Japan’s first onmyoji, Haruaki Abe, is actually a lie

In the Edo period of Japan, there was a saying: You don’t know the source Yoshitsune, but you know Seimeiko. The source Yoshitsune here is a tragic hero in Japan. According to his eight-ship jumping anecdote, even a three-year-old child can sing softly. It can be said that no one knows that no one knows that

is better than him. , Is that Abe Haruta knew that he had many titles, some of which originated from official positions, some from legends, and the most famous of them was the title of Japan’s No. 1 Onmyoji, but this is actually a lie.

[True and False Abe Seimei]

If you look closely at Abe Seimei’s true history, the truth is that it is a late bloomer, and it has become a magical club for trendy people because of the times.

It was the Heian era in Japan. On the surface, Kyushu’s four islands were singing and dancing, and there were no wars and disputes. However, the court was chaotic, the various forces secretly fought, and the land was full of dirty rights transactions. It was difficult for the people to live and work in peace.

At the same time, natural disasters occur frequently, with major earthquakes and floods one after another. Faced with this situation, the people and nobles all walked towards the road of asking ghosts and gods to solve their doubts. Taking this general trend, the feng shui of the onmyoji industry has risen, and Haruaki Abe also made great efforts in his middle age, becoming Japan's first onmyoji in one fell swoop, and died at the age of 85.

For himself, his life is over here, but for us, the story of the first onmyoji has just begun. The story of

Abe Seimei originated from the compilation of his descendants and the addition of folklore. Through these channels, he was gradually deified and became a famous literary figure in Japan, and this is also the best known Abe Haruaki. This image mainly consists of two parts. One is the image of a hybrid of humans and monsters extracted around the descendants of the white fox; the second is the image of his genius onmyoji.

First, let's start with the white fox.

[The descendant of the demon fox who can reverse Yin and Yang]

According to legend, Haruaki Abe was born by a white fox and a human, which gave him the blood of a monster and laid the groundwork for his ability to reverse Yin and Yang. Make it easier for people in the old age to be convinced. But in modern times, this feature has become the focus of many cultural products.

Take the anime "The Grandson of the Slick Ghost" as an example, in the play Seimei Abe is called 鵺. Because of the mixed blood of humans and monsters, he controlled the whole of Japan in the Heian era. In the daytime, he is a trusted onmyoji master who can control the situation in the world; and in the dark night, he plays a demon side, commanding the demons and taking charge. The king of the night.

But because his mother Yuyi fox was killed by humans, he began to deny the value of human beings, but because he was too fascinated by the rules of yin and yang he created, he has not taken the final step.

Until the end of his life, Abe Seimei decided to eliminate humans and build a world of monsters in the dark. However, due to physical exhaustion, he can only hope for reincarnation. It wasn't until a thousand years later that he successfully came into the world and started a battle with the protagonist of "Slicker's Grandson".

This anime is not a special case. In many Japanese cultural products, it has been written around its choice of shemales to interpret the new Abe Seimei.

[Genius Onmyoji]

is different from "The Grandson of the Slippery Ghost". In another anime "The Shaman King", the author stripped Abeharu as an onmyoji who will only be tomorrow, thus creating a brand new image.

His name is Ma Canghao. Although he is not the protagonist, he is the real "shaman king". His strength is bottomless, he can deal with the peak state of the protagonist group with his own strength, and can win, even at the end of the work, the author doesn't know how to finish it, and can only end it hastily by means of influence.

Asakura is so tough because he is the reincarnation of the first onmyoji in the Heian period. Before he was reincarnated, he was born to be able to understand the words of ghosts and gods and to see through people's hearts. This is a gift and a curse. These abilities made him a genius of Yin-Yang Dao, and at the same time, they also made him see people's hearts too thoroughly.

Because he has seen too many people’s selfish desires, he gradually became disgusted with human beings, even disgusted, and finally completelyHe denied humanity and decided to become the psychic king, thus creating a world with only psychics. Because for him, only those who can see the nether things are pure human beings with recognized value.

This may be the sorrow of the genius Onmyoji, who climbed to the top by ability, but was also bound by ability.

[Is Abe Seimei a man or a woman? 】Z2z

In addition to animation, the image of Seime Abe is also indispensable in the game, but the strange thing is that different works always have different opinions on its gender.

For example, in the mobile game "A Million King Arthur", Abe Seimei appears as a loli. Its full name in the game is "Diffusion Abe Haruaki". Because it was born based on the white fox "Kuye", it is not a male but a female. Although she looks like a little girl with fox ears, she is extremely confident and narcissistic.

In the mobile game "Goddess of Kaiyuan", Abe Haruaki is a male image. Here he is the Onmyoji from the Kaiyuan Islands in the East and the master of Seimei Shrine. He lives in the mysterious transition in the East. He once blocked the invasion of evil forces with the enchantment he set up, and he looks like an ideal Onmyoji. The difference

is actually the inevitable reconstruction of literary image. After all, when you look closely, Abe's story is a lie built around legends.

But we need something like this. Life needs real tempering, and it also needs fictional stories. As for whether it is a lie, who cares? Fun is enough.