If they come back, , I will wake you up. If they don't come back, we will go up the mountain to look for them tomorrow. When you sleep at night, just sleep on that wooden pillow. . The empress is old. She will sleep on a cloth pillow later. She fell asleep in a daze.
While sleeping , Sister Feng heard the Nuwa Empress saying : " Feng Yatou , The Seventeenth Sister who is holding your child is not from our family. She is a vixen. Your child was eaten by it. It There are ten children hidden in the third hole of the four-door . If you can rescue all the children, your children will be safe and sound. You can change the pillows first, and tomorrow will dawn. Go up the mountain again. When you get to the cave, you have to go inside and look up. Before you go up the mountain tomorrow, bring all the chopsticks and lard in the cupboard, and then do this..." Finished , Empress Nuwa disappeared..
Nuwa Empress
After hearing these words, Mrs. Feng suddenly woke up , She saw that the room was dark , so she quietly replaced the wooden pillow with a cotton pillow, and then pretended to sleep. Not long after, I heard a vixen creeping in , touched the wooden pillow , blew on the pillow , and then slashed at the wooden pillow , just chopped off the old fox's head. . Fox carefully thought that he must have killed Sister Feng this time and would come back to clean up the matter at dawn tomorrow. Mrs. Feng was so frightened that she did not dare to move anymore. She kept her eyes closed until dawn. The vixen transformed into Seventeenth Sister and came to Mrs. Feng's bed.When she walked in, she was shocked. She killed the wrong fox last night and killed her own old fox. When he saw Mrs. Feng opening her eyes and sitting up, she said: "Oh my sister! You are so powerful. Kill the fox that harms the people!" He said in his mouth. , with tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, let alone the regret in his heart.
The fox thought carefully , I killed the old fox mother by mistake , I blame this Sister Feng for changing the pillow , I want to kill Sister Feng to avenge my mother ! was thinking about the poison in her heart , but had a smile on her face , said again : " sister , Don't you miss the child? I will accompany you up the mountain to find , and look at them. Where to play . "
Sister-in-law Feng is not afraid of anything in order to save the child." says : ", you see , , the fox is dead in the house , right?" L5
Fox replied to : " is also good , is full of house fishy . "After said that, he dragged the old fox corpse out.
vixen
Mrs. Feng hurriedly ran into the kitchen , hugged a can of lard , took a pair of chopsticks and put them in the basket , and then covered it with a scarf. The vixen came to the house again and asked Sister Feng to go up the mountain with her. Sister Feng followed him out the door with the basket.
When they reached the mountain, the vixen went into the caves one by one, pretending not to see anything. Sister-in-law Feng took out her chopsticks and smeared some lard from the oil can, and then put the chopsticks in the hole. The vixen smelled the smell of lard, and saw that it was his own chopsticks, so he picked up the chopsticks and put them in his mouth to lick them with his tongue. Mrs. Feng hurriedly walked into the third cave , did not find the place where the child was hidden, was worried in her heart. Suddenly I remembered what Nuwa said to go inside and look up. She walked to the end of the cave and looked up. There was a big hole above. She hurriedly climbed in and saw ten children hiding in the cave, all tied up and with their mouths gagged. She let go of the children, picked up the basket, and led them down the mountain..
The vixen licked all the chopsticks in the hole clean. Seeing Mrs. Feng leading ten children to run down the mountain . The vixen chased out , while chasing and shouted: "Sister, don't run , Little children, don't run , I'm here to see you off." Mrs. Feng led the children and ignored it, just trying their best. run. Seeing that the vixen was about to catch up, she took another chopstick, dipped it in lard and threw it on the ground. When the vixen saw that it was his own chopsticks and smelled the scent of lard, he stopped to pick up the chopsticks and lick them. The vixen licked the oil off the chopsticks, and then chased Mrs. Feng and the children.
