The Tale of Kaguya Hime is based on the collection of traditional Japanese fairy tales "The Tale of Bamboo Tori". It is about Princess Moon who was banished to the mortal world and entrusted to an honest farmer, who was given gold and beautiful clothes, so that the princess could continue to live a noble life.
Saying she was demoted is more like a gift.
But is the princess under the fancy dress really happy? Instead, she felt very distressed.
The farmer who adopted her thinks that the rich clothes and noble life are worthy of her status as a princess. He invited a teacher for her to teach her etiquette and teach him piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. And she also chose the most noble son in the city as her husband.
In Japanese tradition, a woman's greatest honor is to marry a good husband. They painted their teeth black, they wore thick and heavy clothes, they walked with their heads bowed, and they learned all kinds of etiquette and skills, all just to marry well.
In the end, Hui Yao Ji won the emperor's favor, which is already the most honorable thing for a woman.
However, these are not the life Hui Yaoji wants.
Her parents arranged the best for her,
But it wasn't what she wanted most .
She doesn't want to be an accessory to anyone, she only belongs to heaven and earth.
From this, I can't help but think of what crime did she have for being banished to the world?
Maybe just like the fairy tales we usually hear, the goddess Sifan.
She envied the plants, trees, birds and insects in the mortal world, and envied the love in the world. Therefore, God sent her to the mortal world to feel the bondage and pain of being a human being. It is difficult for people to live according to their own wishes, and they can only endure hard, just as everything in the world endures in winter and waits for spring. She doesn't want to be anyone's appendage. She wants to grow freely like a bird and beast, and be accepted by the world.
As mortals, maybe they can't understand the disregard of gods and human beings for material desires, and they can't understand their ordinary life on earth. Ordinary people always want to ascend to immortals, but immortals think of ordinary people. When we live in the mortal world, we always feel that love and hate in this world are entangled and troubled, and we wish to leave as soon as possible and go "up the stairs". The gods love this lively and free life.
Heaven and man have supreme divine power, and it is only a matter of thought to get what they want. It is too easy to get, and you may lose the idea of getting it. Without thoughts, there is no desire, and without desire makes heaven and man more like omniscient and omnipotent.
If you want and get what you want, you will be satisfied and happy.
Only when you can do what you want and do what you want can be called human freedom .
In this way, freedom seems meaningless to the devas who have no desires.
When Hui Yao Ji put on the celestial feather again, her face returned to calm. No sadness, no joy. The joys, sorrows, sorrows, loves and hates she had felt in this world all dissipated one by one.
Such a life of no sorrow, no joy, forgetting love and forgetting love, will be no different in five hundred thousand years. So, as a god, what is there to envy and yearn for?
Hui Yaoji came to the mortal world as a god and felt everything in the mortal world. We will also be inspired by her growth.
Let's take a step back and look at this world, look at our lives.
We may have been like her, we have been arranged and designed our lives. We have either struggled or compromised. But we may not be like her, lying on the ground and feeling the freshness of nature, listening to the singing of birds, grass, fish and insects. It is even more difficult to be like her, bravely take off her fancy clothes one by one, and run to the fields, to the place that your heart yearns for.
My favorite is the image of Hui Yao Ji rushing out of the splendid room, getting rid of the layers of fancy clothes on her body, and running barefoot to her hometown.
She ran wild under the moon and was free.
Even though she was lying on the snow, exhausted, she was still free.
Don't be anyone's accessory,
And don't get attached to this world.
You belong to heaven and earth,
You belong to yourself.
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