Chapter 256: Qingming
Just because the layout of the house is very strange, it is not a traditional foot basin and wind, but an authentic Chinese style.
"It's strange, this Xiufu, it stands to reason that as an authentic footbasin person, the layout of this house seems to be very similar to the pattern of a certain ancient dynasty in ancient China." Nanako spoke.
"Yes, this pattern belongs exclusively to the brilliant Great Qin, and there is a feng shui bureau in this house, and this kind of feng shui bureau does not belong to the foot basin." Lingyu looked inside the room in shock.
Many feng shui techniques in Huaxia have been lost, and the owner here actually knows, which means that it ......
"Hahaha, it's a guest from afar, come in!"
A hearty laugh in the room attracted the attention of several people.
Bai Ze pushed open the door at Lingyu's signal.
Inside the door sat an old man with a white beard, brushing his beard, looking at the table with a wreckage.
"Sit ......" Seeing Bai Ze coming in, the white-bearded old man stretched out his hand to signal a gesture to sit down.
The old man clapped his palms, and a graceful woman carried a tea tray for Bai Ze, Nanako, and even Lingyu and Sadako to pour a full cup of tea each.
After pouring the tea, the graceful disappeared in disillusionment.
This white-bearded old man can actually spell color magic.
"I know what you're here for...... I haven't been here for a long time, a thousand years? Well, more than two thousand years. The white-bearded old man sighed.
"Dare to ask sir, can you tell me your name?" Bai Ze already had a guess in his heart.
"They all call me Onmyoji Abe Qingming, oh, by the way, I also have a Chinese name, Xu Fu!" Xu Fu spoke.
"Abe Harumi, Xu Fu?" These are all well-known names.
"That's right...... I can only say that this Sadako did not come from me.
If you want to say who it is, you can go to the Izana brothers and sisters. Xu Fu touched his beard.
"Izanami, Izanagi ........." Bai Ze thought thoughtfully.
"Hou Shengzi, it's rare to meet hometown people, I can't help but want to say a few words, are you willing to shake?" Xu Fu fiddled with the chess pieces, raised his head and looked directly at Bai Ze.
"The younger generation naturally listens to it!" Bai Ze handed out the ecstasy wine as usual.
"Ah...... The taste of the Ecstasy Spring, brewing wine from the Ecstasy Spring, the offspring, you are good, very good. Xu Fu praised from the bottom of his heart, and after praising him, he drank the ecstasy wine.
"Huh?" Bai Ze's face was stunned, it was really ...... to be praised like this by an old man What a flattering one!
"Okay, okay, you like to listen to stories, the old man will come and talk a few words." Xu Fu looked at the sky.
In his early years, Xu Fu was lucky to be accepted as a closed disciple by Guiguzi.
After his success, he was said to be erudite and proficient in medicine, astronomy, and navigation, and was very famous among the people in the coastal area.
Xu Fu is a descendant of the Xu State, and there was a Xu State as early as the Yin Dynasty. After Xu's death, the descendants took the country as their clan.
Some researchers have shown that according to genealogical records, Xu Fu's origin is obvious.
But none of this was as good as I could have said.
Because of its prestige, it was known to the first emperor, so he let him enter the palace to accompany him.
Xu Fu thought at that time that it would be good to be like the senior brothers, assist Ming Jun, and leave a name in history.
But as time passed, Xu Fu slowly discovered that this monarch could make himself famous in history, and he was afraid that he would only be notoriety in the end.
Xu Fu knew that neither the emperor nor the people liked immortality, so he proposed to go to Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou for the first emperor to seek the elixir of immortality.
The First Emperor was naturally happy, after all, as a mortal, he could live for a long time, who wouldn't be happy?
Xu Fudong crossed the sea, arrived at the place, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It is said that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, when you arrive in this place, the mountains are high and the waters are long, presumably the emperor can't find it, as for the elixir of life, tsk tsk......"
