The worship of foxes is widespread across northern and northeastern regions of China.

Unlike the immortals in mainstream religions, fox fairies inhabit an ambiguous middle ground: as a belief in 'vulgar worship,' they wander between evil spirits and deities, official laws and folk order, and even the living and the dead. Unlike mainstream literary representations, fox women embody a complexity beyond the dichotomy of male fear and affection, moral norms, and transgression.

This piece explores the relationship between foxes and women, using the common Chinese folk performance of 'crying at graves' as a thread. It aims to capture the subtle feminist undertones beneath the complex identity shifts of foxes.