The Huli Jing in Chinese Literary Tradition
- Date of account
- Early Chinese mythic references; major literary and religious development from the medieval period
- Location
- China
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The huli jing is a Chinese fox spirit often capable of assuming human form, cultivating spiritual power and influencing human relationships. Earlier nine-tailed fox imagery, medieval anecdotal collections and later popular fiction present different versions of the figure, including benevolent, erotic, dangerous and morally ambiguous forms. It matters comparatively because transformation is tied to cultivation, longevity, gendered suspicion and the permeability of human and animal categories. The term is not a single stable folklore entity across all historical periods. AI-recalled; source quality 5; corroboration 0.
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