About the Nocturnal Wanderer
Before opening the book, I set the supernatural tone that Xiao Wu likes and is good at, so I also checked some relevant information. One of the more well-known "monster" works in our country is "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the other is "Strange Tales from Liaozhai". In fact, each dynasty has its own characteristics of the gods and monsters of the novel, which is a major feature of feudal society, the imagination of supernatural and inexplicable forces. There are also many novelists who borrow needles to disadvantage the times.
To get back to the point, the one I read is called "Youyang Miscellaneous", which is a novel of the Tang Dynasty, but most of the marked dates are after the Middle Tang Dynasty. I secretly guessed that it had something to do with the fact that Taizong Shimin was more disgusted with witchcraft heresies in the early Tang Dynasty (Xiao Wu's writing in the wedge chapter was based on evidence, he was very resistant to these in his early years, but he still believed it in his later years). In short, some representative monsters and strange things are selected in this book, such as nocturnal wandering girls and puppets, and so on.
Why do you want to put the first one about the nocturnal wandering girl? Because this monster is very famous in Japan, it has appeared in many films, television works and novels, and it seems that it is relatively rare in China. It has become a testament to Japan's deep influence on Tang culture.
Here are some of the information you found online. It is recorded in "Youyang Miscellaneous":
Nocturnal wandering girl, one is called the emperor of heaven, the other is called fishing stars, flying at night and hidden like ghosts and gods, the clothes and hair are birds, and the hair is a woman. There is no child, he likes to take the son of man, there is ru on his chest, mortals should not expose children, children's clothes should not be exposed, and the hair falls into the clothes, as a bird. or with blood on their clothes, or by the words of the dead. Also, the ghost car bird, according to legend, this bird used to have ten songs, which could collect human souls, and one was devoured by dogs. The sky is cloudy in Qinzhong, and sometimes there is a sound, such as the sound of a power car, or it is said that a water chicken is passing over.
The nocturnal wandering girl is also called the Heavenly Emperor Girl, fishing for stars, flying at night and disappearing by day, just like a ghost, also known as a ghost bird. According to legend, this kind of bird is mostly seen in Jingzhou, and when it is covered with feathers, it is a flying bird; Take off your feathers and become a woman. The bird has one of the biggest characteristics, it likes to steal babies, and it has a ru on its chest, which can be fed. Why is this so? The Tang people all believe that this bird is ...... by a woman who died in childbirth" - it comes from too many networks and will not post it, and some enthusiasts can search for it themselves. When Xiao Wu wrote about the nocturnal wandering girl, she grasped the characteristics of this monster stealing children, and added some of her own imagination, such as directing people behind her back and so on.
The first time Xiao Wu knew about this kind of monster was in the Japanese movie "Millennial Love". That's right, it's the film that describes the Tale of Genji, and there is a song and dance in it, and the ghosts of many women haunt the night, and I personally feel that it should be a wandering girl. The second time I read it was in the book "The Summer of the Bird" in the novel "The Summer of the Bird", and I learned that their Bird was a nocturnal wandering girl.
In addition, there are various aliases such as "ghost car" and "maternity girl", and there are also sources that believe that the wandering girl has nine heads......
In my novel, the wandering girl is driven by the power of evil to steal sleeping babies in Chang'an at night and give them to her master...... Do you think I'm going to spoil it? Baa Ha Ha, things about the nocturnal wandering girl can be obtained from the currently updated novel, of course, the mastermind behind the scenes will also appear, but that's another secret~ The above is the first season of miscellaneous talks, and it will be updated one after another with the appearance of more monsters in the future, I hope you like it. Please also support this novel.