What do the Northeast people mean by horse monkeys ? Has anyone ever seen a horse monkey?

When scaring children to be obedient in the north, they will always say that the horse monkey is coming, and if they are disobedient, they will be pulled away by the horse monkey.

Drag it away. That's why I still sleep with the quilt tightly covered. So do you know what the Northeast people mean by "horse monkeys"? Has anyone ever seen a horse monkey? Let's talk about it.

1. The origin of the equine monkey

Its ** is generally circulated on the Internet as the Tang Dynasty (Song Dynasty) legend "Kaiheji".

The so-called Emperor Yang of Sui.

The governor of the river is protected by Uncle Ma.

There is no record of this person in the official history), one said that because he was a Hu person, he was called "Mahu". And because of the legend that he likes to eat human flesh, he is used by women to scare disobedient children. "Mahu" was later falsely rumored to be a pronunciation of "sloppy" and "horse monkey".

Another theory is that because Uncle Ma sought fame, "Mahu" was later falsely pronounced as "Mahu", "Sloppy" and "Horse Monkey".

2. No one has ever seen a big horse monkey, but it is actually a legend

The horse monkey is an abstract existence, and the Northeast people who have been frightened by the horse monkey since childhood think of this thing is an inexplicable and invisible horror. The Malaysian monkey is the darkness that fills the entire window outside the window at night, and it is the ghost of the night that hangs behind you in the night road.

3. Until now, there is no definite answer

In fact, if you are talking about the big horse monkey now, you will also find that everyone's description of the big horse monkey is different. So what the hell is a big horse monkey. Is it a horse or a monkey?

Is it the same as it was said? In fact, there are no monkeys in the Northeast, so this big horse monkey should be made up by people, just to say that it has been passed down from generation to generation, just like a custom, scaring every disobedient child.

Postscript: In fact, about the problem of children's scare, children before the age of 3 are in a state of ignorance about many things, his nerves have not yet developed, and the scolding and intimidation have exceeded the child's ability to bear, making the child extremely nervous and fearful, and in severe cases, it will cause mental illness.

Horse monkey actually refers to a type of ape, and I've seen horse monkeys, which are a little bigger than other monkeys, a bit like orangutans.

The horse monkey may be a mandrill, he has a grimace and looks extraordinary. I haven't heard of anyone seeing horse monkeys.

It's a mythical beast, and it's just an animal that people depict, and it's also specially designed to scare children.

It refers to the big bad wolf, in fact, it is generally adults to scare children, which is a very broad word, meaning something terrible.

"Horse monkey" refers to wolves, which are usually used by adults in the Northeast to scare crying children.

Meaning of horse monkey: that is, macaque.

Pinyin: [ mǎ hóu ].

Citation: Zhang Binglin, "New Dialects, Interpretation of Animals": "Mu Monkey: Female Monkey; Female monkey: Mi monkey, known as horse monkey, all of them turn in one tone. See " Macaques ".

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Equine monkey synonyms:1. Macaque [ mí hóu ].

Also called rhesus macaques. Mammal. The hairs are grayish-brown, orange-yellow below the waist, shiny. The face and ears are bare, white when young, and flesh-colored or reddish when they grow. The buttocks have red buttocks. It is produced in southern China and India.

Lu Xun, "The History of the Grave and Man": "In China, the language of evolution has become a common saying, those who like the new rely on their beautiful words, and those who are old are sick with human beings and macaques. ”

2. 猿猿 [ yuán hóu ].

Apes and monkeys. Zhuangzi Qi Theory of Things": "The wood is frightened, and the monkey is so good? ”

<>1. The big horse monkey mentioned in the saying is actually the blue-faced baboon in Africa now, which is also called mandrill in China. Because its face is relatively long, like a horse, it is also called the big horse monkey by the folk. This animal still existed in China before the Tang Dynasty, and was mainly active in the south of the Yangtze River, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan, and then became extinct.

Only a small number of inhabitants are still found in central Africa.

2. The Malaysian monkey often says that it is an imaginary monkey-like animal in order to scare others.

3. The big horse monkey is the macaque, a national second-class protected animal. Due to the vast territory of China and the different pronunciations of local dialects, with the development of time, the pronunciation has changed, and the font has been changed, and it has become the current Malaysian monkey.

The big horse monkey is derogatory, and this term should refer to those who have worse minds than those who love to cheat.