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Su Daji, often just known as Daji, was a malevolent fox spirit in Chinese mythology, popularised and playing central roles in various stories and novels, such as the Ming Dynasty novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. In the latter novel, the spirit that would become Daji is summoned by the goddess Nuwa alongside two others, Pipa Jing and Jiutou Zhiji Jing, to cause havoc and chaos for King Zhou of Shang after his insult against her within her own temple.<br/><br/> Originally a daughter from the Su noble family, Daji had been promised to King Zhou as a peace prize. While on her way to Zhaoge, the capital city of the Shang Dynasty, she was killed and possessed by the thousand-year-old vixen spirit, who went on to bewitch King Zhou and become his favourite consort. King Zhou became obsessed with her, neglecting his duties to keep her company. King Zhou became increasingly more debauched and cruel in his attempts to please her, with the fox spirit making him torture others for her amusement, inventing myriad methods and instuments of torture.<br/><br/> Daji was blamed for the eventual fall of the Shang Dynasty due to her bewitching of King Zhou. When King Wu of Zhou eventually rose up in revolt with the aid of the resentful common people, he destroyed the Shang Dynasty. Su Daji was caught as she attempted to flee, and was exorcised by nobleman and sage Jiang Ziya, dying eventually.
Pipa Jing was a fictional character in the Ming Dynasty novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. She was a <i>yaojing</i> (demon/spirit) changed from a jade pipa (musical instrument), summoned by the Chinese goddess Nuwa to bring chaos to the Shang Dynasty after King Zhou of Shang insulted her within her own temple.<br/><br/> Alongside two other spectres, Su Daji and Jiutou Zhiji Jing, Pipa Jing changed her form to that of an exceptionally attractive young woman and went to bewitch King Zhou and the people of Shang. She was killed when she tried to get her fortune read by Jiang Ziya, a Chinese nobleman. Sensing that Pipa Jing actually was an evil spirit, he exposed her for what she really was and killed her by unleashing a 'triple divine fire', combined with 'shattering lightning'.<br/><br/> Pipa Jing was eventually revived five years later by Su Daji, after the vixen spirit gathered the essence of both moon and sun and combined them.
Jiutou Zhiji Jing is a fictional character from the classic Ming Dynasty novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. A <i>yaojing</i> (spirit/demon), she was changed from a pheasant with nine heads to a seductive young woman by the goddess Nuwa, and tasked to create chaos for King Zhou of Shang after he had insulted Nuwa.<br/><br/> Alongside spectres Pipa Jing and Su Daji, Jiutou Zhiji Jing was sent to bewitch and cause havoc for the people of Shang. During a banquet, she and her fellow fox spirits' true forms were revealed and their homes were set alight, killing all of them except for Zhiji Jing, who fled to the mountains and managed to survive. She was eventually found by Su Daji and returned to Zhaoge, the capital city of Shang, in an even more beautiful form. There, she and Su Daji bewitched and became King Zhou's personal consorts.