Once darkness comes, ghosts lurking in every corner will parade in groups on Kyoto Avenue. They don't hide anything, they party. At this time, anyone who accidentally takes a glance will be cursed in the end. Therefore, at that time, people who went out for a night outing carefully sewed a copy of "Respect for Saint Dalagni" in their skirts, hoping to use the blessing of Buddha to ward off evil spirits and avoid disaster.
These 100 troublemakers were originally just ghosts with vague faces in the legend. In the Muromachi era (1338- 1573), a shogunate painter, Tosa Shinshin, painted all this. His "A Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night" is not only the originator of monster painting, but also the ghosts in it are very unique. If you identify them carefully, you will find that these traveling ghosts are actually common objects in people's daily life, such as wooden fish, pipa, porcelain bowls, teapots, umbrellas and so on. With ears, eyes, nose and mouth, I became a half-thing, half-demon.
In the book "Poems to Solve Mysteries" in the Ming Dynasty, there appeared a square mirror monster named Jin Jingzhi, who talked freely with other artifacts. The mirror demon in the painting is a beauty, probably because the mirror is a woman's favorite thing, so the monster changes with the owner's image.
There is a saying in Japan that if an object is used by its owner for more than 99 times, it will become exquisite. Once damaged or discarded, it will become mourning because of resentment and bring harm to the world. Under Tosa Hiroshi's pen, monsters who have been treated unfairly gather to demonstrate.
China monsters were exported to Japan in large quantities during the Tang Dynasty in China, that is, Nara and Heian in Japan. At that time, a large number of envoys of the Tang Dynasty traveled across the sea to learn China culture with an open mind. Fusang followed suit to imitate the laws, political systems and capital construction of the Tang Dynasty, and even monsters began to "copy" China. Monsters from all walks of life in China traveled eastward with classic works such as Classic of Mountains and Seas, Search for Ji Shen and Huainanzi, and gradually penetrated into Japanese folk. It can be said that China played a vital role in the real formation of Japanese monster culture.
Although most Japanese monsters are exported from China, the concept of nocturnal ghosts on the Internet rose in those years when "Yin" was popular.
In fact, ghost nocturnal travel has been circulating among the people in China for a long time. Legend has it that the gate of hell opens on the first day of July, and all kinds of monsters who practice in hell can go home to visit their living relatives. On July 15th, the gate of hell is closed, and all kinds of monsters wandering in the world must return to hell before the gate of hell closes, otherwise they will disappear.