神秘的日本妖怪文化 传说中20个女鬼（Mysterious Japanese monster culture; 20 female ghosts in legend）.doc

神秘的日本妖怪文化 传说中20个女鬼（Mysterious Japanese monster culture; 20 female ghosts in legend） The birth of the monster begins with the awe of nature and animals, and all the forces that they cannot see, feel, and are unable to control are called monsters. Japan is a country of water culture, so many legends and water related, such as beans mother, is with a sieve in the water fishing to eat the goblin; bridge female is for himself the ghost; and active in the rivers of the kappa, the prototype is likely to be a ferocious freshwater crocodile. Similarly, Japan is a mountainous country, so there are many legends living in the mountains. For example, xuenv, is said to have been dumped to the snow woman, so often tempted the pedestrian, where the emotional people will freeze to death. Therefore, in the initial folk stories, the monsters were often scary and intimidating. It is said that because of too many ghosts, the ancient Japanese government set up a special Wizard - the Yin and Yang division. This duty honored in the Heian period reached the peak, because this time the Japanese domestic social unrest and unease, there is no solution to the ruling class, so the problems attributed to the. Therefore, people can not be careful in their lives, lest they offend some kind of taboos and lead to revenge. At that time, the division of yin and Yang was so powerful that the daily lives of the emperors and generals were interfered with by them. Today, the taboos in Japanese culture generally remain at that time. During the Edo period, the commercial handicraft industry flourished and people did not have to rely solely on God for food. Thus, the demons were transformed into spirits living in various items and props. The most famous is the ghost night Vol painting, depicts the pipa, umbrella, wooden fish, pot and so on each kind of old things because people will be discarded, angry into a variety of monsters out in the middle of the night tour of the scene. This is known as the originator