I am Xiao Qi, a Sichuan girl who likes demons and ghosts, a cute girl who is addicted to nonsense, because my field of expertise is mythology and ghosts, so the direction of my answer today is the ghost culture in Japanese culture.
Japan is the world's most ghost god country, Japan is deeply influenced by the Chinese Tang style culture, I saw a friend in the group a few days ago, now we have not learned the traditional characters, oracle bones, gold script, etc. in Japan have opened a special discipline, and we now have a small number of blood in Japan There are also many people to learn, as for traditional Chinese medicine is more important than the domestic.
Influenced by the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Japan believes that all things have animism, there are thousands of yokai living in Japan, and there are 400-600 kinds of yokai that have become famous.
After the word ghost spread to Japan, the meaning quietly changed, becoming synonymous with some kind of wild monster.
In Japanese folklore, the image of a ghost is often described as a tenacious giant with horns on its head, red or blue skin, and a golden rod.
As a powerful and ferocious youkai like an orc, it is very different from the "ghost" of Chinese, and it is easier to remind people of the "Golden Horn King", "Silver Horn King" or Bull Demon King in "Journey to the West", which is characterized by a shawl and sharp horns, a blood basin mouth with terrifying fangs, brass bell eyes, a naked upper body, a tiger skin underneath, a tall and strong body, sharp claws, and a huge wolf tooth stick as a weapon, which can eat people.
If the skin has various colors, such as red, blue, or black, it is called "red ghost", "green ghost", "black ghost".
Japanese scholar Akiko Baba mentioned in "The Study of Ghosts" that the image of Japanese ghosts is related to the orientation of the ghost gate.
In the Chinese Classic of Mountains and Seas, the northeast direction (between the ugly Yin) is the haunt of many ghosts, that is, the ghost gate.
Ugly and Yin correspond to cattle and tigers, respectively.
The image of the ghost in modern Japan was formed during the Heian period.
Since the orientation between ugly and yin is called "ghost gate", the Japanese people thought accordingly, adding the characteristics of cattle (ugly) and tiger (yin), so there was a specific prototype, and later under the influence of Buddhism, the imagery of The Rakshasa was also introduced into it.
In short, the Japanese "ghost" is roughly equivalent to the Chinese "demon" and the general name of the ghost.
In addition to the classic ghost images mentioned above, other Japanese yokai can also be collectively referred to as "ghosts".
The "ghost" in the famous Japanese legend "Hundred Ghosts Nocturnal Walk" is a variety of yokai, not a ghost transformed from the death of a person in the middle Chinese.
Most of these ghosts and monsters who are evil to the world have tragic stories, and most of them are also human beings at the beginning, and most of them also have a desolate life, they are either abandoned or persecuted, full of human greed and resentment, attachment and attachment, full of attachment to the world of ordinary things and finally fall into the ghost path.
Like us, they wander in every dark and damp corner of the world, constantly searching with obsession, and finally deduce one touching or bleak story after another.
But unlike the Chinese ghosts, which are destined to be captured and destroyed by decent people, the Japanese ghosts are respected by the world, and they have their own habitats and even enjoy the worship of incense like the gods.
I am Xiao Qi, a Sichuan girl who is addicted to studying the Classics of Mountains and Seas and demons and ghosts, likes to pay attention to me, and if there are different opinions, I am welcome to correct.