Introduction to the album "July Streaming Fire"
In July, the fire is flowing, the cicadas are singing frogs, and the Olympic games have been completed for the most part. During the month, people worked hard to find new praises with their eyes, and did not hesitate to give applause to the world's best athletes who embodied the Olympic spirit.
The blue summer sky, which was originally pleasant, still could not get out of the shadow of the epidemic. After some silence, the "Toei Lotus Wind" column was launched in August. "The lotus leaves are infinitely blue, and the lotus flowers are different red." The female perspective is always unwilling to ignore what is happening around her, no matter how much or less, the brushstrokes can always describe the trajectory of the years.
Although the heart is full of lead, but can insist on writing bit by bit, what kind of strong heart must be able to do it? I hope that readers will continue to support us in running this literary column.
——Hua Chun, President of the Japanese Chinese Women Writers Association
Japan Chinese Women Writers Association【Toei Lotus Wind】
One of the essays on the literary album "July Flowing Fire"
Author: Hua Chun
Early in the morning, rush to Tokyo Station to catch up with the Shinkansen Express departing at 7 o'clock. Under the epidemic situation, with office workers crowding on the commuter platform to get off the bus, it is inevitable to think of the word "dense", can't help but beat the drum in their hearts, and add an additional layer of defensive masks to their faces. Fortunately, there were very few passengers on the Shinkansen, and then Nagoya's transfer to another limited express train was empty, gradually relaxing the tight strings. Arriving at Tsu Station at about 10:00 a.m., I got off the train, and Professor Arai of Mie University greeted him, got into his royal car after a wave of greetings and a cold noise, and sped up the mountain road to Iga Ueno in Mie Prefecture. I was unfamiliar with this place name, which is far from Tokyo, but I heard Professor Arai introduce that Iga was not only the land of ninjas in ancient Japan, but also the birthplace of the haiku master Matsuo Basho. In another hour, I will enter the treasure trogen of ninjutsu cultivation in the Edo period, like a refreshing cool breeze, which makes me feel very emotional, hoping to be able to do my wish to visit the famous spots in Mie Prefecture, where Professor Arai is a treasure.
The first time I walked into the Ninja Museum in Iga, I was greeted by a very ordinary Ichiken family, which the Japanese called "Yashiki". In order to protect the weapons and ninjutsu that have been passed down from their ancestors and to protect them from the threat of other separatist forces, ninjas hide various hidden mechanisms on floors, stairs, walls, or sliding doors. The children among the tourists, who are most happy to play peek-a-boo, are excited to look around when they see the person playing the ninja suddenly disappear. The floor under your feet is likely to be mobile, and the door may rotate out of a dark room with a push. Until the other party appeared, the children jumped and jumped with joy, and the adults could not help but be curious, and swept through the mysterious corners with their eyes. If it weren't for the ninja stage performances and archives behind it, you would almost indulge in this game and forget that the ninja's mission is to gather all kinds of intelligence for the monarch, which is a kind of "agent" or "secret agent" profession in Chinese.
At noon, Ueno Park, located on the hillside, reveals the white-walled Ueno Castle Castle Tower deep in the jungle. Legend has it that its sturdy Ishigaki wall is the tallest in Japan. The famous director Akira Kurosawa's "Spider's Nest City" was filmed here, but the plot was adapted from Shakespeare's famous play "Macbeth". At this time, behind the ninja Yashiki, on the stage of pulling up the big trellis like a circus, the ninja show of real knives and guns began.
Darts fly in front of your eyes, and the realistic sense of presence leads the audience back to the sinister ways of ancient Japanese ninjas. The actors explain the various ninja equipment and uses one by one as they perform.
The magical legends of ninjas are truly innumerable. According to the live commentary, ninjas differ from samurai in that ninjas usually do not use large knives or spears, but instead use short weapons and hidden weapons that are easy to carry. For example, hand-wrapped swords, scythes, fire axes, blowing arrows, etc. In addition, in the era of the princes, ninjas were ordered to collect information on the enemy army and had to learn various "ninjutsu". "Ninjutsu" has secret exploration in a broad sense, swordplay, fire, witchcraft, pharmacy, astronomy, etc. The so-called "Iga Ryu Ninjutsu" is best at witchcraft and fire, so the land is a basin surrounded by green mountains on all sides, and many outlaws have fled in history. A strong claim is that it represents the Hattori surname of the Watanabe clan. According to historical records, Hattori Hanzo is a descendant of the Chinese Qin surname, and after settling in Japan, he changed his name to the Japanese surname Hattori. This clan brought witchcraft and magic, the most representative of which is the Nine Lives Talisman. In a duel, the ninja has two hands sealed, and the index and middle fingers are used to form a knife and cut nine characters.
I was quickly given the opportunity to practice, and Professor Arai asked me to take a picture with the stage ninja and behave in a good way. In a rush of excitement, I learned ninja darts. The result was really ugly, 60 kilograms above the ninja's prescribed size, far from the decisive and brave, one-hit combat situation.
It is necessary to excerpt here a passage from the authoritative work of ninjutsu, Wanchuan Jihai:
The roots of ninjutsu thought came from Lü Wang, the Prince of Jiang, at the time of the Yin Zhou Dynasty in China. It was he who first proposed the concept of ninjutsu and wrote it in the famous book Liutao. Later, Sun Wu, Zhang Liang, Han Xin, and others successively improved the theory of ninjutsu. In particular, Sun Wu's "Sun Tzu's Art of War" was highly respected by the ninja class. At this time, ninjutsu also basically formed a prototype composed of several parts such as scheming, formation, yin and yang, and skill. As ninjutsu spread to Japan, ninjas emerged and developed in Japan.
