Chapter 39: Celestials

As mentioned above, the celestial clan of Celestial Beings who live on the moon, Tetsuki Hime. So this chapter is dedicated to talking about his people and things, so that you can understand the allusions contained in it......

Kaguyahime's birth is extraordinary. When Sanuki made maro into the mountains to cut bamboo, he saw a bamboo pole shining, and he couldn't help but get closer to take a closer look, and found that there was a petite girl about three inches long in the bamboo tube. This petite girl who is less than three inches is Kaguya. Sakumaro took Kaguya Ji in his hand and took it home, and gave it to the old woman of the family to raise.

The extraordinary birth is destined for Kaguya's extraordinary life. And strange things are repeated, in just three months, she has become a twenty-eight beautiful girl, the flower and the moon look sinking fish and geese, everyone who sees it is ashamed of their filth and admiration, and its more miraculous ability makes the house full of light, and the darkness has nothing to escape (worthy of the name of the bright night).

Kaguya's fame spreads from one to ten, and from ten to hundred, and finally everyone in the world knows about it. Since then, many men have come to propose, and Kaguyahime's indifference and sorrow have also been born. Five of these suitors stood out: Prince Shizhu, Prince Chechi, Right Minister Abe Gojo, Dainayan Otomo Goyuki, and Nakagon Ishigami Maro.

These five people never stop when the thunderstorms are combined, whether it is cold or snowy, or hot summer and June. However, Kaguya Ji came up with five problems to make it difficult for them, and asked them to obtain five things: the stone bowl of Tianzhu Kingdom, the jade branch of Penglai Mountain, the fire rat Qiu of the Tang Kingdom, the colored jade on the head of the sea dragon, and the swallow's son Bei'an.

The reason why Kaguya makes things so difficult for them is, on the one hand, because she knows that she is a celestial on the moon and cannot be combined with mortals; The second is because she despises the earthly people from the bottom of her heart (not to mention as a mortal, and she is not a powerful master, no one will naturally be a little pretended, for the gods and celestials, the power and wealth of mortals are the most ridiculous things. Of course, at the end of the twentieth century AD, after the modern scientific and technological civilization of mankind flourished and occupied the absolute dominance of the main world of the earth, I don't know if the Protoss would still have this view, anyway, none of the Protoss who lived in the mortal world all the year round and often dealt with human beings still retained this idea, and those who had always counted on the mortal worldly incense to worship the Mao God Land Stone dared to be the only one.

Maybe she didn't feel it herself, but as a celestial, she did have this kind of thought. In her conversation with her adoptive father, she clearly pointed out, "How vulgar these people are!" And when the prince brought the jade branch, this emotion was even more obvious. She thought sullenly, "Am I going to lose to this prince?" (It is worth noting that the word "lose" is very interesting) She was silent again, holding her cheek with one hand, sighing repeatedly, and thinking hard about countermeasures.

And when Kaguya had nothing to do, the craftsman who made the jade branch for the prince came and asked Kaguya to pay, under the pretext that Kaguya was the prince's royal wife. However, Kaguya didn't take this seriously, but happily took out her wallet (it seems that where did she get the money?). Definitely greasy). At this point, the lie of the prince of the car holder was exposed, and naturally he could no longer stay shamelessly, so he had to leave in shame and escape into the mountains, with no trace (this person is too thin-skinned, if he changes to Tian Boguang and others, hum, he must have been cut by the celestial clan).

The next three people are very careful to take the three treasures that Kaguya said at the beginning. It's a pity that they all returned in vain, and even Ishigami Maro lost his life for Zibei'an. But instead of being moved, Kaguya was sarcastic. There is such a sentence in the song in which she replied to the master: Such a mediocre thing, why bother! Only about the matter of Ishigami Maro, she felt uneasy, and wrote a song of condolences: "There has been no news for many years, and I think Belle has not succeeded." Unexpectedly, when Shi Shang heard it, he was killed!

All of the above shows Kaguya's indifference. In fact, she unconsciously disguised her indifference and contempt for the worldly people in the name of God-man, although this had a certain objectivity in fact.

