This is a bamboo tube for storing water, with a fulcrum in the middle and water injected from one side. When the bamboo tube is filled with water, it will fall to one side, and the bamboo tube will become "empty" ... empty ... "The sound it makes when it touches the stone.
This thing is written in Japanese-Luwei し, pronounced ししおどし(shishiodoshi), and also translated into Chinese as "Jing Lu".
As the name suggests, at first, this device was put in the wild to threaten and scare away birds and animals.
Located in Kyoto? Xiantang is the birthplace of deer. Shixiantang was founded by Akiyama Ishikawa, the most famous Japanese poet in China.
Ishikawa Zhangshan fought side by side with Tokugawa Ieyasu when he was young, and later founded Shixiantang to live in seclusion in the mountains. He likes China's poems very much and has been studying China's poets, ancient poems and calligraphy all his life. He is called "Lee and Du" in Japan.
There are statues of thirty-six poets in China, each with a masterpiece, also called "? The reason for the fairy hall.
Because Shixiantang was built in the deep mountains, wild boar and deer frequently appeared at night, so he set up this set of equipment here just to scare away wild animals with this sound; Secondly, in this quiet mountain, the sound of bamboo knocking on stones can also bring some comfort to Zhang Shan Ishikawa.
Later, everyone realized a little Zen from this uproar, and many people began to follow suit. Unconsciously, the frightened deer spread all over Japan.
Nowadays, scaring deer is an indispensable image in Japanese courtyards. While enjoying the beautiful courtyard, you can also hear the sound of running water and regular deer hunting.
Although monotonous, it also adds a lot of flavor, and it can also make people who come here to practice calm down and put aside secular troubles.