Auspicious God of Mount He Who Stirs the Breath of Heaven and Earth
Mount He, last peak of the third central sequence, bends five times, and nine streams rise on it, joining to flow north into the Yellow River; the text calls it 'the ninefold gathering-place of the River.' Its warden is the auspicious god Taifeng, human in form with a tiger's tail, who favors the sunny south side of Mount Fu and moves in an aura of light. The classic closes the notice with a single line of power: Taifeng stirs the qi of heaven and earth.
Guo Pu's commentary glosses that line with a story from the Lüshi Chunqiu. King Kongjia of the Xia was hunting on Mount Fu when a great wind rose and the day turned dark as night; the bewildered king blundered into a commoner's house. That storm, the commentators held, was Taifeng's doing — an auspicious god who could still black out the sky.
The sequence ends with his cult: Taifeng, Xunchi and Wuluo are served alike, a ram cleft in sacrifice and fine jade presented to the gods, three wardens sharing the hills along the south bank of the Yellow River.
