What does a teacher of Yin and Yang do? Is it a ghost? Taoist priest?

First, the origin of Yin and Yang teachers

What kind of person is the teacher of Yin and Yang? Simply put, it can be said that it is a fortune teller or an illusionist. Not only do they know how to look at the stars and face each other, but they can also measure directions, know disasters, draw spells and perform illusions. People also realize that invisible forces, such as fate, soul and ghost, have the ability to dominate these things.

The organization formed by the gathering of Yin and Yang teachers is called "Yin and Yang Road". Japanese "Yin-Yang Daoism" originated from the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in China's contention period. In the age of scientific ignorance, in order to avoid disasters, people always hope to know the changes of heaven and earth in advance, and the appearance of "Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory" makes this wish come true. His masterpiece is the Book of Changes, which has been circulated since the Zhou Dynasty!

In the 6th century A.D., China's theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements was introduced into Japan by mixing Taoist incantations and esoteric occupations. After landing in Japan, it infiltrated some local cultures and formed a unique "Yin-Yang Road". However, it was already the tenth century when this term officially appeared in Japanese historical materials. At this time, Yin-Yang Tao is different from China's early thought of Yin-Yang. It has divination, sacrifice, astronomy, calendar and other applications, and can be used to explain everything from the country to the people. Shoto Kutaishi, who promoted the ancient dynasty, is the best person to use this knowledge. He believes in Buddhism and considers the coordination of Yin and Yang and the five elements when formulating the "Twelve Ranks of Crown" and clothing colors, which has a great influence on Japanese society. Since then, Yin and Yang teachers have become a popular "profession" and entered a period of all-round prosperity.

Second, the period of peace-the prosperity of Yin and Yang teachers

On Shili Avenue, the grass is overgrown and shrouded in black fog, and the cinnabar tower is dusty and rustled. The fragrance is curled up, the fan is gently shaken, and the nobles are elegant. However, the red plum hung in colorful clothes and could not hide the dense bones. Ghosts, demons and demons exist in the world and reside in everyone's heart. ...

Heian period, an era facing the Tang Empire across the sea. It gave birth to a splendid culture that amazed future generations, but it also covered up many unknown darkness. From 794 AD, Kyoto moved from Wang Chang to Ping 'an, and heian period, which ruled the world for more than 400 years, slowly kicked off. However, peace in Beijing is not a paradise, with ghosts criss-crossing-monsters don't stay in distant forests or mountains, but live with human beings in Beijing with bated breath, even under the same roof. Ping 'an Beijing has been eaten away by the supernatural, becoming the nest of magic shadows and an active stage for teachers of Yin and Yang.

In order to eliminate the contradiction between heaven, earth, man and ghost, the "Yin and Yang Masters" showed their magical powers. They used all-encompassing divination and mysterious spells to exorcise evil spirits, and they became powerful protectors from the royal family to the Li people! However, the job of Yin and Yang Division is not easy to get. In order to survive in the court of intrigue, they must be familiar with all elegant things, such as chorus, China's poems, pipa, flute, incense and tea ceremony. In addition, you should have the ability to see through people's hearts and the professional ethics of not revealing secrets. Therefore, those who could become teachers of Yin and Yang were first-class and first-class talents at that time.

During the Nara period, the Emperor decided to use Yin-Yang Taoism as one of the means to rule the people, and brought its related technology and talents into the national management to closely monitor its development. Ordinary people are forbidden to own special books on Yin and Yang Daoism, such as He Tu, Luo Shu and Taiyi, and Yin and Yang Daoism has become the exclusive tool of the state. Yin-yang master began to appear as the national exclusive astrologer, and reached the peak of development in the whole Heian period.

During the reign of Emperor Tianwu, the official organization "Yin Yang Liao" was formally established. Yinyangliao has a chief "Yinyangtou", a doctor of Yin and Yang, a doctor of astronomy and a doctor of calendar, two doctors of missing engravings and six teachers of Yin and Yang. Its main duties are to formulate astronomical calendars, judge good and bad luck, delimit topography, geomantic omen and hold ceremonies. It has 89 people at its disposal. The way of yin and yang has now become a part of the legal system. Whoever controls Yin Yang Liao has the ability to interpret everything. Yin and Yang Taoism became the emperor's imperial learning.

