The Legend of the Ten Violences of Xishan

There are ten elves in the Xishan Mountains of Beijing. After thousands of years of cultivation, they have become human and reincarnated into important figures in the ten dynasties of the Qing Dynasty: the badger is Hong Chengchou; the bear is Dorgon; the owl is Wu Sangui; the pig is Nian Gengyao; the donkey is Hailancha; the wolf is Heshen; the fox is the Empress Dowager Cixi; the python is Zeng Guofan; the monkey is Zhang Zhidong; the toad is Yuan Shikai. The legend incorporates traditional Chinese superstitious ideas such as "goblin reincarnation" and "karma", providing a fatalistic and easy-to-understand explanation for the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty. It satisfies the public's curiosity about "Why are these big people like this?", As if everything is predestined.