![]() ![]() The creature's name is pronounced fūri in Japanese, but (erroneously) glossed as kazetanuki ( 風貍/かぜたぬき) or 'wind racoon dog' in the Wakan sansai zue, due to the fact that li (simplified character: 狸) is commonly read as tanuki by the Japanese. The fengli article was originally a sub-article within the preceding leopard cat article. The beast fengli ( 风狸 風狸 /風貍 ), literally 'wind leopard cat', is described under that title in the Bencao Gangmu (1782). The jiqu ( 狤□ jí qū), which reputedly ate perfume ( Indian frankincense, or mastic) was described as a separate beast in the original source, but has been equated with the fengli by the Bencao gangmu. Its urine purportedly was effective against leprosy, according to the old Chinese pharmacopoeia. Otherwise, only by rupturing its brain and breaking its bones could it be killed completely. But plugging its nose with the sweet flag (root portion) was considered lethal to it. It is supposedly immune to cutting by blade, or burning by fire. It is also said to die easily by striking, but such death is feigned, and it will revive momentarily upon receiving wind upon it. It is said to carry a magical wand (or a broken stalk of grass), which when pointed at a prey can cause it to fall off a tree (cf. The fengli has a number of lore attached to it. The beast lore could have been based on actual fauna the fengli may in fact have been the colugo according to one hypothesis, or a palm civet or a slow loris according to others. The fengli bears a number of other aliases, including fengmu ( 风母 風母 fēng mǔ Japanese: fūbo, literally "wind mother"), fengshengshou ( 风生兽 風生獸 fēng shēng shòu, ), pinghou ( 平猴 píng hóu, 'flat monkey'), etc.Ī collated account of the fengli is given in the Bencao gangmu (1596), under its "Four Legged Animals II" section, but it misstates some alias names and work titles, drawing from such sources as the entry for " fengmu" in the encyclopedia Taiping yulan (c. Sources say that its alias fengshengshou favors eating spiders. ![]() It is capable of flying or gliding across trees or jutted rocks, eating fruits. Alternate sources say the beast resembles a vanishingly short-tailed monkey, or a rabbit. The beast is described as resembling a dark-colored or blue-green (or greenish yellow and black) animal spotted like a leopard but smaller, about the size of a wildcat ( leopard cat) or marten. It is called fūri by Japanese sources dating back to the Edo period. Fengli (simplified Chinese: 风狸 traditional Chinese: 風狸/風貍 pinyin: fēng lí, literally ' wind leopard cat') is a legendary or mythified flying mammal of China, whose descriptions from various sources were collated in the Taiping Yulan encyclopedia (10th century ) and the Bencao gangmu (16th century) compendium of materia medica.
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