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One, the Snow Girl

1. Legendary monsters

The Snow Maiden is a youkai that appears in a variety of legends. "When the snow girl goes out, she returns home early" is an old saying that is widely spread among Japanese folklore. A snow girl (Japanese: ゆきおんな) who lives deep in the mountains. Snow Girl, also known as Snow Hime, is a traditional Japanese-style monster, known to women and children, living in the deep mountains, similar to people, with a stunningly beautiful appearance, often attracts men who enter the snow mountains to places where no one is, kisses him, and kisses them completely while kissing, and takes away their souls to eat,

The children of the Snow Maiden are called Snow Girls, and in Japan they are considered to be the monsters that bring the first snow of winter. Snow Maidens are cold by nature, and are subordinates of the mountain gods, who are in charge of the winter snow. Since Japan is a small island country, the heroism of the mainland country that is frozen for thousands of miles and snowdrifting for thousands of miles is actually something that the Japanese cannot appreciate or experience. The three emotions of fragility, femininity, and sadness make up the soul of the Snow Maiden, which is exactly how the ice and snow of nature react in the delicate character of the Japanese. The young Snow Maiden is harmless to humans, and the adult Snow Maiden will freeze the human male she loves forever and bring it back to the cave where she lives to lay it out. for their viewing.

2. The legend of the Snow Maiden

There are several versions of the legend of the Snow Maiden.

According to legend, the Snow Maiden was in the early Republic of Japan, and because the wisdom of the people was not yet opened, the people of the older generation especially believed in the legends of some gods and monsters. It is even believed that the calamities of nature are controlled by the gods and ghosts, so there is a talk of a snow girl in the snow. As long as someone gets lost in the harsh environment of the ice and snow, they will definitely encounter the Snow Girl who eats popularity for a living, and the unpredictable monster Snow Girl will deliberately play with the bad roots of men's fickleness and disloyalty, and she will sometimes deliberately leave a frightened human male to threaten him. In order to survive, she must keep her "promise", abide by the laws of the demon world, and not tell anyone about her existence and her encounter with her. Otherwise, the betrayed Snow Maiden will definitely go to claim the man's life to warn the monster law. However, men who want to survive will panic and ask for the Snow Maiden's trust, and promise to keep their promise when they return and not tell anyone about the Snow Maiden's actions. But she likes to test men's character, and she is a bad girl and a snow girl. Next, she will disguise herself as an ordinary and virtuous human woman, deliberately find the man who made a promise with her, win the man's favor, and further marry him, give birth to a child with her, and follow her for the rest of her life, monitoring whether the man can keep his promise and stay with her for a lifetime to old age. But that unforgettable thrilling encounter always haunted the man's confused and frightened heart, and finally until one day. The man made up his mind to tell the truth about his encounter with the Snow Girl to his closest wife, hoping that she could share his nightmares, but the man never expected that the person next to the pillow was the most feared nightmare in his midnight dreams, it turned out that he had been sleeping with the enemy for a long time, breaking the "promise", and the Snow Girl had to tearfully kill the man who had a child with him, and sadly took the child back to the ice and snow.

Legend has it that the Snow Maiden would ask travelers to take care of the child in her arms in the snowy wilderness.

There is also a legend that the Snow Maiden sometimes separates men and women who are in love. In one village, there is a pair of young people who are in love with each other. The man once met the Snow Maiden in the snowy mountains, and was afraid that he would be killed by the Snow Maiden, so he avoided looking at the Snow Maiden's face, and knelt down and begged the Snow Maiden to let him live at any cost. The Snow Maiden smiled and said to him for a long time: If only you didn't regret it. The man bowed and bowed to the Snow Girl, expressing his willingness. The Snow Maiden held the man's face with one hand, and the ice cube with the other hand and put it into the man's eyes. The man returned to the village safely, and the Snow Girl did not test him with the usual means. But the man no longer knows the woman he has always loved. No matter how much the woman calls again and again, the cold eyes are the only and eternal response of the man.

Legend has it that as long as you embrace the Snow Maiden with a sincere heart, you can melt the Snow Maiden. Where the Snow Maiden melts, she will be reborn as a human being.

Ancient Chinese culture did not have a real Snow Maiden, probably because the geographical area did not often encounter snow damage. According to the record of "Qing Jialu", the eighth day of February every year is the birthday of Emperor Zhang, a few days before and after, the local must encounter wind and rain, causing the temperature to drop, which is believed to be caused by the return of Emperor Zhang's daughter Fengshan Girl and Snow Mountain Girl. Therefore, there is a local proverb that "Emperor Zhang eats frozen dog meat". Another famous goddess of the snow-capped mountains, Parvati, known as the "daughter of the Himalayas", and her husband Lord Shiva live on the Girosa Mountain, and is a goddess of great power and beauty.

