Ghost Story review: “The Soul of the Great Bell” by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn

The beginning of the story is a description of the clock called Ta - chun sz ', "The Big Bell Tower". The bell rang quietly, "KO - NGAI!" Shake the dragon with the elevated slope of the green roof. Porcelain monsters trembled in their habitat, and the hundred little bells above the pagoda trembled. After that, it was a woman crying almost as "Hi Eye!"

About 500 years ago, in August, the son of Heaven, Ryu Ming, Ming Dynasty or Ming Dynasty ordered precious official public safety Yu, but he should have ringtones of that size, You may hear it. It must be made of brass, gold and silver. Their first two attempts failed. Emperor decides to do a better job for the third time, his head will roll, very literally

This is a tragic story about love and sacrifice, love for the daughter to the father. This is a story of the 19th century, it may be thought that today is too frustrating, but there is a nice thing to shock the readers.

Lafcadio Hearn, born in the Greek archipelago, is an Irish and Greek parents, but most of his adult life has been spent in Japan, becoming a Japanese citizen.

When Lafcadio Hearn got into the coast of Japan in 1890, he began to write a ghost story. In the mission of Harper Magazine, Hearn was blamed for exploring and interpreting this unknown country to an avid American. His answer is that the spirit of writing Japan should surprise everyone; a horrible and incredible preference for this in Hearn. However, previous stay in New Orleans provided an ore for his imagination and in his new house he hit a mother's house. Japan is the most ghastly country on Earth.

As you can imagine, Lafcadio Hearn is not in Japanese. From 1850 to 1904, he was not a modern day life. But he is known for writing articles about Japan, especially his Japanese folklore and ghost story. You can learn much about culture through its folklore and you can learn more about what it worries about through its ghost stories. In particular, it shows enough the supernatural tradition popular in Japan. "The seventh day." The slogan of the movie opened a J - horror fashion trend in Hollywood. Of course, this novel is an original novel that became the original of a Japanese movie, and it is a remake of Hollywood later starring Naomi Watts. The premise of this novel is developed around the modern urban legend. Video tapes will cause viewers to die after one week unless specific actions are completed.

Kuidan (Kaidan, literally "Ghost Story") is Masaki Kobayashi (photographed in 1964 and released in January 1965) of Japanese anthology horror film in 1965. It is based on the story of Japanese folklore collected by Lafcadio Hearn, mainly Qwidan: the story and research of miraculous things, and it was named after that. This film is made up of four independent unrelated stories. Quidan is an ancient transliteration of Kaitan, which means "ghost story". He was awarded the Jury Special Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1965 and was nominated for the Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Award.

Lafcadio Hearn gathered a ghost story, sliced ​​story and exotic observations at his Kwaidan Stories and Studies of Strange Things. His efforts to convey these stories back to the world society shows his passion and deep understanding of why "ghosts" are essential to mankind. Touching a person's soul, you must know everything everyone can feel through the words; and you must know that you must have a "ghost" to you .