Qiongqi is a beast of the Shanhaijing, told to take the form of a winged tiger with fur like a hedgehog’s. It devours people, and in disputes is described as eating the righteous and siding with the wicked.
Qiongqi is one of the Four Perils of Chinese myth, read as the personification of evil itself. Its habit of inverting justice makes it not a mere predator but the shape of a malice that actively destroys the moral order.