Chapter 47: Momiji Hunting
2. Maple girl red leaf hunting
The maple leaves here are beautiful, how about the night brocade?
Frustrated, who has it, stop under the empty tree.
I can't stay in the shade, and the autumn leaves are drifting.
Enjoy cherry blossoms in spring and autumn maples. "Sakura Hunting" and "Momiji Hunting" are traditional Japanese outing programs. Japan is a long and narrow country, and the cherry blossoms bloom from south to north every spring. In autumn, the maple leaves are colored from north to south. If a person can follow the appreciation all the way down and be obsessed with it, it is called "hunting". Hunting, the meaning of safari. Some Chinese characters in Japanese are very expressive and ancient, and the word "hunting" expresses the feeling of "fast horses stepping on the clear autumn".
"Momiji Hunting" is an event to see the autumn leaves in the mountains and forests. From ancient times to the present, from the ministers and magnates to the industrial and commercial people, they have attached great importance to this activity. The cool breeze blows in the golden autumn, the layers of forests are dyed, the maple leaves are flying and fluttering all over the sky, people are intoxicated with the poetry of this "frost leaves red in February flowers", quietly look at the splendid mountain maple red, and admire the red glamour like blood and fat. Legend has it that the color of the autumn leaves is dyed red by the blood of the maple girl.
During the reign of Emperor Suzaku, there was a husband and wife in Oshu Aizu, the husband's name was Sasamaru, and the wife's name was Kikuyo. The two were old and childless, and often went to the temple to worship the gods and Buddhas for children, but to no avail. One day, their neighbor said, "Since it is useless to ask for all the gods and Buddhas, perhaps, we have to go to the left side of the door." You may wish to pray to the Demon King on the sixth day and try it. The couple hesitated again and again, and finally their desire for a son overwhelmed everything, so they prayed day and night.
The sixth day demon king is the "Heavenly King of His Transformation" on the sixth day of the highest desire realm. When Shakyamuni entered the Bodhi tree and realized the supreme path, the demon king sensed that Shakyamuni would leave the realm of desire and get out of his control. So he sent the three witches to lead the demon soldiers to disrupt the Buddha's path and was defeated by Shakya. The demon king is angry about this and often thinks about revenge.
It just so happened that Sasamaru and Kikuyo prayed for a son, and the demon king gave the two of them a dream at night, saying: "Because I see your sincerity, I give you a daughter, which can be named Wu Ye." You are good at health and maintenance, and women are far better than men! The husband and wife suddenly woke up from a dream, and Ju Shi felt pregnant. In July of the same year, she gave birth to a lovely daughter, named Wu Ye according to the dream.
The couple kept in mind what the demon king said, and took care of Wu Ye carefully and took care of him. Wu Ye gradually grew up, born beautiful like a flower, ice muscles like jade, and better at piano art and singing, which is really beautiful, attracting the admiration of men from the neighboring ten miles and eight towns. A local wealthy family even coveted Wu Ye, who was both beautiful in color and art, and he used his power to coerce the second elder to marry Wu Ye to him. Wu Ye was helpless, praying at night to the heavenly demons, and suddenly a loud noise descended from mid-air: "You are my daughter, and you will help you!" After finishing speaking, Wu Yeden fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up the next day, I already had a demon spell. She took a piece of maple leaves, performed the technique of "one life and two bodies", turned the maple leaf into her stand-in, and married into a wealthy family. And the real body escaped Aizu with the second elder Starry Night and went to Heiankyo.
After Wu Ye entered Beijing, he opened a hairpin shop with the two elders in Beijing Sitiao Avenue to make a living, and changed its name to "Red Leaves". In her spare time, she will also teach the neighboring ladies and piano artists to be red, and soon, the red leaves are famous all over Jingluo, and many sons and nobles have come to them, all wanting to kiss Fangze. In the end, the general of the Mutsu town, Gen Jingji, came out on top and included Momiji in the palace as a concubine.
After Momiji entered, he wanted to replace the position of the Tachibana Imperial Front, the wife of the Jingji, so he cast a spell to curse the Tachibana Imperial Front every night. Soon, Tachibana Gozen suddenly fell seriously ill and was bedridden, and the servants in the palace also rumored that ghosts often appeared in the middle of the night.
