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Overview
Qique is the human-eating bird of Mount Beihao in the Shanhaijing’s fourth eastern itinerary. It resembles a chicken and has a white head, mouse-like feet, and tiger claws. The combination of small-animal feet with large-predator claws is preserved as written rather than simplified into an ordinary raptor. Human predation is explicitly stated.
The same mountain hosts Xieju, a red-headed wolf-like human-eater, but the two creatures have separate bodies. Qique has the white head and tiger claws; Xieju has mouse-like eyes and a pig-like voice. The shared diet does not establish that they hunt together or transform into one another. Their paired appearance in a mountain inventory is useful for comparison while supplying no joint narrative. A historical plate must therefore be identified beyond its general predatory mood.
Origins & earliest records
China; Shanhaijing Eastern Mountains
Records & interpretation
Specific named primary-text transcription directly read; historical plate not assigned yet.
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Shanhaijing, Eastern Mountains
Fourth eastern itinerary; Mount Beihao
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Primary records and illustrations
Shanhaijing
Eastern Mountains. Fourth eastern itinerary; Mount Beihao
Named received-primary passage directly read: 其狀如雞而白首，鼠足而虎爪. Historical scan not yet matched.
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- Primary text transcriptionShanhaijing Eastern Mountains received primary textResearch access: 2026-10-05
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