Children also need pressure, they don't understand anything, their parents are busy, and reasoning is very laborious. Therefore, the "old cat monkey" has become the most straightforward child teacher. Anyway, when I wasn't sleeping at night when I was a child, crying or crazy, I would hear "the old cat monkey who doesn't sleep will be recruited." After listening to the sentence, I didn't feel any fear at all. Because home gave me an unparalleled sense of security, I imagined a tired monster with a flower-faced werewolf outside, eavesdropping at the door. Under the quiet starry sky, it will wander around the alley from time to time, and from time to time crouch on the roof of whose house to look into the distance. Thinking about it, I fell asleep.
To be honest, "Old Cat Monkey" wasn't my childhood nightmare, I wasn't afraid of it at all, and the reason I stopped crying was to match a boy monster show. Now think about it at that time, it was really warm, the family house was not big, the family was crowded together. Lying in bed with the lights turned off, my dad would shake it with an empty wine bottle filled with fireflies. In a flash, the fireflies in the bottle lit up. I was so excited, so happy, I didn't like to sleep. At this time, my father took me into the imagination of the old cat monkey again, and I was quiet again. I even expected that the next day, which unpleasant child would be caught by the old cat monkey. But until school, no child was taken away by the old cat monkey.
Recently I checked it, and the Internet said that the old cat monkey is a line that scares children in Zhengzhou, Shangqiu, Huaibei, Suzhou, Jiangsu, Xuzhou, Southwest Shandong and other places in Henan. In fact, it is not accurate, because many netizens from all over the country in the post said that they also have old cats and monkeys there. There is also a northeast folk theme of the network movie is also called "Old Cat Monkey", I have not seen it, but I know about this matter. Regarding the appearance of the old cat monkey, I remembered that "red nose and green eyes" forgot that it was "green nose red eyes". Look up on the Internet, there are still a lot of words.
1. Children's song in the Central Plains: "Red eyes and green nose, four hairy hooves, walking and crackling, to eat live children";
2, legend has it that the old cat is a big monster with a cat's head monkey body of more than two meters tall, with green eyes with a lantern, and likes to catch human children at night as food;
3, an unknown animal, extremely strong athletic ability like a human and like a monkey;
4, the old cat monkey is actually a harmonic sound of a person's name.
The fourth statement is the most official interpretation, but it does not agree.
1. When Yuan Shikai ascended the throne, the local officials in Henan had a small official with the surname Ma, who was thin like a monkey, who did many evil deeds and did all the bad things, so the local residents called him a cat monkey. Describe him as vicious as a wolf. Those who have children in the family cry at night, or do not obey, the adults say, to obey, otherwise they will be led by cats and monkeys, so the children will not make trouble;
2. Tang Dynasty Zhang Que's saying that the prototype of "Old Cat Monkey" is actually Ma Qiu, a general of Zhao after the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, who was known as "Ma Hu" because he was a Hu person. Its people are sinister and vicious, killing people without blinking, so children hear their names and dare not come out;
3. Tang Dynasty Yanshi ancient saying: Mahu name Mahu, the word Shumou. During the Reign of the Sui Dynasty, he served as the general of Yuntun, and this person was also a fierce god and evil figure. Emperor Jue ordered him to dredge the Yellow River into the Bian River so that his dragon boat could pass through, and he would be blessed. His method of testing the quality of the dredging of the river is very special, it is to use the iron foot wooden goose to test the shallowness and depth of the dredged river, but the iron foot wooden goose can not pass, so that the person who dredged the river is "disloyal" as the crime, and kills it in groups and stuffs it under the ice, so that everyone is afraid;
4. The Legendary Novel of the Song Dynasty "Kaihe Ji" says: During the digging of the canal, Ma Shumou fell ill, and Lang Zhong said that he needed mutton as a medicine guide. At that time, the canal and just passed through the tao family ancestral tomb, Tao Luo'er had three brothers, specializing in stealing chickens and dogs for a living. I heard that Uncle Ma mou loves to eat mutton, so they steamed a two- or three-year-old child instead of lamb and gave it to Uncle Ma to eat, which caused Uncle Ma to become addicted, so that when he opened the river, he bypassed the ancestral grave. The three Tao brothers are even more unscrupulous, stealing children everywhere every day. Ma Shumou's name is similar to "Ma Hu", and was later falsely rumored to be "cat monkey".
In fact, there are many statements that can be found, but the general meaning is the same, that is, the harmonic sound of the person's name. For the harmonic statement, I always feel that this is like a child, holding a junior high school physics test paper that did not score full marks, telling a seventy- or eighty-year-old man about the world. Personally, I feel that there are many loopholes in this regard. The first reason is that these are mostly recorded. From "Chao Ye You Zai", from the "Sui Testament", or from the "Sui Emperor Kaihe Chronicle". It can be seen from the records that the old cat monkey began to spread since ancient times. During the period when the old cat and monkey spread, there were very few readers, and the people did not even know the title of the book. Let's say that the "Sui Dynasty Emperor Kaihe Record", the author marked the Song Dynasty anonymous. What does that mean? That is to say, the author does not know who it is. How did the contents of the book spread and spread throughout the country?
