Qiao Ji's voice returned to its original timbre, and her appearance was no longer that cruel and cruel look.
Seeing that her kind side appeared, I started to work on her and said: "Qiao Ji, you were just an ordinary woman during your lifetime, with a woman's shortcomings and personality. What woman doesn't want to be loved by the man she likes? What a pity. , you don’t know how to restrain yourself, I don’t blame you, I can only say that the Japanese people at that time were too male-oriented. I tell you now, only when you are alive can you have a future. If you have an afterlife, I hope you can do it for yourself And live.”
Qiao Ji said: "Don't you Chinese have this problem? Isn't dignity important?"
"It's not that dignity is unimportant, it's just that you are wrong. Only when people are alive can they have a future. Don't be tempted to commit suicide just because of a little blow or setback. If you have the courage to die, why don't you have the courage to live and face the future!"
After my enlightenment, Qiao Ji already understood. She nodded, and the white light turned into dots of light and dissipated. I understood that the inner knot of this powerful monster had been completely opened by me, and he had fled away.
To be honest, I have no idea whether I can do the job of Tongqiao Princess. They say they are gods, but in fact they are just undead. It's just that living in one place for a long time has the power to make people spread rumors. The more rumors are spread, the more people will believe it.
Now, I defeated Qiao Ji and left the barrier calmly. As expected, I passed the third level just like that. "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Planning and Attack Chapter": "The first step is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and the third is to attack the city; the method of attacking the city is the last resort." As long as violence can be avoided, there is no need to use violence. Although, to fight against the enemy, Such monsters will inevitably be dealt with violently. However, today, I was able to resolve the duel with my eloquent words. I have to say that this is the most successful time I have ever exorcised demons.
In fact, the legend of Hashihime goes far beyond that. Because she has been entrenched in the Ujigawa area for too long, people have spread her story. The most amazing one is Uji Hashihime.
Since ancient times, the Japanese have believed that every bridge is protected by a goddess. Among the many bridge-related legends, Uji Hashihime is the most famous. Whenever Hashihime is mentioned, it usually refers to the goddess Ujibashi. Uji Bridge was built in 646 and is the oldest existing bridge in Japan. The wooden bridge in the Uji River area is the place guarded by the monster Hashihime. Why is Uji Bridge the most famous? Because it is notorious. Whenever a playboy passes by, Qiao Ji will seduce him with her beauty. Any man who is deceived and wants to have sex with her will be taken into the river and drowned without exception.
According to the records of "Meiji Yoki", a Japanese fairy tale, it is said that in the ancient age of the gods, Uji Hashihime and the Rikyu Hachiman God were lovers, and the Hachiman God came to see them every night along the Yodo River, Seta River, and Uji River. Hashihime. Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine is a shrine built in the early Heian period on the site of Emperor Saga's Rikyu Palace, located in Oyamazaki, Kyoto Prefecture. In the beginning, both of them were just people close to the gods. They had a crush on each other very early and thought about Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai who would be together forever to make Japan a success.
It is also because the marriage form in Japan at that time was a visit-to-wife marriage. The man usually went to the woman's house to spend the night after the sun went down, and left at ten o'clock the next day, so people thought that the marriage form of the gods was probably the same. In fact, it is just a special form of marriage between men and women in the local area. To put it simply, it means leaving early and returning late. However, Uji Hashihime and Rikyu Hachimangami were transformed into supernatural beings by people's legends, so it eventually evolved into the fact that at dawn every day, the waves of the Uji River are the most turbulent, so even if they can't see the figure, people know that Hachimangami is going back. That is to say, when the river god leaves and returns, it will cause a huge surge of tide.
However, even the god Hachiman, who is close to a god, does not come back to Uji River every night to protect his wife. Some local nobles or rich people can also visit the east and west after sunset. There are inevitably some unscrupulous people among them. But Hashihime could only sit by the bridge, eagerly awaiting the arrival of Hachiman God every night, because she had regarded Hachiman God as everything to her.
The beautiful Hashihime, with her figure and singing voice waiting for her husband after sunset, has become a popular local gossip and has gradually evolved into many legends. Some people say that Qiao Ji was too infatuated to wait for her husband to come back and drowned, and then turned into a ghost; some people said that because Qiao Ji missed her husband so much, she moved the true god in Hanoi to give her power; others said, Qiao Ji's husband changed his heart, and Qiao Ji became hateful because of love, and became a big monster that people talked about.
The posture of the graceful goddess with her neck raised and looking into the distance on the river stimulated the imagination of many ancient singers and left many famous Japanese songs.
Murasaki Shikibu also knew the legend of Uji Hashihime, and wrote the tragic love story of three women including Hashihime and Ukifune in the Uji Ten Posts in "The Tale of Genji". In the early and middle Heian period, nobles often expressed their worries and longings about love. This is very similar to people in my country's feudal period. It can be said that when people are troubled and helpless, they can only think wildly. Japanese nobles and scholars also placed their trust in Waka or poetry, sublimating it into a kind of beauty. Therefore, Hashihime during this period was always a sad and beautiful goddess who waited wholeheartedly for her lover to come. Hashihime has become a symbol of Japanese culture.
In the late Heian period, Hashihime was no longer a goddess, but a common woman.
It is said that in ancient times, there was a woman guarding the bridge beside Uji Bridge, and people called her Hashihime. Qiao Ji also has a husband. When she was pregnant, she suffered from severe morning sickness and would vomit whatever she ate. The husband couldn't stand it and said to Qiao Ji: What do you want to eat? Tell me. I'll definitely try to find it.
Hashihime thought for a while and said: I have eaten Ise wakame before, and I thought it was delicious. If that's the case, I think I should be able to eat it.
OK, I'll get it for you to eat.
