ARCHIVE Nº 006·Curated wing · 西山经·WESTERN RANGE
Textual source · 《山海经·西山经》
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《山海经·西山经》：「西南四百里，曰昆仑之丘，是实惟帝之下都，神陆吾司之。其神状虎身而九尾，人面而虎爪；是神也，司天之九部及帝之囿时。」
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Nine-tailed and tiger-bodied, it governs the nine divisions of heaven. Lu Wu guards the boundary — what belongs to the sky, what to the earth; where one may pass, where one should stop.
You guard boundaries, and you guard order. A sliver of light will stay lit for you at the gates of Kunlun.
Knowing where to stop is a strength, no less than knowing how to go on.
Textual source · 《山海經·西山經》
Kunlun is called the emperor's lower capital, administered by the deity Lu Wu. The passage gives Lu Wu a tiger's body, nine tails, a human face, and tiger claws, then describes responsibilities for the divisions of heaven and the imperial garden's seasons. Nine tails, rather than nine heads, are the identifying detail here.
A later sentence in the same passage describes Tu Lou, a four-horned, sheep-like man-eater. That description belongs to a different creature. An earlier SYNREX excerpt mistakenly included Tu Lou and conflated Lu Wu with Kaiming; it has been corrected. The site's guardian-of-boundaries theme is an interpretation of Lu Wu's responsibilities, not an additional classical quotation.