The second reason is that the deeds of the archetypal characters of the old cat and monkey could not have become news events to spread, could the people understand the newspaper at that time? There are no newspapers for sale. There were no conditions for dissemination, and their news at that time was relatively local. For example, the old locust tree in the township bleeds as soon as it is cut, and the old man of the neighboring village walks around the cemetery all night and does not come out. The events in Yunnan are unknown in the northeast, and the story of Shaanxi is not heard in Henan. The only one who can spread the incident into the lives of ordinary people is Mr. Storyteller, who reviews "Old Cat Monkey". But no... There is "Fengshen Yanyi" and "Nuwa Patching Heaven", but there is no old cat monkey. So the popular old cat Mr. Monkey, lost halfway? This statement is contradictory. However, the story of the old locust tree cutting down the bleeding, or the story of a night in the cemetery, it seems that there are many places to appear. For example, I have heard friends in Sichuan talk about using a chicken at funerals, and friends in northeast China have also said that funeral chickens lead the way. You see, one side feeds the other, and the difference between the patriarchal phase and the language is so large, but the same objects appear and are used in the same place. Was the ancient Northeasterners who ran to Sichuan to learn? Or did the Sichuan people run to the northeast to study? Or to say that it is to promote the past step by step, with so many provinces, so many cities, so many villages, so many people, and so many different customs in between. There are many differences in the way parents are called. Is it really spread in the past? Therefore, I personally think that there is such a thing that supports the "cultural popularization" of "old cat monkeys" for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Personally, I believe in the most direct understanding, the old people say that the old cat monkey, in fact, refers to the ghost, is the goblin. So why not just say that the goblins are coming? Maybe it's because the old cat monkey is a kind of monster in their hearts, but in fact, the old cat monkey is not a goblin. The old cat monkey has eaten children, and everyone generally thinks that goblins eat people. So I slowly put the old cat monkey in the color of a goblin. Coupled with the fact that there is a monkey word after the name of the old cat monkey, it proves that its appearance has some monkey characteristics. Monkeys look like people, and it is difficult to say anything about it, and it is not surprising that they are goblins on the mountain. The bleeding of the old locust tree can be explained scientifically, but is it not the same in the early days that the locust tree is considered to be sperm? The reasoning is the same. What's more, this thing eats children, it is more like a goblin. In the past, animals did not have any scientific names, and animals did not have any scientific names in the past, such as earth leopards, large long worms, big horse monkeys, and old cat monkeys. No, it comes naturally.
I went through the academic and folk origins of the old cat monkey, and I really saw a saying about seeing the old cat monkey. No, not an old cat monkey, it's a kitten monkey. Although the story is not long, but the words are similar, what is it like? There is a folk look. Roughly speaking, it means that this grandmother who has seen a kitten monkey, when she was a teenager, once in the middle of a night, it rained heavily, thunder and flash, she suddenly found two bright lights on the bedside table, the Forest people, scared and shouted, the parents got up and lit the oil lamp, and found a small cat monkey sitting on the cabinet, bigger than the monkey, with a long hair. All the while shaking, a helpless face. Her father had seen this animal, the big one stood up a meter tall, the strength was great, once the little cat monkey died or was lost, liked to steal babies and children at night, did not eat, when his own kitten monkey raised, living inside the tomb. The grandmother, his father, was not afraid of the kitten monkey, and said to the grandmother when he was a child, he must have committed a no-rule, and the lightning flash was splitting it, and it had come to take refuge. Watching it shake coldly, I hurriedly found a small thin cotton jacket for a one- or two-year-old child to put on. Then the rain stopped, the thunder and lightning passed, and her father opened the door to the kitten monkey and said let's go! Your mother was looking for you, and it left.
This friend's analysis also has certain reference value. He said that before liberation, the "old cat monkeys", "leather spirits" and "hairy people" should all be animals, and their disappearance had something to do with badger pigs, and even more related to the ancient tombs that were picked up and disappeared during the Cultural Revolution. Badger pigs are the nemesis of "leather spirits" and "cat monkeys", and they all like to live in ancient tombs and mountain caves. The old cat monkey can't do badger pigs, the little cat monkey has become a plate of Chinese food, and the cat monkey is also called a hairy man, similar to an ape. Once the young son is lost, the sorrow is extremely urgent, and they will go into the village at night to steal the child, so the adults are threatening the dolls who love to cry and make trouble, don't cry, the old cat monkey is coming!
This is the most straightforward version of the old cat monkey that I find, and sometimes a problem is overly complicated. Cloaked in literature, cloaked in religion and science. When the problem is too complicated, it seems that the ancestors of mankind for thousands of years are very ignorant. A topic that has been passed down for thousands of years, after putting on these coats, it becomes nothing like this when it is spoken, just a harmonic sound. Whatever you say is gone. I would say it again, it feels like a child, holding a junior high school physics exam paper that did not score full marks, telling an old man in his seventies and eighties about the world. In fact, many times, the truth is often in the folk.