"Sackbeard" is a person's nickname. This person's surname was Ma Ming Shumou, who was a general in front of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang, and because he grew a yellow and scorched beard, this person was called "Ma Beard".
So why scare children with this "sack", because there is a story in it.
We know that during the reign of the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang, he created a major project that attracted worldwide attention, that is, the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal for 3,000 miles.
And Ma Shumou was the official in charge of opening the Grand Canal at that time, and he had a name, called the Canal Inspector.
This canal superintendent is a fat man, the project is huge, and the cost of gold and silver is innumerable. As the saying goes, after three points of oil, Uncle Ma conspired to embezzle the project funds.
But the boy was insatiably greedy and not satisfied. He embezzled huge amounts of project funds, did not count, held his own power, and cleverly set up a name, and expropriated violently. Everywhere he went, the ground was eager to scrape off three feet.
On this day, the project to open the Grand Canal was repaired to the boundary of Caozhou.
Twenty miles northwest of caozhou city, there is a large tomb, which is the ancestral tomb of the family of Meng Hai, the guardian of Caozhou Town. Originally, the river opening project could spare the grave, but this Uncle Ma plotted to extort Meng Haigong, and instead of forcing Meng Hai to give out 200,000 taels of silver, he would dig up the grave and dig the grave.
This Meng Haigong was a clean official, and for a moment and a half, he really couldn't come up with so much silver. Uncle Ma didn't care about this, this boy gave an order, and really cut the tomb of the Meng family ancestors.
This can make Meng Haigong angry. As the saying goes, the clay man still has three points of anger, Meng Haigong, as the guardian of Caozhou Town, actually watched his family's ancestral grave being planed, how could he give up? Later, Meng Haigong rebelled against the Sui and established himself as the "King of Song Yi", a large part of which was because of this Uncle Ma's conspiracy.
It may also be that Uncle Ma mou did this too immoral, and God let him suffer from a lack of morality.
Since Ma Shumou ordered the planing of the Meng family's ancestral tomb, he had a strange disease, what he ate was not fragrant, what he ate was tasteless, and what mountain treasures and sea tasted in his mouth were like chewing wax.
He was furious about this and blamed the cook who cooked the kitchen, and several cooks lost their lives.
On this day, it was the turn of a cook surnamed Wang to cook for him, and The wang cook made him more than a dozen dishes with fear, none of which suited his taste. Uncle Ma scolded the king cook a dog bloody head, and also issued a final warning, the next meal can not make a tasteful meal, do not want to live.
In this way, the king cook is afraid, each dish himself is sprinkled with a lot of salt, this ma daren is still stunned to say that it is tasteless, is this not obviously wanting his own head?
Wang Cookzi was helpless and decided to take revenge on Ma Shumou before his death. Your surname Ma wants to kill me, and I can't make you feel better.
He also did not know where to find a dead child, so he cut two pieces of the dead child's flesh and cooked it for Uncle Ma to eat. He did this purely to disgust Uncle Ma and to show the evil in his heart before he died.
After Uncle Ma Mou ate it, he was full of praise, it was simply a delicacy that he had never enjoyed before, and he rewarded The King Cook.
After this meal, Ma Shumou embarked on the road of eating human flesh. At first, there were still some scruples, afraid that others would know, but later it was simply clear that the local officials everywhere they went had to dedicate their children for the enjoyment of Lord Ma.
As soon as this news spread, the common people were disturbed, and when they heard that the "sack beard" who ate children was coming, the children were frightened and did not dare to cry.
So what happened to this heinous bearded man?
It is said that on this day, Ma Shumou and his cadres came to the Xiangzhou territory.
The xiangzhou town guard was called Gao Tansheng, this person had a good character, as soon as he heard that the man-eating ma beard had come, Gao Tan made up his mind in the sacred heart: I can't control your ma beard eating people elsewhere, and in my Xiangzhou territory, you will never be allowed to act recklessly.
Sure enough, Uncle Ma sent someone to ask Gao Tansheng for a child, but Gao Tansheng categorically refused. Not only refused, but the gate of Xiangzhou City was closed, and Ma Shumou and others were simply not allowed to enter.
Uncle Ma was furious and ordered his men to start attacking Xiangzhou City.
In a big battle outside Xiangzhou City, Gao Tansheng was not the opponent of Ma Shumou, and at a critical moment, a group of people and horses came.
The first person was tall, with a wide waist, a yellow wind beast in the sunset under his crotch, and a large cooked copper stick in his hand, it was the lord of the golden-topped Taihang Mountain who had come to join Gao Tansheng, the purple-faced Heavenly King.
Xiong Kuohai heard Gao Tansheng say that this Uncle Ma liked to eat children, and he couldn't help but explode his liver and lungs, crush his teeth in his mouth, and said in his heart, Isn't this the devil, how can Xiong Kuohai allow such a person to live in the world?
So Xiong Kuohai took the place of Gao Tansheng and fought Ma Shumou.
How could this Uncle Ma go to the opponent of the Purple-Faced Heavenly King Xiongkuohai, the two of them fought less than ten times, and they were hit on the head by a stick from Xiongkuohai. Straight hit ten thousand peach blossoms. This evil demon didn't even hum and whimpered about it.
There is also a theory about the death of Ma Shumou.
Because uncle Ma's plot to eat children was too bad, this matter somehow reached the ears of Yang Guang, the Sui Emperor.
When Yang Guang heard this, he was furious and said in his heart that this had been repaid, and that the officials of my grand and great Sui Dynasty had actually sat down on such evil deeds, and it was not too much to slash a thousand swords.
Therefore, Yang Guang ordered that Uncle Ma be executed.
Anyway, no matter what kind of statement, in short, this "sack beard" did not end well.