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During the Yuankang era of Emperor Hui of Jin, Huai Yao of Lou County in Wu Commandery suddenly heard the faint sound of dogs coming from beneath the ground in his house. At the spot where the sound arose, he found a tiny opening no larger than an earthworm’s hole. Yao probed it with a staff, pushing it several feet down, and felt something. He dug there and uncovered two puppies, one male and one female. Their eyes had not yet opened, but they were larger than ordinary puppies. He offered them food, and they ate. Everyone in the neighborhood came to see them. One of the elders said, “These are called ‘rhinoceros hounds.’ Whoever finds them will bring wealth and prosperity to his household. You ought to rear them.” Since their eyes were still unopened, Yao put them back in the hole and covered it with a grinding stone. The next morning, he lifted the stone to look. There were no openings on any side, yet the puppies had vanished without a trace. For many years afterward, Yao’s household experienced neither unusual misfortune nor unusual good fortune. Later, during the Taixing era, Zhang Mao, the governor of Wu Commandery, heard dogs beneath the bed in his private chamber. He searched but could find nothing. Before long, the ground split open, revealing two puppies. He took them out and tried to rear them, but both died. Afterward, Mao was killed by Shen Chong, a military leader from Wuxing. The Shizi says: “There are dogs beneath the earth, called ‘earth wolves’; there are also human beings, called ‘Unharmed.’” The Records of the Xia Tripods says: “A dog found while digging in the earth is called ‘Jia’; a piglet found while digging is called ‘Xie’; a human being found while digging is called ‘Ju.’ ‘Ju’ is the same as ‘Unharmed.’” Such creatures occur naturally; there is no need to regard them as supernatural marvels wrought by ghosts or spirits. Thus “Jia” and “earth wolf,” though different names, are in fact the same creature. The Huainan Biwan says: “The liver of a thousand-year-old sheep transforms into an ‘earth steward’; a toad that obtains wild rice will in time become a quail.” All these things come into being through the transformations of qi and the mutual responses it evokes.
