What are the stories of Japanese demons (or demons and masks)?
Drunk children are one of several famous monsters active in peacetime. After the death of the nine-tailed fox and Akihito, the big dog was considered as the three monsters in Japan and was once the king of ghosts.
As a powerful monster, Jiutun boy has a very strong body, six meters long and hunchbacked. He likes to drink blood, with a red face, a few messy short hairs on his bald head, five horns on his head, 15 eyes and a wild animal skin tied around his waist. Of course, this is its form as an evil ghost. When it harms the world, it often becomes a handsome teenager.
2. Big dog
The big dog has a tall red nose and face, holds a round fan or a treasure mallet, is tall, wears a monk's suit or the armor of a former military commander, and has wings behind it.
Living in the mountains at ordinary times, he has unimaginable Machamp and magical power, a mountain city hanging around his waist, wearing traditional Japanese high-legged clogs, hiding himself at any time with hemp fiber on his back, and an arrogant attitude.
3. Snow Girl
The origin of Snow Girl is quite ancient, which is described in the Legend of the Nations in the late Muromachi era. Snow girl will appear as a beautiful woman on a snowy night.
If she meets a man she likes, she will turn him into a popsicle and bring him back to the mountains (because it is said that she was abandoned by her lover in the snow-capped mountains). Her skin is very pale, even transparent enough to blend in with the surrounding snow. And when the snow girl is threatened, she will become a cloud or snow.
Snow girl's child is called Xue Tong. In Japan, Xue Tong is regarded as the monster that brought the first snow in winter.
4. He Tong
River boy is a very famous ghost in China and Japan. Where there is a river pond, there is a legend of a river boy. The river boy looks like a child, with a beak, frog limbs, monkey body and turtle shell, and his body is covered with hard scales.
There is a dish on the river boy's head. As long as the water inside does not dry up, the river children will be strong, and human beings are far from rivals. Therefore, when dealing with the river boy, people should first trick him into bending down and wait for the water in the bowl on his head to run out and be at the mercy of others.
5. Tamamo no Mae
As one of the three Japanese monsters, Tamamo no Mae is said to be a nine-tailed fox, a monster who turned into a peerless beauty in order to confuse the king.
This Tamamo no Mae is resplendent and magnificent, with Kyubi no Youko. Later, under the command of the Emperor of Heaven, it was captured by Akie Abe and was named the sacred stone of Nasuno. In the Muromachi era, it was destroyed by monk Xuanweng, and the fragments were scattered all over the country.
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Japanese mask culture:
The history of Japanese masks originated from shell masks around 3000 BC, and then earth masks appeared. In ancient times, masks were objects made by human beings with the most primitive desires-prolonging life, eliminating disasters, exorcising demons and making money.
The soil surface in the photo is considered to be made in the age of rope, and its shape is called "curved nose soil surface".
There are holes on both sides of the face to wear ropes, and traces of cinnabar can be seen on some faces. It can be inferred that special masks with red faces were used in commemoration or belief activities.
In the hundreds of years after the rope era, although mask making may continue, it has not been found in unearthed cultural relics so far.
Later, they entered the Byrd, Nara and Heian periods, and many masks used for Buddhist ceremonies and artistic performances came from Chinese mainland and the Korean Peninsula. These are geisha faces, dancer faces and street faces. Yue Ji is a kind of song and dance that originated in the south of China in the 3rd century. It is said that Baekje naturalized people were introduced to Japan during the Asuka period.
This kind of song and dance is a performance of worshipping Buddha. The performer wears a big mask behind his head and walks with the music while performing sketches. After arriving at the destination temple, they will perform art there. People of all roles will appear in this ranks. Standing in the front is a mask with a high nose, followed by lions, lions, martial arts, martial women and other roles.
Ci music was grandly staged in the ceremonies of temples all over the world, and gradually declined after the Heian period. In the 8th century, influenced by China, songs and dances from all over Asia began to spread to Japan, and these songs and dances were merged and adapted into elegant music conforming to Japanese customs, which was established as the center of the court. From the 9th century to the10th century, it replaced geisha as the main body of Japanese music and dance.
The accompaniment music of dance in this period is called dance music, and the mask used in dance is called dance face. The mask known as the King of Spirits is a masterpiece of dance music, especially the more gorgeous mask of riding a dragon on the head of the King of Spirits. Its connection with dragons is also related to the belief of ordinary people praying for rain in later generations.