The composition of Yin-Yang Liao: the leader of Liao Dynasty has one official, one official, one junior, one yin-yang teacher, six yin-yang teachers, two yin-yang doctors, one Huang Li doctor, one astronomical doctor, ten doctors who are missing engravers, two doctors who are guarding Chen Ding, and twenty people who are in charge of the Ministry. Work content: 1 Yin-Yang Road: judging land, geography,

Third, the terminator of the East-Abe Harumi

Although the rank of Yin-Yang division is not high, it is mostly relied on by powerful ministers and nobles, and its position is far above that of ordinary officials and warriors. At that time, He Maozhongxing, who ranked first in the division of Yin and Yang, accepted a handsome young boy as a disciple under the surprised eyes of the world. This handsome guy is the later famous master of Yin and Yang Daoism-Abe Harumi.

family background

Akira Abe (92 1- 1005)

The legendary story of Abe Harumi is a household name in Japan. In appearance, he looks like Pan An; In intelligence, he is both civil and military. He is a hero in the eyes of the people and an idol in the eyes of countless girls. His figure has emerged in many literary works, TV programs and various unofficial history's different opinions. The "pentagram" symbol (also called the inscrutable platycodon grandiflorum seal), which is often used to subdue demons, was invented by Abe Seiming.

Abe Harumi was born in 2 1 (AD 92 1) in Yan Xi in the middle of the Heian Dynasty and died in the second year of Kuanhong (AD 1005). Abe Seiming is the eighth grandson of Abe Zhongmalu, a famous envoy of the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records such as Zunbei and Ampere System Diagram, he is the right minister Ampere. He studied under He Maozhong, a famous teacher of Yin and Yang in Heian period.

At first glance, in the middle of the haunted Ping 'an Dynasty, this man who was born in all directions marked the most mysterious history for the mysterious Ping 'an Beijing. His most well-known birth legend is the heterogeneous marriage in which a man and a fox fall in love. According to Bam Bam Copy, the enigmatic father, Cai Yi, a great food doctor, rescued a white fox from the evil Uemon. This white fox is Ge Ye, a fox spirit who has been practicing for many years in the forest of Hequan Xintai (now Osaka). She became a person and came to Cai Yi's side. From then on, they gradually fell in love with each other, and Ge Ye gave birth to a mysterious person after making a promise to each other. When I was five years old, I happened to see my mother's fox prototype, and the time for separation came. Ge Ye abandoned his crying little son and returned to the forest. "If you miss it, come and find it ... and the deepest part of spring is Xintai Forest, the leaves of Gezhi ..." The ballad sung repeatedly is the last sentence of the mother to the child. According to the instructions of this song, tomorrow I can see my mother again in a secret place in the forest and inherit a strong spiritual power. If the weather is fine tomorrow, you can see evil spirits or demons. He became famous for accurately predicting the abdication of Emperor Huashan, which was one of the reasons why Zhong Zhong later gave the inscrutable truth of Yin and Yang.

When she was a teenager, Enigma had shown extraordinary talent. When I was serving my master by car at night, I found that the nocturnal ghost, which was regarded as taboo, was an uneducated person. I immediately informed my master He Maozhongxing and let a group of people survive the disaster safely. Excellent wizard ability, so that he saw the existence of ghosts when he was young, but also let ZTE teach the profound truth of Yin and Yang.

According to the story of the past and present, in the fourth year of Tiande (AD 960), Ampere became famous as an "astronomer" enigmatically, and later became a doctor of astronomy and a barn. Three years later (A.D. 100 1), Chang Bao was awarded the title of four products, and the following year he was awarded the title of Doctor of Big Meal. Kuanhong became Zuo Jingquan's doctor in the first year. According to the records of the Tuzuka family, Anpei Mystery died in Kuanhong on September 26th, 2002, which became the memorial day of Anpei Qingming Shrine.

