Who knows the Japanese folk tale The Legend of the Red Oni

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Japanese scholars believe that this kind of saying that eating peaches can become young and immortal is likely to be the famous Chinese legend of the fairy peach of the Queen Mother of the West. In Japan, there are also ballads called "Nishi Queen Mother" and "Togashi Shuo" (scripts of the classical Japanese drama "Noh"). There is a folk legend that peaches are a supernatural fruit that blooms once every 3,000 years, and the story of Momotaro is related to this tradition.

However, in the above story of rejuvenation, Momotaro's birth is viviparous, which is an ordinary and ordinary human phenomenon, and the strange thing is that people become young and pregnant after eating peaches.

Later, Momotaro's story evolved further, and Momotaro changed from viviparity to "fruit", that is, the peach that we often read about today gives birth to Momotaro, and this type of Momotaro story is called "fruit-born". The fruit-borne type was later eliminated and the rejuvenated type was eliminated. The change in the way he was born greatly changed the interest of the story, making Momotaro's story more beautiful and fantastical.

The story of "fruit-born" is not only found in Japan, but also in folk tales of other countries. In addition to Momotaro, Japan also has melons born from courgettes and bamboo seedlings; Joseon also has the story of King Glough. These children born from plants later became heroes or legends.

It is a somewhat universal belief in plants as the mother and womb of life. Animism may have been the earliest source of this belief, but it was later combined with the non-viviparous beliefs of heroes and the curiosity of humans about the unknown world, and the story of Momotaro's birth came to light.

The second half of Momotaro's story focuses on the acquisition of treasure by killing demons on Onijima, so one of the focuses of folklore research is the symbolic meaning and role of peaches in folklore. It is often discussed that the function of peaches in folk beliefs to ward off evil spirits is highly likely influenced by Chinese culture. Since ancient times in China, the Han people have the custom of taking "peach fruit" as a mascot to eliminate evil spirits, and now many places still retain the custom of hanging peach leaves at the door.

This custom is also practiced in Japanese society today. For example, "On the New Year, people often use three or four peach leaves, surrounded by straw, and put a tangerine in the middle as an ornament in front of the car, from luxury cars to delivery trucks. There are also some families who hang this ornament on the side of the 'entrance' (the front and main entrance of Japanese-style houses).

In the "Yellow Springs Country", which was first seen in the Kojiki in Japan, Iyenagi was chased by the Yellow Springs Ugly Girl, the Eight Thunder Gods, and 1,500 Yellow Springs Army, and when he was chased to the foot of the Yellow Springs Hirazaka, Iyenagi took the three peaches that grew there and threw them at the pursuers, and the pursuers fled at once. Iyenagi said to Momoko, "You have to help me as you are now, and when the beings born in China are in trouble, go and help them."

Then, he named the peach "Great God Real Life". Zhou Zuoren once commented on this and said that the use of peaches to repel the ugly girl of Huangquan was the origin of using peaches to avoid ghosts, which was probably influenced by the Chinese peach arc arrow.

Japanese oni culture.

In Japan, it is called the day before the beginning of spring.

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Momotaro, or Taro Urashima would be fine.

This is an ancient Chinese story called "Huayu".

Momotaro, One Inch Mage, etc.

One inch mage is very good-looking, I highly recommend.

Ceramic dolls, corridor rag dolls (ragdolls are very scary symbols in Japan, so ragdolls can be recommended).