狐在我国古代是一种常见的动物,古人对此早有认识。现存最早的书籍如《尚书》、《诗经》、《周易》及《左传》中,都有狐的记载。或许由于狐这种动物动作灵活、敏捷,性格活泼、聪明的缘故,人们把狐看作较有灵性的动物,如《礼记·檀弓》:“古之人有言:‘狐死正首丘,仁也。’”在战国人的著作里,出现了以狐为原形的神兽,如《山海经·南山经第一》:“青丘之山,……有兽焉,其状如狐而九尾,其音如婴儿,能食人,食者不蛊。”《穆天子传》中也说:“天子猎于渗泽,得白狐玄貉,祭于河宗。”《瑞应编》:“九尾狐者,神兽也。其状赤色,四足九尾,出青丘之国,音如婴儿,食者令人不逢妖邪之气及蛊毒之类。”从此,狐便被赋予作怪变异的能力。东汉赵晔《吴越春秋》中载有禹 Fox in ancient China is a common animal, the ancients had long known. The earliest extant books such as Shangshu, The Book of Songs, The Book of Changes, and Zuo Zhuan contain fox records. Perhaps because foxes are animals that are agile, agile, lively and clever, foxes are regarded as more spiritual animals, such as “Book of Rites, Tan Gong”: “ First Hill, Ren also. ’ In the Warring States in the book, appeared to fox as the original animal, such as ”Shan Hai Jing · Nanshan by the first“: ”Green hill hills, ... ... animal Yan, its like Such as fox and nine tail, the sound as a baby, can eat cannibalism, eaters do not insane. “” Mu Biography “also said: ” emperor hunt to infiltrate, have white fox Xuan Zang, offerings in Hezong. “Rui should be compiled”: “Nine foxes, animal beings also. Its shape red, four-legged nine, out of the country Qiuqiu, sound such as baby, eater evil and mad poison gas and the like . ”Since then, foxes have been given the ability to mutate. Eastern Han Zhao Ye “Wu Yue” contained in autumn