Chu Yao

In ancient times, the uncertainty of natural environment threatened people's daily life, floods and droughts continued, and many people died of disasters. Because the situation is so tragic, people think that those unfortunate dead will wander around the world and linger. People revere them and give them the names "demon" and "devil". Master of yin and yang, who is proficient in mystery, uses the secret weapon to manipulate the power of darkness to communicate between the underworld and the real world. In addition to performing the prescribed tasks, they often follow the requirements of emperors or nobles to exorcise ghosts, perform divination or perform magic. The famous Taoist priest Fujiwara attached great importance to Abe Harumi and repeatedly asked him to solve difficult events.

Mysterious not only has the ability to subdue demons, but also can understand bird language and summon gods to do things for themselves. Viper, Suzaku, Liuhe, Gouchen, Qinglong, Noble, Tianhou, Yin Da, Xuanwu, White Tiger, Dashang, and Sky are all mysteriously summoned twelve gods, completely obeying and protecting their masters. However, according to legend, the enigmatic wife was afraid of ghosts and gods, so she mysteriously hid them under a bridge near his mansion, which is still located in a corner of Kyoto. At that time, people thought that it was the border zone separating human life and death. Ghosts who died of worldly desires would continue to wander in the world if they could not cross the boundary of sin bridge to the underworld. ...

There are countless stories about mysterious exorcism, among which the most talked about is the story of the nine-tailed fox and the killing stone. The nine-tailed fox is a monster that turns into a peerless beauty in order to confuse the king. At present, she became a sister-in-law, and at present, she became Ji. When the Shang Dynasty perished, she was hunted by Jiang Ziya and forced to come to Japan, calling herself "Tamamo no Mae", which won the favor and trust of Emperor Bird Feather. Later, when the Emperor was ill in bed, ministers began to doubt her and asked Abe Harumi to investigate her secretly, which finally exposed the true face of Tamamo no Mae. The recovered emperor became angry from embarrassment and ordered the pursuit of "Tamamo no Mae". In the end, she was captured and killed by a mysterious person, but her ambition and obsession were left on Nasuno in the form of a "killing stone" (a stone that spewed venom to attack birds and insects, making animals inaccessible), waiting for a chance of revenge.

Fourth, the whirlwind of "Yin"

Abe's life story is widely read in The Mirror and heian period's later Story of the Past and the Present. The Kamakura era appeared many times in the Tales of Uji, Tales of Ancient and Modern Works, Tales of Heiping Family and Rise and Fall of Yuanping. During the Edo period, his anecdotes were recorded in Mysterious Stories and Lu Wudao's Great Self-examination. In modern times, the legend of Yin and Abe Sunny has been pushed to the peak of fashion, represented by the series of novels of Yin by the famous Japanese fantasy novel master Baku Yumemakura. The whirlwind of Yin and Yang teachers evolved from this has been fully spread in movies, comics, games, kabuki, language drops and other art forms, which makes Japanese people look at Abe Harumi as we look at Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang or Liu Bowen, with both respect and fear.

novel

Yin and series novels are fantasy novels based on Japanese folklore, with ancient and modern stories as the main line and two protagonists, Abe Harumi (Yin and) and Yuan (Samurai), as the center, launching a series of magical stories. Baku Yumemakura built a unique cultural scene at that time with mysterious and classical writing without losing leisure, which made Abe beautiful. Although Baku Yumemakura wrote about ghosts and gods, he thought about incantations, yin and yang and philosophical issues of life with a detached attitude, which went deep into human nature and had far-reaching implications, so he became an indispensable fresh material for film and animation adaptation.

film

Yin Yu has become a hot topic in Japan, and this film has contributed a lot. In the perfect world of screen images, Yin and Yang teachers ushered in the culmination of their success.

As an image presentation of literary works, the film Yin Series takes a coherent story with emotional branches as its main narrative content, which concretizes Abe Harumi and endows it with rich cultural significance. With a little urchin-like pity, Abe Harumi jumped onto the screen, and it was easy for the audience to fall into the fantasy world created by Yin and the gorgeous and prosperous scenery in peacetime, and it was difficult to extricate themselves. Mansai Nomura, starring Akira Abe, is even more popular. His films are divided into Yin Ⅰ and Yin Ⅱ, which deeply depict heian period's class contradiction. "Silver I" achieved the third good result at the box office that year.

