The connotation of fox demon's surname
Judging from the strange novels in Tang Dynasty, besides Hu, Zhao, Zhang, Bai and Kang, there are also surnames such as Li, Wang, Xiao, Ren, Zheng, Cui, Gao and Dugu.
Now that the fox demon has become a human being, the mortal's surname can be available, but the fox demon's surname sometimes implies special significance.
Li, Cui, Wang, Zheng and Lu are the five most important surnames in the Tang Dynasty, so some fox demons in the story will also take the most important surnames as their surnames, which should mean committing themselves to noble families.
In the biography of Ren, the female fox demon surnamed Ren. Anyone who is appointed is also a person. This is the author's suggestion, the stone man, the fox's woman, is a humane fox.
In Xuanshizhi, the fox demon who claims to be a scholar is lonely. His orphan family was a Xianbei native of the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was also named in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The relationship between the orphan and the fox should be related to its glyph, because the independent radical of the cover is scorpion and the orphan part is melon, and the two together are fox characters.
There are many foxes in the novel notes of Qing Dynasty, and their surnames are also the richest. Besides the above, there are many others. Such as yellow, flower, red, leather, India, Li, Mi and other surnames, or colors related to foxes; Or related to local slang; Or ask the goddess what her surname is to express her beauty; Or his surname is related to fox or fake.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio describes a large group of beautiful and affectionate fox women, each with a nice name, such as Jiao Na, Ying Ning, Lianxiang, Redjade, Cui Xian and Changting. The author intends to describe the beautiful fox with human feelings, so he is also ingenious in naming it, so that its name complements reality.