All kinds of legends are rich and interesting. Because the snow is white, the legendary image of the Snow Maiden is mostly dressed in white, or has snow-white skin.

Second, the nine-tailed sky fox

1. Strange beasts in East Asian myths and legends

The nine-tailed sky fox generally refers to the nine-tailed fox in East Asian myths and legends, which comes from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China. The nine-tailed fox, the Xuan fox, and the white fox first appeared in the totemic beliefs of primitive religions. The nine-tailed fox is actually a totem of the primitive tribe of Qingqiu, located in the east or south, and the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" says that it "can eat people", indicating that it has divinity in threatening the enemy and protecting the safety of its own tribe; It is also said that "the eater does not Gu" can eat its meat without being harmed by evil spirits, which is obviously a primitive witchcraft related to the belief in the totem of the nine-tailed fox, and it is believed that the nine-tailed fox has the magic power to ward off evil spirits. In classical legends, the nine-tailed fox is a four-legged monster, with fiery red fluff all over the body, good at change, bewitching, and sexually like to eat people, and often uses its baby crying sound to attract people to explore.

In ancient times, there was a myth that Dayu of the Xia tribe married a woman of the Tushan tribe, which involved a mysterious image, which was the nine-tailed white fox. According to the Eastern Han Dynasty Zhao Ye's "Wu Yue Chunqiu Yue Wang Wuyu Biography" and "Art and Literature Gathering" volume 99 cited in the "Lu's Spring and Autumn Period" inscriptions, Dayu came to Tushan according to the examination in Song County, Henan Province, met a nine-tailed white fox, and heard Tushan people singing, saying "Suisui white fox, Pang Pang nine-tailed", if you are here "start a family", will be prosperous, so Dayu married Tu Shan's girl, called Nujiao. Because the myth was recorded very late, it was obviously added to the ideological and cultural concepts of later generations, and if it was restored to its original appearance, it was Dayu who married the nine-tailed white fox as his wife in Tushan. The hidden cultural significance behind this myth of beast marriage is that the Tushan clan is a tribe with the nine-tailed fox as a totem, and the nine-tailed white fox is regarded by the Tushan clan as its ancestor. Because the nine-tailed fox has such a beautiful thing, the fox spirits of the future generations always like to proudly say that they are descendants of Tu Shan and show off the nobility of their bloodline. The nine-tailed fox is said to have nine lives.

In the Han Dynasty, the idea of talismans prevailed, so the nine-tailed fox, which was originally a totem god, was also talismanized and became a mysterious symbol of auspiciousness.

2, the demon fox said

In the history of Chinese fox culture, an unfortunate thing about the fox also happened in the Han Dynasty, that is, it was demonized, under the influence of the idea of "things are old and strange", the fox that can be seen everywhere is not as good as the dragon and phoenix unicorn, and it is difficult to maintain its sacred status. Although the fox god and the sky fox worship were popular in the Tang Dynasty, it was already a demon god, and since it was a demon god, it was not as serious as the god, and it was inevitable to behave nonsense, just like the monkey before the positive fruit. However, in the concept of the Tang Dynasty, the most powerful Sky Fox Nine-Tailed Sky Fox still maintains a decent demeanor. It's a pity that the glorious history of the nine-tailed fox is going to end after all, but because it has the largest magical power, it ends later than other foxes, and it is precisely because it has the greatest magical power, when it is transformed into a goblin, it will become the most demonic fox spirit.

The nine-tailed fox had been demonized in the early Northern Song Dynasty at the latest. Tian Guo's "Confucian Discussion" said that Chen Pengnian was a treacherous person during the Song Zhenzong period, and he was good at "charming" the emperor, so "the eyes of the people at the time were nine-tailed foxes", which shows that the nine-tailed fox is no longer a rui fox or a divine fox in people's minds, and has become a bad thing. And it was also during this period that a famous woman in ancient Chinese history was said to be a nine-tailed fox, and it was spread to Japan, which was Daji, the concubine of the Shang king. The Japanese volume of "Ben Dynasty Ji Wen Cui" contains an article written by Jiang Dafuqing, which says that "Yin Zhida is a nine-tailed fox". "The Legend of the Fox" records the events of the third year of Kanghe (1101) in Japan, which is equivalent to the period of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, which shows that there was already such a saying in China before. In fact, Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty has compared Daji and King Zhou You's concubine Bao Xi to fox demons in "Ancient Mound Fox", which "can lose people's homes and overthrow people's country", when the nine-tailed fox became a goblin, Daji, the princess who confused the king with her beauty, was said to be a nine-tailed fox spirit, which is really a logical thing.

But this legend is still passed down in the Snow Maiden and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox, and when the Nine Heavens Barrier of Shenzhou is restored and the Spirit Secret reappears in the world, it is when they get rid of this fate. (To be continued......)