Duhui

Overview

Duhui is the composite beast of Mount Beixiao in the Shanhaijing’s second northern itinerary. Its body resembles a tiger and is white, but its head is a dog’s, its tail a horse’s, and its mane or bristles those of a pig. The name is printed with an uncommon final character. The profile follows the stated body comparisons rather than replacing the dog head with a human face.

The same mountain contains a separate human-faced, crow-like bird that flies at night and hides by day. Those habits do not belong to Duhui. The passage gives the land beast no voice, diet, supernatural effect, or narrated action. Its contrasting animal components make a distinctive textual identity even without a story. A future image match should therefore require the dog head and horse tail as well as the tiger comparison, rather than accepting any white feline picture.

Origins & earliest records

China; Shanhaijing Northern Mountains

Records & interpretation

Named primary-text transcription directly read; exact historical illustration pending.

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1. 01

   Shanhaijing, Northern Mountains

   Anonymous received text

   Second northern itinerary; Mount Beixiao

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1. Primary text transcriptionShanhaijing: Northern Mountains, received primary textResearch access: 2026-10-05

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