Jingji's son Genman Zhong was alert by nature and became suspicious, so he found the onmyoji He Mao Zhongyin. Zhongyin took out dozens of talismans and handed them to Man Zhong, saying: "I have a talisman, and the public can pass it on to everyone in the mansion to wear it, and it can ward off evil spirits." If there is a person who rejects this talisman, it is a demon. ”
Man Zhong then distributed the talisman to everyone in the mansion, but Momiji refused to accept it. Man Zhong then secretly discussed with Jingji: "Onmyoji Zhongyin has said so, only this woman refuses to accept it, and she should be a demon." The Father can kill him to avoid disaster. Otherwise, woe will be met! "Gen Jingji thought so deeply and decided to kill Momiji. Unexpectedly, on the bed that night, Jingji saw that Momiji was pitiful and pregnant, so he couldn't bear to do it, so he exiled Momiji and the second elder to Shinano Kunito Village. After the autumn leaves were expelled, Tachibana Gozen recovered. As a result, the people of Heiankyo believed that Momiji was indeed a witch. After Momiji was expelled from Kyoto, her parents died of illness on the way, leaving her alone and full of resentment. She met Yama in the Togakudo Road and entrusted her son to her. Yama took this son back to Sagami Province to raise him in Agami Province and named him Kintaro. Kintaro was born with great strength and enjoys sumo wrestling with mountain bears. At the age of five, he can swing a big axe, and the demons and ghosts in the mountain are all afraid of his divine power. Later, Minamoto Manchu's son, Minamoto Yorimitsu, passed through Mt. Ashigara, and when he saw that Kintaro was young and strong, he was very pityful, so he took it as a family member and returned to Kyoto together. Higashi Fang knew that Kintaro was his father's half-brother, so Minamoto Yorikotsu gave Kintaro the surname Sakata, named Jinshi, and later became one of the four kings of Yoriko. Besides, the red leaves live in seclusion, mourn their misfortunes, and vow to calm the world's sad wishes. On the one hand, she cast spells to cure the poor and sick in the village, and was deeply loved by the villagers, but on the other hand, she often lurked in the mountains, plundering the gold and silver goods of rich merchants with witchcraft, and then used this wealth to collect hundreds of neighboring bandits and thieves as wings, and gathered a crowd to cross the Shinano country. Shinano felt bitter and had to ask the imperial court to send troops to suppress it.
At that time, Emperor Lengquan was on the throne, and the edict ordered the "Yu Wu General" Ping Weimao to lead the troops to crusade. Wei Mao was instructed to lead his army to Togakushi and set up a formation in Shiota to make Saburo Kono the vanguard general. Momiji learned that the crusading army was coming, and he sacrificed his magic to launch a mountain flood and flood the array of the river. Kono was defeated by the demon arts, and was defeated and returned to the salt pans. Seeing the defeat of the vanguard, Vimao ordered the army Narita Saemon to march again. Momiji rained down from the sky with fire arrows, and Narita's entire army was annihilated, and only he was spared, and fled back to Shiota Honjin in embarrassment.
Seeing that the two battles were defeated, and his own flesh and blood were really difficult to defeat the demon law, Wei Mao gritted his teeth and hated it, so he vowed to fast for 17 days, during which he prayed to the god Hachiman every day. On the night of the seventeenth day, Wei Mao saw a white fox in a dream with a sword in front of his couch and said, "I am the envoy of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman!" The red girl is really the enemy of the Buddha and disturbs the world. The Bodhisattva saw the sincerity of the public, and gave the sword to the public, hoping that the prince would do his duty and punish the red girl to become the emperor! Wei Mao woke up and saw that there was indeed a sword in front of the bed, and hurriedly took the sword to the north to thank him. Wei Mao got the Excalibur and disguised himself as a Yunshui monk to sneak into the house. Momiji had foreseen that Wei Mao was coming in disguise, and ordered his subordinates to set up a banquet and prepare to capture and kill Wei Mao during the banquet. During the banquet, the red leaves performed a charm to persuade Wei Mao to drink, Wei Mao was confused by the charm of the red leaves, and was about to drink, when suddenly the divine voice entered his ears and said: "Wine is poisonous, don't drink it!" "Wei Mao is a spirit, and he is awake when he arrives. So he remained silent and pretended to raise a glass to invite the red leaves to drink. The moment Momiji raised his head and swallowed the wine, Wei Mao pulled out his divine sword and slashed it out with a wave of his hand. Momiji let out a terrible cry, and his head flew out of the air, falling to the ground after seven spins in the air. Momiji is dead, and the thieves and thieves are just a rabble, and they have nothing to escape, and they are all caught by the crusading army. Vimao ordered them all to be beheaded. Ping Weimao returned to the dynasty victoriously, in order to remember this matter, he composed a special song and said: "Shinano's north mountain is windy, and the bewitching red leaves are dancing by the lan." ”
After Momiji died, because she was the daughter of the Heavenly Demon, her soul was not dispersed, and she lurked in the Six Realms. Hundreds of years later, the spirit of Momiji was reincarnated in the Owari Oda family and reappeared in the world as a man, and his new name was Oda Nobunaga! Oda Nobunaga inherited the long-cherished wish of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven to be an enemy of the Buddha, hated the Buddhas deeply, and attacked the sacred mountain of Hiei and burned more than 4,000 monks and believers. Takeda Shingen called it "the manifestation of the heavenly demons." "Of course, that's all for later.
Later generations sympathized with the beautiful woman of the Momiji generation, but ended up in a different place, so they set up a "Momiji Hunting" event to commemorate her. Every autumn, people gaze at the maple leaves all over the ground, as if they see the red leaves that have been lonely for thousands of years dressed in long clothes, silently wandering in the autumn wind, their eyes mournful and ethereal. The crimson maple leaves are extremely beautiful, with an elegant and depressive sadness, as brilliant as the afterglow of the sunset. Then, when autumn went to winter, he turned away lonely and walked away......
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