Passing through the village, looking at the life of Ru Mao drinking blood here, Xu Fu was shocked, the people here are still wearing animal skins and cultivating.
Tools in hand, forehead...... It's still stone.
Xu Fu thought that he had found the value of life, so he began to teach these natives something.
The climate is warm, the scenery is beautiful, and the people are friendly.
I quickly learned some fur, and the things I taught included but were not limited to farming, tool making, education level, and so on.
In the eyes of the locals, Xu Fu has become a king.
Xu Fu thought that he would die at the age of 100, which was something that could not be escaped.
But I didn't expect that a hundred years, two hundred years, still never died, looking at the people who had caught up with normal life, Xu Fu felt helpless, by chance, he actually became a god in the eyes of the locals, and the sanctification of the flesh is nothing more than that!
In the days that followed, Xu Fu felt more and more that having an endless lifespan was not a good thing, and that life was too long and he would feel bored.
And when I'm bored, the idea of a game world is born.
And when he was playing in the world, he was under the pseudonym Harumi Abe.
The Heian period, in which Xu Fu lived under the alias Harumi, was an era of high-level civil rule and peace on the outside, but on the inside it was full of dirty aristocratic power struggles.
Due to the incompetence of the public rule at that time, the life of the people at the bottom was miserable.
In this terrible situation, the people at the bottom have the question of "what am I living for?"
And the high-level capable and the losers of power also have the question of "how can the political situation be saved?" ".
So, in this case, all kinds of negative emotions filled an era, and with it came the appearance of resentful spirits, and it was the work of the onmyoji to confront these resentful spirits that endangered humanity.
In addition, at that time, the foot basin Heiankyo suffered an unprecedented natural and man-made disaster: major earthquakes, fires, floods and other situations continued to emerge, so the people were panicked, and the rebellion of ghosts and gods was very loud, not only the words of the superiors, but also among the common people.
The nobles were convinced of the auspicious and evil of the position and date, and every time they went out, they had to pick the day and choose the direction, and whenever there was a disease or disaster, they would excuse ghosts and creatures to haunt them or encounter unclean things such as a hundred ghosts walking at night.
Therefore, the aristocracy of the time was familiar with the various taboos of Onmyodo, strictly followed its etiquette and decrees, and even had corresponding taboos on daily life such as getting up, washing, and eating.
(This custom continued until the Meiji Restoration), and the imperial court was also guided by this principle. Therefore, at that time, the Yin and Yang Dao not only had an exclusive department in the state--
Onmyoliao (Yinyangliao is one of the six liao under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Central Affairs, responsible for observing astronomy, meteorology, divination, making calendars, and expelling the yokai in the capital to balance the yin and yang in the world, etc., in addition to officials, there are also onmyoji, yin-yang doctors, yin-yang sheng, calendar doctors, calendar doctors, astronomical doctors, astronomical students, omitted doctors, shou chen ding and other staff).
At the same time, it also affected the implementation of national policies, and the Yin-Yang Tao of this period was no longer a simple belief based on taboos and spells, but had a certain political significance.
As a result, Onmyoji became active in the political arena as a "national civil servant" in the Heian period. What's more interesting is that because the Yin-Yang Dao was monopolized by the Heavenly Emperor, the "Folk Yin-Yang Dao" was also developed in the public house. Of course, these are all digressions, so I won't say them for the time being.
Onmyoji can manipulate Shikigami and can manipulate ghosts and gods who act according to the orders of the Onmyoji's master, and generally speaking, people other than Onmyoji cannot see Shikigami.
Of course, Haruaki Abe is not only good at manipulating Shikikami, but he has also been freely driving Shikikami, and he has been letting them do everything from housework to rituals.
It was learned from the website of Qingming Shrine that because his wife was afraid of the god, he usually sealed the god under the bridge.
Here, here is an interesting episode between Harumi and the Shikijin that took place: while Harumi was talking to the monk's room in the Kuan Dynasty, the young Gongda and the monk asked, "You manipulate Shikigami, but can you kill people in an instant?"
