Taowu
Chinese · numen · mythic prehistory · Recorded classification
His name became the title of a genre: Taowu is what the state of Chu called its official history, on the argument that a record of bad acts is the most useful kind, and later Chinese writers used the word for a chronicle of wickedness. A monster who lends his name to historiography is unusual and worth keeping on the record. Zhuanxu, from whom the Zuo Zhuan descends him, is already in the corpus.
Domains
- obstinacy
Relations
- companion: QiongqiOne of the four.Reference treatment of the Four Perils as a group. (secondary)
- companion: TaotieOne of the four.Reference treatment of the Four Perils as a group. (secondary)
Sources
- Taowu is one of the Four Perils, a reckless and stubborn creature with a human face, tiger's feet, boar's tusks and a tail eighteen feet long, descended in the Zuo Zhuan from Zhuanxu.: Reference treatments of the Four Perils. (secondary)