In the recently updated "Inhuman" comics, a number of new characters have appeared in one go, and the shape looks quite strange, but it's also quite interesting, and they are also related to the author's hometown!
The story of chapter 1003 of the recently updated "Inhuman" comic, with the help of Jizo Bodhisattva to play in Yang Jian's pet café, led to a very popular pet in the underworld: the town tomb beast!
Let's take a look at the shapes of the following ones, isn't it quite weird, and it's interesting to look at?
According to Jizo, these small pets have become popular in the underworld, and have even become closely related to the lives of the residents of the underworld, and have become good helpers and partners in everyone's daily life. According to the setting of "Inhuman", everything has a chance to ignite the consciousness, and these tomb beasts probably have their own consciousness because of various opportunities, but after all, it is still the level of pets, and it may not be realistic to go further.
They are not only pets, but have even become a good helper for many ghosts, such as black and white impermanence will use the tomb beast to catch ghosts and drive away ghosts or something, look at this usage, it is pure as a police dog to use, don't you say, look at their shape, it is really no different from the police dog, that is, it may be in addition to the more standard "pet" we see In addition to the image, there may be some more bizarre, such as the one seen in the picture above, the head looks like a human head, but the body looks like a human body.
According to the information I went to find, there is actually a saying that the shape of the tomb beast is actually true. It's actually a special thing that people put in their tombs in ancient times. It looks a little scary and looks weird, like it is used to scare away bad things that might disturb the peace of the deceased. Ancient people believed that there might be something bad in the tomb, such as evil spirits or wild spirits, which could bully the deceased. So, they came up with the idea of the Tomb Beast, hoping to protect the souls of the dead.
So in fact, this also explains why these tomb beasts in the "Inhuman" comics look strange, because the purpose of their existence is to protect the deceased, and if you want to drive them away, you must be vicious enough.
However, this kind of shape, maybe the ghosts of the underworld look very interesting and cute, but let us humans come to see it may not be necessarily, my own words in the museum have also seen some of the ancestors left behind antiquities, it looks very shocking, but if you want to use "cute" to describe, I feel that it may not be.
This kind of culture also has a lot to do with our original author. The original author of "Inhuman" is a teacher from Xiangyang, Hubei, which is the hometown of Chu culture, and the tomb beast painted this time has a lot to do with Chu culture, and the author is also greatly regarded as promoting the culture of his hometown in his own works.
In the Chu State a long, long time ago, people especially believed in ghosts and witchcraft, and in the tombs of the Chu State, this kind of tomb beast was often found. They were probably made of wood and beautifully painted. The people of Chu State hope that putting these tomb beasts in the tomb can make the dead live in the underworld more at ease.
However, in our current society, everyone does not believe in these things very much, and with the change of customs, our funeral rites and burial methods are very different from those of ancient times. So, no one uses the Tomb Beast anymore. However, I think that although the customs have changed, as an ancient culture, the tomb beasts are still worth understanding and learning, we can not use these things, but we should remember that they once existed, and what significance they had to our ancestors.
To put it simply, the Tomb Beast is like a kind of "guardian spirit" set up by ancient people to protect the dead. It represents the beliefs and culture of ancient people, and although it is no longer used, we should also remember that our ancestors had such a culture and tradition.
So this is also the reason why I like the anime "Inhuman" very much, after watching it, it can not only bring us joy, let us relax and have fun, but also let us increase our knowledge, learn a lot of culture that we have not been exposed to and understood before, and also help our traditional culture to carry forward and inherit, so as not to be forgotten by everyone, I think this is also an excellent animation work, the great quality that can be had.