What is the legend of Tengu?

It is said that Tengu eats human children and can make women infertile. In ancient times, people would ask fortune tellers to choose auspicious days before the wedding. After selection, the fortune teller must write down the wedding taboo on a piece of red paper. The most important thing is not to offend Tengu. If you violate the "Tiangou", you can't have children. Once upon a time, many infertile women offered "Zhang Xian" to pray for their children, which was called "sending Zhang Xian away". There are no statues. The "Zhang Xian" in the painting is a handsome man in a horn scarf and robe. He looked up at the sky with a slingshot in his hand. It is said that he shot "Tiangou" with a slingshot. So in Beiguan, in addition to fragrant flowers, wine and dishes, there is also a plate of five balls made of raw noodles for him to shoot "Tiangou".

There is another legend in Dantu County, Jiangsu Province:

In ancient times, groups of tengu appeared here. These tengu not only steal farmers' food, but also destroy crops in the fields. One year, the wheat just turned yellow. At noon on the eighth day of April, thousands of tengu suddenly came. They rolled around in the wheat fields and gnawed at the ears of wheat. Time is running out, and there are only straws left in thousands of acres of wheat. Seeing that the rations in their mouths were swallowed by dogs, the farmers were in a state of confusion. At this time, an old man with white hair came. Seeing this scene, he thought of a way to tell the farmer to push the mud dog down the pond at noon the next day to lure the dog to jump. At noon the next day, the farmers pushed the mud dog down the pond according to the old man's instructions. For a moment, "plop, plop"

.................................................................................................................................................................................. in a short time, all the tengu drowned.

On the eighth day of April every year, Baodian, Dantu County, Jiangsu Province will hold the "Dog Festival". On this day, every household pinches two kinds of dogs: one is a dog mixing mud, and the other is a dog kneading dough. When the moon comes out at night, the peasant women push the mud dog down the pond, set off firecrackers for a while, and then go home to steam the dog to eat.

Folk also said that "lunar eclipse" and "solar eclipse" were caused by "Tengu" swallowing the moon and the sun. This dog is very childish and often plays with the moon and the sun. He always likes to swallow the moon and the sun and then spit it out. /kloc-Children under 0/6 are vulnerable to being bitten by dogs when they watch "Tiangou Eat the Moon". In order to save the moon, people should ring the bell to save the moon during the eclipse. It is said that when the bell rings loudly, it will frighten the "Tiangou" to spit out the moon. In ancient times, not only a few "ignorant people" rang the bell to save the moon, but also officials in charge of heaven in the imperial court had to knock bronze wares to save the moon until it recovered.

Wa, Bai, Lisu, Oroqen, Mongolian, Daur, etc. There is a legend that the tengu devoured the moon and the sun, and they all took part in an action to save the moon and the sun. Every Lisu family will get up and call the dog during the eclipse. When watching the solar eclipse, Mongolian flags shouted at the sky or beat iron tools to drive away the tengu that devoured the sun and the moon. The Oroqen people knock on boxes and kowtow. Every Daur family beats copper and iron objects until the moon returns.

Guo Moruo once wrote the poem "Tiangou", including "I am Tiangou! The poem "I swallowed the moon, I swallowed the sky" expresses the determination of Tengu to devour the old feudal things he hates.

China people like to learn aesthetic feeling from nature, take some phenomena in nature as the prototype, carry out artistic processing and artistic imagination, and bring beautiful enjoyment and elegant taste to life. The legend of Tengu is often touched by the scene, and the surrounding natural landscape has the aura of Tengu.