Today, the editor of chinastory.com brings you the dream tapir: the monster who eats dreams in the classics of mountains and seas. Interested readers can follow the editor to have a look.
Dream eating tapir is a legendary creature that can eat nightmares and leave beautiful dreams for human beings.
Tapirs live on dreams. They are an ancient beast with powerful power. There is no fixed body, and the body shape is illusory. It’s gone.
— classic of mountains and seas
It is recorded in the “mountain and sea Sutra ยท Xishan Sutra”: “the fierce leopard is the tapir leopard, and the tapir leopard and the fierce leopard sound close and turn.” The earliest record of the dream tapir appeared in a book called the six classics of the Tang Dynasty. Although it is not called the dream tapir, it is basically the same as the dream tapir, called “Mochi”.
This God called “Mo Qi” will eat dreams, so there is a saying “Bo Qi eats dreams” in the six classics of the Tang Dynasty. “Boqi eats dreams” is written when the imperial court held a grand sacrificial ceremony in winter. The song boy who was full-time singing at the ceremony had this lyrics in his lyrics. The large and medium-sized ceremony lyrics are also recorded in the book of the later Han Dynasty, so many people say that the God “Mo Qi” is just an erroneous message from everyone.
Later, tapir, a monster, was introduced to Japan. In the Muromachi era of Japan, tapir was regarded as an auspicious beast. Tapirs’ portraits and characters will be made into various objects for decoration or wearing to pray for good luck.
Japan also has the habit of placing a treasure boat with tapir portraits beside the pillow in order to have a good first dream in the new year in the first month. And they believe that even if there is no good dream, if there is a nightmare, it will be eaten by the divine beast Tapir. Having a good dream can indicate that everything is going well and good luck in the new year.
During the Edo period, people used tapir signs to wear or hang at home to express good luck. They believed that this could bring them good luck. Some people will draw tapir images on boxes or pillows, or directly make tapir like pillows, called “tapir pillows”, to pray for a good dream. Disclaimer: the above content originates from the network, and the copyright belongs to the original author. Please inform us if your original copyright is infringed, and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.