The Six Philosophies of the Notes on Reading Wei Caotang

【Liu Zhe】Mr. Ji Xiaolan said to himself——

Zhou Taiyu said: There is a person named Liu Zhe, who previously fell in love with a fox girl, and later took the fox girl as a wife who filled the house. The fox girl takes care of the housework, just like a normal person. Filial piety to the in-laws, harmony, and raising the children of the ex-wife are like biological children, which is even more rare. The fox girl died of old age, and the corpse did not change back to the appearance of the fox. Someone said: "She was originally a fugitive woman, deliberately concealing the truth, pretending to be a fox girl." Someone said, "Actually, she is still a fox girl, and she has cultivated to become a human being, but she has not yet become an immortal, so she has died of old age." She has been freed from her original appearance, so that after death the corpse is the same as a person. ”

I said, "Not really. It's just that her mind can completely make her keep her human appearance. The appearance of a great mortal can change with the mind. Empress Xi turned into a python, and Feng Junjun became a tiger, but their minds had already become python hearts and tiger hearts, so their appearances had also become pythons and tigers. According to the old saying, the fox was originally transformed by the adulteress Ah Zi. Man has a fox heart, and man can become a fox; a fox has a heart, so a fox can also become a man. Monks and Taoists, some of them do not fall down when they sit down; some loyal and martyr women, some of them do not decay after death, but the spirit maintains their image. This fox girl does not deform after death, it belongs to this category! ”

Tae-woo said, "That's credible. Legend has it that when Liu Zhe first married a fox girl, he could not be without doubts in his heart. The fox girl said, 'If you want a wife, you just have to be fit to manage the housework, if you can manage the housework, what is the difference between a fox and a person?' And people only know that they are afraid of fox spirits, but they do not know that they are often accompanied by fox spirits. What is the difference between a woman who behaves unruly and makes a man sick and short-lived, and a fox who is brilliant? What is the difference between the kind of woman who steals chickens and dogs, secretly steals love, and the lasciviousness of fox spirits? What is the difference between the woman who stirs up dissension and divides the family, and the deception of the fox spirit? What is the difference between a woman who steals domestic property and gives it to a loved one and a fox thief? What is the difference between the kind of woman who quarrels and scolds and makes the six relatives uneasy, and the harassment of the fox spirit? How can you not be afraid of those women, but afraid of me? The heart of this fox girl has long been above man, and it is no wonder that she began according to the life of man and ended according to the death of man. The women she was talking about, who resembled fox spirits, went through the six reincarnations of Hades, and according to their thoughts and virtues, they were afraid that after they were reborn, they would inevitably fall into foxes. (The story is from "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang")