Chapter 156 one inch mage

When traveling in Japan, I often hear some folk tales.In the big tour bus, there is always a female guide who points out the scenery outside the window and tells you what mountain, water, bridge, and village it is, and at the same time tells you something about the mountain, water, bridge , Village-related stories, and sing some folk songs related to this story. But this particularly interesting and moving story about Master Yicun was discovered by myself in the Dahetian Temple in Shishan Temple beside Lake Biwa!There are many small souvenirs on the stalls under the steps of the temple. One of them is a small wooden mallet that is only one inch long. Pull out the handle of the mallet, and you can pour out two pieces of paper-thin rice grains from the mallet body. Here comes a little golden statue.

Of these two small golden statues, one is dressed as a monk, holding a mallet in his hand, and the other is a beauty in palace makeup with a fluttering skirt.When I asked, I knew it was the story of Master Yicun.Because this small mallet is so small and cute, I bought one. On the way down the mountain, I asked my Japanese friends to tell me the story of Master Yiinch. He laughed and said: This story, like other folk tales, has several versions. What I heard was: Master Yichun was a child of a farmer's family in Namba, Tsu, Japan in ancient times. His parents had no children when they were forty years old, so they went to the temple to pray, and when they came back, their mother was pregnant. When he came down, he was only one inch long.

But his parents still raised him like a treasure, and because the child was prayed before God, they named him Master Yicun.Master Yicun grew up to twelve or thirteen years old, but his figure still didn't grow, so his parents became worried.Master Yicun was a very filial and ambitious child, so he resolutely said to his parents: "Let me go out and enter the world by myself. The world is so big, are you afraid that there will be no place for me to live?" Li took a boat-shaped wine glass, a pair of chopsticks, and a small needle knife in a straw sheath, and said goodbye to them.

Master Yicun hung the needle knife on his waist, boarded the wine glass boat, took two chopsticks as oars, and rowed straight to Kyoto.When he arrived in front of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, he kept coming to see the abbot.When the abbot came out to meet him, he was greatly surprised to see him stepping out from under the gatekeeper's clogs!But seeing that although he was small, he was imposing, with extraordinary conversation, the abbot liked him very much, so he kept him and let him do some chores in the hall. One day, a princess came to the temple to burn incense, which attracted a demon and wanted to snatch the princess away.When the demon came, sand and rocks flew, the sky was dark, and the princess' attendants and monks in the temple were all scared and ran away.Just as the monster stretched out its giant claws to the princess, the Yicun mage came out from the corner of the hall!He desperately pulled out the needle knife and stabbed at the demon.Seeing how insignificant Master Yiinch was, the demon laughed loudly and grabbed Master Yiinch and swallowed it in his stomach.Master Yicun rolled to the depths of his heart calmly, raised the needle knife, and stabbed at the demon's internal organs.The pain was so painful that the monster howled wildly and vomited out Master Yiinch, and ran away desperately, forgetting the gavel in his hand.The princess was shocked, and when she reached out to pick up the gavel, she found her savior, Mage Yiinch, standing there majestically.How grateful and loving the princess is to this one-inch-long boy!She leaned down and said shyly and earnestly, "You saved me from the demon, I am yours now, let us be husband and wife!"

Master Yicun blushed with shame, and said, "Princess, I didn't save you because I wanted to marry you... Besides, I am so small, how can I be your husband? You should go back to the palace." Turning around and leaving, when the princess stretched out her hand to keep him, the mallet in her hand fell to the ground. Amid the sound of the magic mallet, every inch of the mage's figure grew several inches.The princess knocked the magic mallet a few times in surprise, and the one-inch mage grew as tall as an ordinary person.The ending of this story, needless to say, is that Master Yicun married the princess and lived happily.

A friend said: This story is both interesting and touching.The one-inch-long little man is a favorite image of children, and this little man is so desperate to fight against demons with his one-inch body. This noble quality of self-sacrifice and self-sacrifice will also arouse children's respect.If it is properly processed with literary handwriting, it will definitely become a very good fairy tale. When I was walking down the mountain while listening to this story, what I was thinking in my heart was not writing fairy tales, but recalling a book I saw before the trip: "The Story of Not Afraid of Ghosts".The stories in that book all reflect the fearless spirit of the ancient people of our country.I think the story of Master One Inch also reflects the fearless spirit of the ancient Japanese people!Judging from the comparison of power in the story, a one-inch mage is only one-thousandth the size of an ordinary person, while a demon is more powerful than an erratic and gloomy ghost.Master Yicun stood up at the last moment, but he was able to use his small size to cleverly penetrate into the demon's heart and stab his viscera with a needle knife. Finally, he defeated the powerful enemy and got the mallet. get happiness.I believe that the Japanese people can learn from this story to strengthen their confidence in the anti-American patriotic struggle.

Back in Tokyo, we stayed at Fukuda's, a very elegant Japanese hotel.When I walked into my room, I looked up and saw a painting hanging in the "between the beds". This painting was a banner with the word "Fu" on it, and the one I bought from Shishan Temple on the bottom A mallet of the same shape! "Between the bed" was originally a kind of shrine, and its status is equal to the altar placed in the nave of our old family. The Japanese always hang a good painting devoutly in "Between the bed", and put a bottle in front of it. flowers.This painting draws the word "Fu" and a wooden mallet together, and enshrines it in the "Between the Bed", which shows that the Japanese people believe that only by defeating demons can they get happiness.As I put down my luggage and took off my coat, I smiled happily.

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