The self of the heavens has billions of clones

Chapter 180

Seeing that the time had come, Raikou and his men sneaked into Shuten-douji's room.Shuten-douji, who turned into a boy at the banquet, showed his original shape at this time: a body more than 3 meters long, fiery red hair, with two horns on his head, and fell asleep.

However, it is indeed a capable person among ghosts. It suddenly woke up the moment Raikou drew his sword, but was unable to move under the power of the divine wine.

"I am Raimitsu, take your life!" As he shouted, Shuten-douji's head was severed by the sword.But the ghost's head is still not dead, flying in the air and attacking Laiguang.

Lai Guang used the star pocket to escape the disaster.The ghosts whose leader was killed wanted to attack Yorimitsu and his party, but their bodies were restrained by the sacred wine and could not move, and they were finally eliminated one by one.

After beautifully killing all the ghosts, Raimiko and the others rescued the plundered girl and received a generous reward from the Emperor.This is the very famous legend of "Shuten Doji's retreat" among Japanese folks.

In Chinese, the Chinese-style tengu is pronounced "てんぐ", while the Japanese-style is pronounced "てんぐ".Japanese Chinese characters are also called "Wangufang".Tengu is one of the most well-known yokai in Japan. It is written in "Shan Hai Jing" that tengu is a fox-like animal, and in Japan it is called ten fox (a fox that lives in the sky).

Tengu has a bright red face, a tall nose, a bit like a gibbon, holding a round fan, and looks very tall.Living in the deep mountains, with supernatural powers and superpowers, it has the power to make human beings feel horrible.

There is a pair of wings on the back, which can fly freely in the sky and has the power to tear humans into pieces. The statue of Tengu is still enshrined in Kurama Temple.

It is said that the tengu will abduct people who are lost in the forest, so the ancients called the abducted children "Shenyin", which means they are hidden by the gods.

The legend of Tengu was later integrated into the religions of mountain beliefs (Tentai and Shingon Esoteric Buddhism). The Kamakura Period "Shimaibo Picture Scroll" depicts the scene of Tengu fighting with monks of Tendai sect and retreating in the end. The movements are lifelike. Health, quite interesting.

It is said that in this story, the Tengu Legion from China came to ask for help from the Tengu in Japan, but the Tengu in Japan put on an arrogant attitude, which is the so-called "self-arrogance" and "high nose" in Japanese.

Therefore, in ancient times, the main image of the "eagle" was the tengu, but in the late Middle Ages it was transformed into the "nose-high tengu". It was also said that those mountain monks who had not reached the level of practice and had an arrogant attitude would turn into tengu after death.

In later generations, there was a saying that the appearance of the Tengu would lead to chaos in the world.It is still a mystery whether the mountain monk who caused various mysterious phenomena is related to the legend of the tengu.

In Chinese legends, solar and lunar eclipses are said to be "Tengu eating the moon", and panicked people will also beat gongs, drums and set off firecrackers to drive away Tengu.

China's Tiangou first came from "Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing". The original text is: Three hundred miles west and west, called Yinshan.The water of the turbid bath flows out, and flows south to Fanze.Among them, there is a beast called Tiangou, whose shape is like a raccoon with a white head, and its sound is like a durian, which can ward off evil.This raccoon-like animal with a white head is likely to be some kind of ancient mammal that actually existed.

But Japan's Tengu feels like it's completely imaginary.Regarding the origin of the Japanese Tengu, there is a theory that the legend of the Tengu was introduced to Japan along with Chinese businessmen in the Edo period, and was distorted to a certain extent in the spread of Japanese people.Another theory holds that the tengu is the ancient Japanese's fear and awe of shooting stars, and it applies the name of the tengu in Chinese mythology.

According to the Nihon Shoki, during the reign of Emperor Kinmei, there was a shooting star with a huge thunder that streaked across the sky.Seng Min said to the emperor: That's not a shooting star, it's a tengu (meteor ni あらず, これtengu (あまつきつね) nari).

Although the image of tengu at this time was not clearly pointed out, according to the pronunciation of tengu mentioned by Seng Min, it should be considered that when the word tengu first entered Japanese, it was not a human image.However, due to the same pronunciation, in some places the Chinese characters of the word "てんこう" are trained as "天公".

In this way, it seems to provide evidence for the human image of the Tengu, but in fact, the chronological order should be considered; in any case, the "Tengu" at the time of the emperor was always earlier than the "Tiangong".

The third theory is that tengu is a sound change of a medicinal material called "Amacao" that was introduced to Japan from ancient China. This plant called "Amazona" is pronounced as てんぐさ in Japanese, which is different from "Amazona" in Japanese place names and personal names. The pronunciation of あまぐさ, because the plant of the tengu picture spread quickly after it was introduced to Japan, the name of てんぐさ is also called like this. It is passed down and becomes てんぐ, which is transformed into Japanese Chinese characters. The word "Tengu", as for how "Amakusa てんぐ" became a monster "Tengu てんぐ", there are different opinions, and it is really impossible to verify.

There is also a saying, starting from its red face and high nose, some people think that its origin should be Saruta Hiko.It is also the God of Reception who appeared in the section of The Advent of the Son of Heaven in the Book of Ancient Matters. It is described in the book that he has a strange appearance and a complexion like red physalis.Because of his meritorious service, he was named one of the ancestor gods of Taoism.

And his name was also given to Tianyu to be a slave, so that he changed his name to Ape Girl Jun as the ancestor of the Monobe clan.In fact, this Saruta Hikomi should be regarded as a traitor to the God of Kunitsu.

In addition, there are rumors that the origin is from the appearance of the southern barbarians, a mountain monster that changed into Shugendao, or a mountain guardian god, and a monk who broke the precepts. Anyway, it is not a good thing.

There is even the guy who appeared in the Heike Monogatari and haunted Emperor Chongde.The most outrageous statement is that its image comes from the image of an angel from the West.

In fact, the image of the Japanese tengu is constantly evolving.Japan is an island country that used to be almost completely isolated from the outside world.

Different from the prosperity of ancient China, envoys and businessmen from all over the world frequently travel to and from the metropolises of China. People are accustomed to the blond barbarians. The Japanese have a fear of those early Western explorers and missionaries. The differences made it difficult for them to accept that they associated the image of foreigners with big noses, red cheeks, tall stature, blond hair, and blue eyes with the legendary tengu, and it is very possible that they established the current appearance of Japanese tengu.

For the Japanese, the existence of Tengu is a very scary thing.The biggest feature of the tengu is a scarlet face and a long big nose. It also has a pair of wings. With the wings, the tengu can fly freely in the air, which seems to be far from the image of the tengu in Chinese legends.

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