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Hyakki Night Walk is a yokai parade that appears on summer nights from Chinese and Chinese nocturnal ghosts to Japanese folklore, and it is also a series of yokai paintings by the famous yokai painter Toriyama Shiyan.

The Heian period in Japan was a dark and unclear era when humans and yokai coexisted, and where the yokai lived and where humans lived, in fact, overlapped spatially, except that humans were active during the day, and yokai appeared at night.

The theme park that is uninhabited during the day has become a ruin, but at night, the lights are on, and the monsters appear one after another, and the monsters haunt the night in the food street and the hot spring town, living a nightlife like a human being, which is so lively.

At that time, in Kyoto, when night came, the entire road was empty, and at this time, many strange-shaped yokai appeared, like the procession of a temple fair, with hideous faces, walking on the main road, known as "Hyakki Night Walk", and some of them were like broken teapots, pots and pans paraded through the streets at night, and it was said that those who witnessed it would suffer a curse and die for no reason.

Legend has it that on the night of Obon, a hundred candles are lit, and several people sit around and take turns telling ghost stories, and when they blow out one candle after telling the story, they will see the hundred ghosts walking at night.

Due to the prosperity of overseas trade, handicrafts brought from the mainland flooded people's lives, so people began to not know how to cherish things, and the older generation of people always maintained the concept of cherishing things because of the lack of materials, and believed that the phenomenon of Hyakki night walking was the arrival of Fu Fujin to make trouble, and it was not until the Muromachi period that the concept of Fu Fujin gradually took shape.

Fu Fushen is to use the yin and yang changes of the environment to make the utensils incarnate into ghosts in the natural world to cause chaos in the world. Although people were extremely frightened of Fu Fu Shen at first, it was not long before people regarded Fu Fu Shen as an after-dinner pastime, which greatly reduced the awe-inspiring mystery that they originally had.

In Japan, it is said that if an object is used 99 times by its owner, it will become a spirit, and if it is abandoned, it will cause resentment. This kind of monster turned into a spirit is generally called Fu Fushen.

In order to ward off evil spirits, it is therefore on the day before the beginning of spring every year. This day is called "Sebuen". Objects that have not been discarded for many years must be thrown outside the house and burned with fire to prevent monsters from causing trouble. That's why there is a habit of cleaning that has been handed down, and this ritual is "removing the old and making the new". In temples and in every home, an activity called "bean scattering to ward off demons" is held.

Nowadays, when bean throwing is held, people rush to pick up the beans because they believe that eating as many beans as their age will ensure that they will be safe and disease-free for the year.

In every family, there is no special rule for those who scatter beans, and the father often puts on a ghost mask to play the role of a ghost, and the children throw beans at the "ghost", and at this time people shout in unison, "The ghost goes out, the blessing comes in!" "It was a very lively scene.

Although the temperature outside is still very cold at this time, people can still feel the atmosphere of spring coming from this enthusiastic shout.

The following is the spectrum of 100 ghosts: (1 to 10)

01 Wood Charm

Wood charm, also known as tree charm, refers to a tree that has a soul to live. It looks like a normal tree, but it is said that if you try to knock it down or injure it, it will cause great disaster for that person and the entire village.

02 Tengu

Tengu is one of the most well-known yokai in Japan. It is said that the tengu would abduct people who were lost in the forest, so the ancients called the abducted children "jinhi", as the name suggests, they were hidden by the gods. The legend of the Tengu was later incorporated into the religion of the mountain religion (Tendai and Shingon Esoteric Buddhism), and the Kamakura period "Kojibo Picture Scroll" depicts the battle between the Tengu and the monks of the Tendai sect, resulting in a defeat, and the action is quite vivid, which is quite interesting. It is said that in this story, the Tengu army from China and China came to ask for help from the Japanese Tengu, but the Japanese Tengu put on an arrogant attitude, which is called "self-slowness" and "high nose" in Japanese. Therefore, in ancient times, the tengu with the main image of "eagle" was transformed into "high-nosed tengu" in the late Middle Ages, and it was said that those mountain monks who were not in the perfect condition for cultivation and had an arrogant attitude would become tengu after death.

03 The valley sounds

The refraction of sound due to the topography of the mountains produces a huge reverberation, which is the origin of the "Valley Ring" youkai. Legend has it that in the shade of the mountain, there is the mountain god Yomiko, an animal like the Yomiko Bird that makes strange noises. There are also theories that "mountain man", "tengu", and "heavenly demon" make sounds, but they have one thing in common, that is, the sound of the valley is something that only happened after the appearance of the mountain god.

04 Mountain Boy

Mountain boys, as the name suggests, are mountain demons, haunted by deep mountains and old forests, and are very frequently concentrated in the area of Kyushu Island (not only on the border of Kyushu Island, but also in autumn and winter in other places). Because of their many connections with kappa, there are also some local sayings that kappa are kappa, and it is generally believed that kappa become a kappa when they enter the mountains in autumn. Legend has it that after Kappa entered the mountain, not only did the name change, but also the form and nature of the body changed a lot, so the Sappa and Kappa can be considered two completely different monsters.

05 Inujin Bai'er

The dog god itself refers to the ghost of the dog, and there are many theories about the origin of this "dog god". Legend has it that if you put delicious food in front of a dog that has been tied up in advance, but you don't untie the rope and give it to eat, the more desperately it struggles to eat the food, the more concentrated the desire for food will become, and then suddenly cut off the dog's head and throw it far away; Or sacrifice the dog's head first, and then throw it on a rock in the sea or other distant places, and the dog's dead soul will haunt it, and it can be used as a dog god, and Bai'er is a youkai that serves the dog god and looks like a child, and it is said that it is the soul of those children who are bitten to death by dogs.

06 dirt taste

In the middle of the night, when everyone is sleeping and there is silence, the youkai who sneaks into the bathroom from nowhere specifically licks the dirt of people after bathing, and the bathroom that is licked by it will not be cleaner, but dirtier.

07 Hashihime

Seen in "Meiji Demon Chronicle", it is formed by the resentment of some infatuated women, who are infatuated with others and can't stay with their beloved, so they jump from the bridge into the water to commit suicide, if a man crosses the bridge at night, it will appear, and lead it to the water to drown, if there is a woman crossing the bridge, it will be forcibly pulled into the water, it is said that in Japan women can not easily commit suicide, can only commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river, so this kind of monster is called a more pitiful monster. In addition to referring specifically to the goddess of the bridge, the Japanese word "Hashihime" is also used to refer to the prostitutes who stood by the bridge during the Edo period and the prostitutes in the "tea houses" located near the bridge.

08 Naruya

It is a small monster that parasitizes the home, and often makes the floor of the house make a "crunch" sound.

09 sea seat

If the fisherman who goes out to sea is suddenly trapped in the fog and can't tell the front and back, the left and right, sometimes a human figure will be reflected in the fog in front of him, and when he gets closer, he is a luthier with a pipa on his back, and when the fisherman reaches the shore safely under his guidance, the luthier is still standing on the sea and looking at each other from afar, which is a good kind of monster.

10 inverse bars

Since ancient times, the Japanese have believed that the reverse pillar will bring unlucky things such as fires and house sounds, so carpenters will be especially careful. If you ignore the reverse column for a long time, it will also change its appearance, such as showing a person's crying face and so on. (To be continued.) )