【Name】:Smelting birds
[Category]: Demon
【Features】: such as dove, cyan
【Ability】: Serve the tiger to harm people and change adults
【Location】:Yuedi (present-day Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam and other coastal areas)
Smelting birds, a kind of bird in the legendary Yuedi, one of the "mountain fish". Because "smelting birds" can serve tigers to harm people, change their form, and like to eat shrimp and crabs, there are also "smelting birds" and "mountain charms" are the same thing.
"Ye Bird" comes from [Western Jin Dynasty] Zhang Hua's "Natural History", the original text: "There are birds in the mountains of Yuedi, such as doves, cyan, known as Ye Bird." Wearing a large tree as a nest like a lifter, its household caliber is several inches, and the perimeter is decorated with chalks, red and white, and resembles a shooting hou. When logging sees this tree, it is avoided. Or in the night, people do not see birds, and birds do not know that people do not see themselves, and they chirp: 'Go up! 'Tomorrow the cheap rush up the tree;' 'Tomorrow is cheap and urgent. If he goes but laughs and laughs, he can stop cutting. If there is wickedness and transgression, the tiger will come to keep it all night, and those who do not know will harm others. This bird sees its form in the daytime, and the bird also hears its song at night, and the man also hears. When Guan Le is a man of sorrow and joy, three feet long, and the stone crab in the stream is burned between the fires, and it must not be violated. The Yue people call this bird the ancestor of Yue Zhu. ”
The meaning is: there is a bird in the deep mountains around the yuedi area, as large as a dove, with blue feathers, called "smelting bird". The bird chisels through large trees to build its nest, and its nest is as large as a vessel of five or six liters, consolidated with mud, in the color of red and white, and in shape like an arrow target. Once a person who goes up the mountain to cut wood sees such a tree, he has to avoid it. Sometimes at night people can't see birds, and birds know that people can't see themselves, so they will call "Duh! Duh! go up! "Tomorrow you can go up the hill and cut wood." If you encounter "Duh! Duh! go up! "Sound, you have to go down the mountain the next day." If it warns, but the logger does not mean to hurt and offend it, it can also leave the logging behind. But if the logger offends it by uttering foul language, it will call a tiger to guard the forest, and the logger will be killed if he does not leave. This bird looks like a bird during the day and listens to its call at night as a human being. Sometimes it will also take the form of a human, three feet long, go to the mountain stream to catch stone crabs, and cook them with the help of the campfire of passers-by, and people cannot invade it. The people of Yuedi said that this bird was the ancestor of Yuedi Wuzhu.
The mountain fish said
"ShanYu said" from [Southern Song Dynasty] Zheng Jizhi's "Yongjia County Chronicle": "As a mountain charm, a mountain luo, a mahogany meat, a hot meat, a Hui, a flying dragon." Such as dove blue, also known as smelting birds. Like a shooting marquis, the offender can serve the tiger and harm people, and burn people's huts. ”
If according to the "Yongjia County", "smelting birds" is "mountain fish"?
Conceptually, "smelting birds" does belong to a kind of "mountain fish". "Mountain fish" is a kind of elves that have no entity, but can change or possess other animals to act, and are a general term for the group of "mountain elves" with similar characteristics. Therefore, there are actually many kinds of yokai that are named "mountain fish", and the more common ones are: "mountain charm" and "mountain face".
The difference between "Mountain Charm" and "Mountain Charm" is as follows:
"ShanJiao" (山臊), also known as "Shan [犭喿]", is also the original basic prototype of "Shanyu", from the Divine Anomaly Sutra;
The image is: "Human face monkey body, one hand and one foot, body, like to eat shrimp and crabs." ”
The main abilities are: "Possessed, able to change, good at lying, making people sick, knowing people's names and harming people." ”
"Mountain Charm" is the narrow concept of "Mountain Fish", from the "Yongjia County";
The image is: "Shaped like a shooter (i.e. "arrow target"). ”
The main ability is: "Can serve the tiger to harm people, burn people's huts." ”
The "mountain fish" in later literature is to add the ability of "mountain charm" on the basis of "mountain face", which can not only "serve the tiger and harm people" or even incarnate into a tiger. (For details, please refer to "Kyushu Yokai Record - Mountain Face")
After this comparison, it is not difficult to see that there are many similarities between "mountain charm" and "mountain face", so it is often confused by later generations, and "ye bird" also has many similarities with the two:
[1] Incident Hou
The overall image of "Mountain Charm": "It is like shooting." ”
The nest built by the "smelting bird": "Wearing a large tree as a nest is like a lifter, its household caliber is several inches, and the perimeter is decorated with earth chalks, red and white, and shaped like a shooter." ”
[2] Serving tigers harms people
When offended, the "mountain charm" "can serve the tiger and harm people, and burn people's huts." ”
"Ye bird" will also issue a warning when offended, and if people do not listen, "then the tiger will keep watch all night, and those who do not know will harm people." ”
[3] Likes to eat shrimp and crabs
"Shan Zhen" likes to eat shrimp and crabs, and often borrows the campfire of passers-by to cook shrimp and crabs. "Sex is not afraid of people, see people stop staying, twilight depends on their fire, to burn shrimp and crabs."