Qingming replied, "You can't kill people like that, but if you use a little force, you can." But because he didn't know how to resurrect him, he became a sinful worker. ”
At this time there was a frog in the courtyard, and when he saw it, he said, "Please show me and kill the frog." ”
Qingming said "Evil ......" and "If you try it yourself...... plucked a blade of grass, chanted a spell and threw it in the direction of the frog, and when the grass fell on the frog, it was flattened and festered to death.
Also, Qingming uses Shikijin when there is no one at home, and he can't see people's postures, but only shuttling up and down.
It is said that no one locks the door and the door closes.
Shirasawa remembers that this is a chapter that can be seen in "Tales of the Past and Present" and "The Tale of Uji", and it is a book that conveys the true face of Harumi that is unknown to others. About this legendary character, movies, TV series, comics, novels, and even fanfics on the Internet are involved.
In ancient times, the uncertainty of the natural environment threatened the daily life of human beings, and floods and droughts continued to occur, and many people died in disasters.
Because the situation is so miserable, people think that those who are unfortunate enough to die will linger in the world. The people revered them and gave them the names of "demons" and "evil spirits".
Knowledgeable about the mysteries, Onmyoji wield the power of darkness through secret rituals and secret methods to travel between the demon world and the real world, and in addition to performing prescribed tasks, they often had to fulfill the requirements of the emperor or nobles to remove spirits, divination, or perform spells.
Fujiwara Michicho, a well-known minister, attached great importance to Abe Harumi and repeatedly asked him to solve tricky incidents. Qingming not only has the ability to collect demons and subdue demons, but also understands the language of birds, and summons Shikami to do things for himself.
The beetle snake, the Vermilion Bird, the Liuhe, the Gou Chen, the Qinglong, the Tianyi, the Tianhou, the Taiyin, the Xuanwu, the White Tiger, the Taishang, the sky, the twelve divine generals representing the twelve directions in the Taiyi Liuren style plate are all the twelve divine generals summoned by Qingming, and they completely obey and protect their masters.
However, according to legend, Harumi's wife was afraid of the appearance of ghosts and gods, so Harumi hid these shikikami under a bridge near the house, and this small bridge is still located in a corner of Kyoto.
At that time, it was believed that it was a frontier separating the two worlds of human life and death, and that the spirits and ghosts who had lost their lives by the desires of this world would have to continue to wander the world if they could not reach the underworld...... There are many deeds about Qingming's demon eradication, and the most talked about is the story of the nine-tailed fox and the killing stone.
The nine-tailed fox is a monster that specializes in transforming into a peerless beauty to confuse the king.
She incarnated as Meixi when she was Xia Ji and Daji when she was the king of Shang.
When the Shang Dynasty fell, she was hunted down by Jiang Ziya, the prince of Qi, and was forced to come to Japan, where she called herself "Tamamomae", and won the favor and trust of Emperor Toba.
Later, the emperor fell ill and was bedridden, and the ministers began to suspect her, so they asked Abe Harumi to investigate her secretly, and finally exposed the true face of "Tamamae". The emperor, who had recovered from his body, was furious and ordered the hunt down to kill Tamamomae.
In the end, she was captured and killed by Harumi, but her ambition and obsession remained in Nasuno in the form of a "killing stone" (a stone that spews venom to attack birds and insects, making it impossible for animals to get close), and waits for revenge.
[However, during the time of Emperor Toba, where the Tamamo incident took place, Harumi had already passed away for many years, and the action before sealing Tamamo was probably done by his grandson Yasube himself]
"Watching them grow old, and I can't do anything about it, this kind of mood, hey......" Xu Fu looked at the sky.
Bai Ze sighed, it is really a thorough game in the world, and he has a wife and children.
Watching someone who has something to do with it leave, the mood is naturally self-evident.
"Okay, the old man will say here, as for where Izanami Izanagi is, you can find it yourself!"