When she was about to catch up again, Mrs. Feng picked up another chopstick, dipped it in lard, and then stuck the chopsticks in the dirt on the roadside. The vixen wanted to pick up the chopsticks and lick them, but the chopsticks were full of lard and were very slippery. He couldn't pull them out, and he couldn't pick them up, so he had to lie on the ground and lick them. In this way, , Mrs. Feng led the children and ran to the gate of Fuxi Temple. The chopsticks and wild boar oil just happened to be used up, and the vixen also chased him to the temple gate. The parents of the missing children were burning incense and kowtowing in the temple, asking Empress Nuwa to bless their children for their safe return. Suddenly they saw Sister Feng running in with ten children. They couldn't believe it. The children burst into tears when they saw their parents, and said to them: Never be naughty again, and listen to your parents from now on.
百子图——Huang Jun
The vixen was a little scared when he saw so many people in the temple.Immediately she became Seventeenth Sister again, smiled and said to Sister Feng: "Sister , Why are you running , The baby is crying looking for you , Come back with me quickly! "
Sister-in-law Feng wanted to explain clearly to everyone, so she caught the vixen in person. Thinking that her child had not been seen yet, she held back her anger and said: "Isn't the child playing with his uncle? I came back to the cellar.radish. You must be fine." Come home with me and we'll go back after we've finished cellaring the radishes." Fox Jing thought that there were too many people here, so she would wait until she got home, and promised, "Okay, I'll go home with you first."
Mrs. Feng. After entering their own yard, threw the lard can in the basket into the well cellar. When the Seventeenth Sister saw that it was her own lard can, she jumped into the cellar to get it. Mrs. Feng was very angry when she thought of her child being killed. She picked up the stone beside the cellar and threw it down. Seventeenth sister was injured and turned into a vixen again. The vixen dragged his injured leg and held his own lard can, unable to jump up. Sister Feng filled up the well cellar with loess and poured water on it. After a while er, a gourd seedling grew in the cellar. The gourd seedling grew when it saw the wind. Only Hulu .
Gourd - Qi Baishi
Mrs. Feng missed her child and felt very sad. She sat on the ground and couldn't help crying loudly. Empress Nuwa followed the cry to the cellar and said to her: "Girl Feng, don't cry. You have saved ten children, have done so many good deeds, responded to the sentence " accumulate good deeds. Chengxiang", This is equivalent to saving your child." After speaking, he took off the gourd and chanted the incantation. The gourd split from the middle, and a boy rolled out of the gourd. Mrs. Feng saw that it was her child with no injuries at all. Sister Feng picked up the child and thanked Nuwa. Empress Nuwa said: "Evil will be rewarded with evil , Good will be rewarded , But do good deeds , Don't ask about the future . Put away this gourd , Whoever encounters a disaster, as long as take If you find this gourd, you can turn misfortunes into good fortune and turn disasters into good fortune."
Nuwa also called the Seven Gods , to punish him for lax discipline, for causing the local people to suffer this disaster, and asked him to strictly control the foxes. , The fox who made the mistake will be punished without mercy.. From then on , I often heard the sound of punishment in the courtyard around Fuxi Temple. Any fox who stole things and harmed others would be punished. The Fox family is also very grateful to the Nuwa Empress for her kindness in discipline. They often bring their fox sons to the temple to clean the courtyard, and get rid of the mice, poisonous snakes, centipedes and other harmful things around. Pilgrims who come to Fuxi Temple to burn incense burn incense and pay homage to their ancestors in a clean environment.
Fox - Han Meilin
About the author:
Yang Henghai, Fuxi culture research expert and calligrapher, fourth-level researcher of Jining Municipal People's Procuratorate, deputy secretary-general of the Prosecutors Federation of Literary and Art Circles, director of the Chinese Prosecutors Calligraphy and Painting Association, author of "A Preliminary Study on the Origin of Chinese Civilization: Fuxi Culture", "The Legend of Fuxi and Nuwa" and other works.
Graphic editor:
Huang Yansheng, deputy head of the expert advisory group of Jining Fuxi Culture Society, director of Fuxi Culture Professional Committee of Jining Chinese Culture Promotion Association, executive director of Jining Fuxi Culture Research Institute, research on medicinal animals and plants in Qiaocheng District, Bozhou, Anhui Honorary director of the institute, etc.
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