Comics; comedian

There are many cartoons in The Master of Yin and Yang, the most famous of which are Reiko Okano's The Master of Yin and Yang and Yoko Iwasaki's Tan of Wang Qiren.

Reiko Okano's comic book "The Master of Yin and Yang" is mostly based on the short stories in the original novel, with simple narrative, elegant painting style, charming characters, and exquisite clothing and architecture, and its style is rare for ordinary comics at present.

In cartoons, the enigmatic figure appears as a cold image. He is passionate about everything and ignores powerful forces. Heroes with romantic and elegant manners driven away by the devil are remolded. In the works of Reiko Okano, monsters have the same love and hate as ordinary people. These changes have been strongly sought after by female readers, causing waves in Japan, and still have a high fever. With this, Reiko Okano won the highest award in Japanese comics-"Tezuka Sezuka Culture Award"!

Touching the collection of Reiko Okano's paintings, Yoko Iwasaki's "Strange Tan of the King Demon" caught the eyes of fantasy comic fans with beautiful dance. Qi Tan, the King of Seven Books: From 1988 "Evil Heaven Falls Demons" to "Ghost Ji" in 2002, it ended with the death of BOSS Orange Shadow Company, which opened a new trend of Yin and Yang teachers' comics.

Its main plot is Abe Seiming's defense of Kyoto against his brother Orange Shadow Company. The former fought the devil to defend Kyoto; The latter vowed to destroy the capital for the hatred of killing people. During this period, Abe met Fujiwara, the youngest son of the right minister and the younger brother of the emperor's favorite concubine. From mutual dislike to deep friendship, a series of intense and interesting stories happened one after another. It supplements various refurbished versions of traditional Japanese ghost stories-cherry blossoms, spiders, foxes, painted skins, goblins and athel loren ... it can really be called a well-known fantasy comic classic.

Appendix:

About Baku Yumemakura.

Baku Yumemakura, a best-selling Japanese fantasy writer, 195 1 was born in Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. 1973 graduated from the Japanese Literature Department of Donghai University. 1977 published The Death of a Frog in Fantasy Beyond the Sky magazine, which first appeared in the literary world. Now he is a member of Japan Science Fiction Writers Club and Japan Writers Association. In addition to various series of works, such as Master of Yin and Yang, Hunting of Warcraft and Biography of Hungry Wolf, which are widely praised by readers, he is also constantly pioneering and innovating in the fields of adventure novels, grotesque novels and fantasy novels. According to his own account, the earliest pen name was "Baku Yumemakura", and he began to write fan chronicles in high school. The word "tapir" is an auspicious animal that eats people's nightmares in Japanese legends. Mr. Dream Pillow took this pen name because he came up with a dream-like story.

Yin and Yang Teachers in the Warring States Period

During the Warring States Period in Japan, imperial power declined, the samurai class ruled the world, and the division of Yin and Yang gradually disappeared from the historical stage. However, most of the military advisers around Daming are Yin and Yang divisions. Celebrities in the Warring States paid great attention to divination, and the military fan in the hands of military commanders was a kind of spell. Both sides of the military fan are painted with a day and a month. In case of a fierce day when you have to go out, the moon surface of the army fan will appear during the day, so that day and night will be reversed, thus turning the fierce day into an auspicious day.

Modern manifestations of yin-yang meridians

Abe Harumi's descendants are the Tsuzuka family. In the Edo era, he was sheltered by the Tokugawa shogunate and established the "Yu Tu Door-god Way", which has always held the real power of the Yin-Yang Division Group. After the Meiji Restoration, the new government not only deprived the Moonlight people of the monopoly right to make calendars, but also abolished the Yin-Yang Road. Fortunately, there are many offshoots, headed by Tujin's family, which have secretly formed the "Door God Road Association". 1952, according to the draft constitution of freedom of religious belief drawn up by general MacArthur, Tuyumen Shen Dao became a formal religious legal person, and the inheritance of Yin and Yang Taoism still exists in the name of "family learning".

Abe Harumi is the greatest teacher of Yin and Yang in Japanese history. He is a household name in Japan, just as Jiang Ziya is in China.