Kaguya's sorrow mainly comes from her attachment to her homeland and guilt towards her adoptive parents. Try to see "Kaguya-hime looked up at the beautiful moonlight in the sky and suddenly became sad for no reason" and "often took advantage of people not to see, so she went to see the moon again and secretly drank and wept" These all show her longing for her homeland. The words she said inadvertently revealed her thoughts even more directly: "But, can I not look at the moon?" With a faint word, the sadness has spread. The sigh of homesickness has always been deep, even for heaven and man.

The orthodox comments have always said that Kaguya has a pure filial piety to her adoptive parents. However, there are other theories, saying that her cordial attitude towards her adoptive parents is filial piety, rather than guilt. The old man took her home and took care of her sincerely for more than ten years. Kindness is greater than that of one's own parents.

Kaguya said, "I don't miss my biological parents in the moon world very much, but I feel more nostalgic for this place." The first half of this sentence can be said to be sincere, but the second half of the sentence is debatable. She said that she was more nostalgic for the earthly world. Later, the celestial people came down to pick up Kaguya Ji and returned to the Moon Palace, and the arrogance of his attitude was simply disgusting, which reflected the general mentality of the celestials.

If we see Kaguya as an outlier among the celestials, she can't completely break away from this mentality, and subconsciously she thinks that the underworld is filthy. Nostalgia for the heavenly realm and guilt for her adoptive parents put her in a dilemma. This contradiction is the central source of her sorrow.

And when she was dressed in the feather of heaven, all these sorrows vanished. A guy who is not ashamed of this commented - "I don't know, but at the same time, there is even greater sorrow." She loses her heart as a "person" and replaces it with a heart as a "god." "β€”β€”Even the evaluation of this is hehe, people are happy to return to their hometown, who is rare in your heart?

Imagine if you stretch out your hand to open your mouth from brocade clothes and jade food and clothing, and never get tired of eating, the dream paradise that you can't even do coarse tea and light rice - eat bran and vegetables and can't eat hungry, can you still be grateful? Still miss this situation? If there is such a guy, then it is a masochist.

Not to mention anything else, there is no flush toilet, no toilet paper, civilians use tiles to deal with it, even nobles and even emperors can only use bamboo boards to deal with this item, and if you change to a modern urbanite, you have to scold the street - not afraid of hemorrhoids?! Who would be unlucky about such a bad situation? This is obviously self-righteousness, and has never empathized at all, so he arbitrarily draws conclusions.

In the ancient world, the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty had a great business, and there was the luxury of wiping his ass with Shu brocade (a certain teaser in The Matrix 2 described French as wiping his ass with silk hehe, but it was still not wide enough), or rub it once and throw one, but that was also the treatment that was only available in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Even so, there was a eunuch at that time to see that the waste of Shu brocade was a pity, so he went to pick it all up and cleaned it himself, and finally sewed all the cleaned Shu brocade together to make a curtain, the emperor was very shocked when he saw it, and then ordered not to use Shu brocade and changed to specially made toilet paper, so this is the origin of toilet paper.

PS - Song Ma Ling's "Southern Tang Dynasty Book: The Biography of Futu": "The queen and the queen of Zhou put on a sangha hat, wore a robe, recited Buddhist scriptures, knelt and bowed, and it was a tumor. Cut the monk's toilet Jane, try it with cheeks, few thorns, and then add repair. That is to say, in order to reflect his devotion to Buddhism, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, together with the Great Zhou Dynasty, personally cut bamboo chips for monks and Buddhists to make toilet chips. In order to ensure the comfort of the toilet chips, Li Yu and his wife also rubbed the toilet chips on their faces to ensure that they were smooth and smooth!! The dignified monarch of a country is still a volunteer for a monk to do this, hehe......

I remember that in the movie "Party A and Party B" starring the bald Ge You, there is not a broad guy who has eaten enough of big fish, big meat, and luxury banquets, and his mind is like eating bran and eating coarse tea and light rice, changing the taste and stomach, and staying in the countryside for two weeks.

When he first arrived in the countryside, he vowed to experience poverty. As a result, because he couldn't stand the coarse tea and light rice, a bird faded out of his mouth, and he was too greedy and missed meat, so he killed and roasted all the chickens raised by the farmers and ate them, and when Ge You came to pick him up, he couldn't wait to go back to the city to eat the restaurant, and never mentioned any coarse tea and light rice again.