The Dragon Boat Festival has passed, the big horse monkey has been hanging?

Can always hang, Dragon Boat Festival hanging monkey and hanging Zhong Kui like the same custom, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits.

Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from Mount Li lecture martial arts back to the palace, malaria, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, stealing Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, catch the little ghost, dig out its eyes, swallowed.

Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my name Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, so the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream was painted as Zhong Kui ghost-catching portraits, the order of the world in the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive away the evil spirits. People in the Dragon Boat Festival hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to quell ghosts and evil spirits, and hope for family peace.

The horror of the folk horse monkey legend:

The name "Ma Huzi" spread to the north, and the north was used to scare people with the "horse monkey" image of mixing, may have become "horse monkey". Jumping up and down the monkey, fierce and long-toothed mandrill, coupled with the legend of Ma Shu Mou, so looking for children to eat, long teeth, love the sound of children crying these characteristics have come. Perhaps this is the truth of the story of the child-catching damselfly monkey.

The monkey has a few signs here, looking for children, long teeth, love the sound of children crying. From other old people heard from the monkey story is similar, long teeth do not necessarily have, but love to look for children to eat, all love children's cries.