When the "smelting bird" is happy, it transforms into a human form, and also borrows the campfire of passers-by to roast shrimp and crabs. "When Guan Le is a man of sorrow and joy, he is three feet long, and if he takes a stone crab from a stream, he will burn it in the fire, and he shall not commit a crime."
In [Ming] Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is more directly proposed: "The plagiarism beast has Shandu, Shan [犭喿], and Muke, and birds also have Zhi bird, Shanxiao, and Wooden Guest bird." These are all endowed with anger, and the same as the aliens are in harmony with each other. ”
Shanjing Class Collection [Ri Zhengde] "And Han Sancai Tuhui"
That is to say, whether it is "mountain face", "mountain charm", "wooden guest", "mountain Xiao", "smelting bird", "mountain capital", etc., they are all "similar aliens". This is why later generations often refer to "mountain elves" with the name "mountain fish", and these "mountain elves" actually have individual differences.
Image reference
Bird Diagram "Bird and Insect Codex"
Literature
[Western Jin Dynasty] Zhang Hua's "Natural history"
There are birds in the deep mountains of Yuedi, such as doves, cyan, known as smelting birds. Wearing a large tree as a nest like a lifter, its household caliber is several inches, and the perimeter is decorated with chalks, red and white, and resembles a shooting hou. When logging sees this tree, it is avoided. Or night meditation, people do not see birds, birds also know that people do not see themselves, and the song is "aggressively going up"! Tomorrow cheap rush up the tree; "aggressively go down"! Tomorrow is cheap and urgent. If he goes but laughs and laughs, he can stop cutting. If there is wickedness and transgression, the tiger will come to keep it all night, and those who do not know will harm others. This bird sees its form in the daytime, and the bird also hears its song at night, and the man also hears. When Guan Le is a man of sorrow and joy, three feet long, and the stone crab in the stream is burned between the fires, and it must not be violated. The Yue people call this bird the ancestor of Yue Zhu.
[Eastern Jin Dynasty] Gan Bao's "Search for God"
There are birds in the deep mountains of Yuedi, as big as doves, cyan, and the name is "smelting birds". Wear large trees, make nests, such as five or six liters, the diameter of the household is several inches: the perimeter is decorated with earthen moats, red and white, and resembles a shooting hou. When the loggers saw this tree, they avoided it; or when they did not see the birds in the night, nor did the birds know that they did not see them, they called out, "Go up!" "Tomorrow is cheap and urgent; "Aggressively go down!" "Tomorrow is cheap and urgent; if he does not make it go, but he who laughs and laughs, he may stop cutting." If there is defilement and what it stops, there is a tiger who will keep it all night, and if he does not go, he will hurt him. This bird, who sees its form in the daytime, is also a bird; listens to its song at night, and also a bird; and when there are spectators of music, he takes the form of a human, three feet long, and takes a stone crab in a stream; and he who is hot is not to be offended. The Yue people call this bird the ancestor of "Yue Zhu".
[Southern Dynasty Song] Zheng Jizhi's "Records of Yongjia County"
As a mountain charm, a mountain camel, a mahogany, a hot meat, a Hui, a flying dragon. Such as dove blue, also known as smelting birds. Like a shooting marquis, the offender can serve the tiger and harm people, and burn people's huts.
[Ming] Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica
Shi Zhen yue: According to Gan Bao's "Search for God" cloud: There are birds in the deep mountains of the land, as big as a dove, cyan. Through the tree as a kiln, as large as five or six liters, caliber several inches, decorated with chalk, red and white, like a shooting hou. When the loggers see this tree, they avoid it, but if they do it, they can serve the tiger and burn the hut. When you see it in the daytime, the bird shape is also; when you smell its song at night, the bird sounds also; sometimes it is human-shaped, three feet long, and it goes into the stream to take crabs, and it is the fire of the world that eats, and the mountain people call it the ancestor of the blessing. Another duan cheng style "Unitary Yang Miscellaneous Tricks" Yun: It is said that in the past, when someone encountered a flood, they ate the bark of the tree and starved to death. Those who live in the roots of the tree are pigs, those who live in the trees are all people, and those who live at the tail of the trees are birds. The birds all have mirror prints under their left flanks, two inches and one minute wide. The southern people eat its food, and the taste is like muzhi also. The beasts are Shandu, Shandu, Shanhu, and Muke, while birds also have Zhi bird, Shanxiao, and Wooden Guest Bird. These are all endowed with anger, and the same as the aliens are in harmony with each other.
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