Iga Ryu ninjas are famous all over the world through Hollywood movies, and if it was the Taiping period in the past, foreign tourists continued to flock here. Now, under the severe epidemic situation, the whole park seems very empty and quiet. At this time, the photo was taken, and there was no shadow behind it. In the afternoon, the temperature was high, the heat wave outside was rolling, and there was no suspense about Ueno Castle, so we turned around and went to the Basho Memorial Hall.
Basho Ong's hometown of Tsukasa
Haiku is the shortest fixed form of poetry in the world. The original haiku was only a kind of wordplay, and it was this haiku Matsuo Basho who was born in Iga to promote this form to the field of art.
I think the exterior of the Basho Memorial is a rather ugly cement building, and inside, there happens to be an exhibition with the theme around the Hai people's food table - "What food did basho eat?" ”
After reading a circle inside, I learned that Basho Weng wrote many haiku related recipes in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Professor Arai picked up a piece of paper and discussed the answer with me, which translates as follows:
Q1: Which haiku did Basho use before moving to Fukagawa?
Answer: Tao Qing (1675)
Q2: When Basho was young, whose house did he work?
A: Todo family
Question 3: The name of the station that is mentioned in the Basho Haiku sentence fifty-three times in tokaido and is produced in the name of "yam juice"?
A: Mariko-juku
4.Haiku "000 cherry blossoms with juice in the tree", 请说说标说标标
Answer: ナマス (finely cut raw fish and raw meat, cold mix with red and white radish shreds)
问5: Haiku "Tokitori must have dyed" Sato presentation 哪种鱼?
Answer: Bonito
Question 6: What kind of food did Basho eat for the moon festival and "Shadow Waiting" (waiting for the moonrise) to accept the feast at the Edo Daisui Residence?
A: Tofu Tian Le
问7: Basho's Ying-gai "00 Yabuaki shibutoki rain", the filing of autumn is a finger tithing?
Answer: Furcock (picking matsutake mushrooms)
Q8: What did Basho eat at a haiku dinner hosted by a Kansai guest?
A: Puffer fish soup
问9: Basho-like "Okuno 细michi" Where to find the point of Ogaki Ogaki Gin"Autumn divided into the lid of 0000", is it a lawsuit?
A: Hagurari
Q10: What are the vegetable varieties that are grown with konjac and eggplant in the vegetable field in the courtyard of the family home where basho was born, and are also used in medicinal seasonings?
Answer: Tang Xin Zi (Pepper)
We answered the last of these ten questions incorrectly. Still a small prize encouraged by the memorial. Then I stood for a long time in front of the basho travel map magnified on one wall.
In 1689, Matsuo Basho and his disciple Kawakawa Tsang-ryō set out from Tokyo and traveled 2,400 kilometers north. The route shown in the picture is the famous "Olympian Trail". Through Iga's field visits, I seemed to be able to perceive that Basho also had a "ninjutsu" approach and a engrossed and tenacious ninja will. The recipe chosen by basho is basically in line with the "low calorie, high nutrition" advocated by modern life, which is equivalent to a kind of self-protection for traveling in the cultural hardships of wearing a light body.
Judging from the walking speed of 20 to 40 kilometers a day with his brother-in-law disciple Kawai Zengliang, we cannot help but be surprised that he is physically superior and walks like a fly. It almost coincides with the extreme physical skills pursued by ninjas. I can't help but think about how "ninja foot", "floating foot", "dog walk", "deep grass rabbit step" will appear to walk like the wind.
This kind of strange power is chaotic, and like the marathon athletes who won the Olympic Games, they need long-term cultivation and hard work. If anyone had heard of the legend that Basho was a shogunate "secret agent," they might be a little suspicious when they came to the Iga Ninja Kingdom. However, what people pay more attention to today is this haisheng poet, who introduces the spirit of Zen Buddhism and classical Chinese poetry into haiku, and puts forward the aesthetic concept of idleness and silence, elegant and sincere. Matsuo Basho, japan's greatest and unprecedented haisheng poet, left many manuscripts and sentence tablets for inspiration in his hurried life journey.
Amaranth Temple
When we came to the Annunner-an, one of the five local Basho-an temples, founded by disciple Hattori Toho, we had to be impressed by this garden where you can feel the beauty of Japan's loneliness everywhere. 蓑蓑庵 is famous for the Haiku an (草之庵) (草之庵 hearing the cries of the worms) by Basho as the haiku (蓑音の音コ音の庵).
After Basho's death, Hattori Toho became the central figure of Iga-Homon, using The Worm-an as a base to pass on Basho's haiku to future generations. Tu Fang's greatest achievement was that in addition to compiling Basho's haiku treatises in his later years into "Three Volumes", he also collected all the works of Basho's career and completed three books, such as "Banana Weng Sentence Collection", "Banana Weng Anthology", and "Ao Xiao Dao", which were provided for the deceased master's spirit.
In front of Matsuo Basho's hometown of Tsuka, I silently clapped my hands together to thank the Basho poet for bringing immortal artistic vitality with his haiku of "Hai Zen as One" and "Elegant Silence".
At this point, the Iga trip in July, behind the ellipsis, came to a successful end.