The husband immediately went to Ise, which is now Mie Prefecture in Japan. After a few days, he still didn't come back. Hashihime was very uneasy and set off to Ise to find her husband. She wandered on the shore, and the hazy figure of her beloved appeared in the waves. There were drops of water all over his body and his face was bloodless. The husband wriggled his pale lips and recited a Japanese song: 小筵さむしろにころも片组かたしきTonight こよいもやわれをWaiting まつらむUji うじのbridge姫はしひめ.
It means: There is only one person's clothes spread on the straw mat, and I am still waiting for my Uji Hashi-hime tonight.
Qiao Ji was shocked and wanted to run to her husband, but her husband disappeared. Only then did Hashihime realize that her husband accidentally slipped and fell into the sea while picking wakame from the coastal rocks and drowned. Hashihime could only return to Uji River in grief.
When men and women spent the night together during the Heian period, they usually took off their clothes and spread them on the mat as bedding. Japan at that period was also very poor and barren, and it was common to not have enough to eat or wear or keep warm. From the use of clothes as bedding, we can see how miserable the lives of the Japanese people were at that time. A piece of clothing is used to spread only one person's clothes, which means sleeping alone.
The Hashihime in this legend is not a goddess, nor is she the aristocratic woman hiding behind the curtain in "The Tale of Genji", but a commoner bridge-keeper who seems to live with her husband. The husband went to a distant place to pick wakame for his pregnant wife. This act was also very common.
"The Tale of Genji" portrays the evil Hashihime as a beautiful, virtuous and infatuated woman, and her husband is not a heartless and unjust person, he is even a good man like Hou Yi who dares to take risks for his wife.
During the Middle Ages when public security was not good, it was not uncommon in the Middle Ages for a husband to go away and die in a foreign country, leaving his pregnant wife behind, waiting night after night for her husband to return. During this period, Qiao Ji changed her mind and became the embodiment of evil.
It is said that a woman who was abandoned by her husband went to Kifune Shrine to pray to the gods to avenge her husband on her behalf because she hated her husband for having a different relationship. At this time, a priest told the woman: Tie your hair into five horns, wear a three-legged iron ring on your head, light a fire with three legs, paint your face with red pills, wear red clothes, look angry, and go to the south. Immerse yourself in the Uji River in this posture for twenty-one days, and you will be able to fulfill your wish.
The woman really believed it, and she did as the priest said. She immersed herself in the water of the Uji River and prayed, and finally turned into a terrifying female ghost on the night of the full moon. After that, she killed her unfaithful husband and her husband's new love as she wished. It is not difficult to understand that she was possessed by the evil Hashihime. People have two sides, and they also have two sides when they become ghosts after death. Everyone in the world loves beautiful things and wants to protect them; they also hate hateful things and want to destroy the hateful things.
In this period, Qiao Ji is no longer the woman who was waiting for her husband infatuatedly, but if you dare to abandon me, I will give you a good look, this image of a big monster that makes people frightened.
In my opinion, it’s Hashihime’s evil side that takes over again at this time.
There is also a legend about a female ghost in Kyoto's Juqiao (戾 Bridge, as the name suggests, a wooden bridge filled with resentment, the same wooden bridge where Hashihime committed suicide in love). Due to the long history of the bridge, there are various legends, but the origin of the name Liqiao is as follows:
In the early Heian period, Dr. Wen Feng was a consultant to Sanshin Seiyuki. When his funeral procession passed by this bridge, he happened to meet Seiyuki Hachiman Jozo Kisho who was practicing Buddhism in other places and came back from Kumano. After Jingzang prayed wholeheartedly, Qingxing regained consciousness, and father and son were able to say their final goodbyes. From then on, people called this bridge the Violent Bridge.
Tsuna Watanabe, a retainer of Minamoto no Yorimitsu, a military commander in the middle of the Heian period, happened to meet a beautiful woman while passing by the Sui Bridge one day. Watanabe Tsuna accidentally looked at the river under the bridge and found that the shadow reflected on the water was a female ghost. He immediately pulled out the famous sword given by his master and cut off the right arm of the female ghost. Minamoto Yorimitsu kept his arm in a box, but later he was tricked by a female ghost who turned into an old mother and took his arm back. I don’t know if this story is about Hashihime, but it’s probably not Hashihime, but the rumor that one of Minamoto norimitsu’s subordinates fought a monster when he was conquering Shuten Doji.
As time goes by, Qiao Ji's story and rumors become increasingly unclear, and the truth is lost in the torrent of history. Now, there is a small Hashihime Shrine to the west of Uji Bridge in Japan. It is said that she is the goddess who severs the relationship between men and women. When locals hold weddings, they usually avoid passing by the shrine. Enshrined in the shrine is a female ghost statue with a naked upper body and a crimson culottes on the lower body. She has a snake wrapped around her left hand and a fishing hook in her right hand. It seems that the Japanese are deeply afraid of the rumors of Hashihime crossing the bridge and killing people...
After I walked out, I sighed about the deep affection and bitterness of ancient women. Love is a double-edged sword. The more you love, the more you will hate, just like the Tai Chi diagram. The balance must be grasped well in order to be harmonious.
The legend of Hashihime tells us that we should not be careless in life, and we must be more considerate of each other.
I met Su Fengfeng and Xu Chengcheng face to face, and said, "I've done it to defeat the enemy without fighting. From now on, it's up to you."
Yougu Xiang's voice came again: "In the third level, Zhang Ruoxu won, then in the fourth level, our side is Xi, who is your representative?"
Su Fengfeng stood up and said, "It's my turn." After saying that, he stepped forward and walked into the barrier. The enemy he faced was a fierce woman with a fleshy face and a thick body.
