Original Text & Translation
山海經·南山經 · Shanhaijing · Classic of the Southern Mountains · Wikisource
又東三百里，曰青丘之山，其陽多玉，其陰多青雘。有獸焉，其狀如狐而九尾，其音如嬰兒，能食人；食者不蠱。
Three hundred li further east is Green Hill Mountain. Its sunny slopes are rich in jade, its shaded slopes in blue cinnabar. There is a beast here shaped like a fox but with nine tails. Its cry is like an infant's. It can eat people; whoever eats it will not fall prey to gu sorcery.
山海經·海外東經 · Shanhaijing · Classic of the Regions Beyond the Eastern Sea · Wikisource
青丘國在其北，其狐四足九尾。
The State of Qingqiu lies to its north. Its foxes have four legs and nine tails.
Some editions add 「其人食五穀，衣絲帛」 (its people eat the five grains and wear silk).
山海經·大荒東經 · Shanhaijing · Classic of the Great Wilds: East · Wikisource
有青丘之國，有狐，九尾。
There is the State of Qingqiu, where there are foxes with nine tails.
Comparing the Books
All three passages tie the fox to the name Qingqiu, but the mountain chapter treats it as a dangerous, edible beast with a medicinal use, while the two outer-region chapters simply list it as a feature of a distant country.
