For children, crying is the best way to express their inner dissatisfaction, grievances, gain sympathy and achieve their goals. When parents are tired of coping with this old trick for thousands of years, under the crystallization of the wisdom of working people, a "crying" terminator is finally produced, that is, the legend of the devil. Legend has it that the mandrill ghost will find the child's cry and come to your house, and then take it away and swallow it in the middle of the night. Whether this story is true or not, or not, we won't tell it, but his practical performance, vividly described under the dim light, the dense trees outside the window and the conspiracy of his parents, has really become a trick up his sleeve.

the mandrill ghost, a monster who lives in the jungle of Shan Ye and in the evil wind, but relies on the place where village lights gather. In the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Hongdao wrote in his poem "Accidental Accomplishment in the Hidden Road":

Ten words that are easy to understand make this guy who has been occupying the first exposure of folk ghosts and legends even more mysterious.

in many places, mandrill ghosts are generally called mandrill directly. I remember that when I was in junior high school, the Chinese teacher with glasses added a sentence after telling us several stories about mandrills in nearby villages. "Mandrills are actually a primate similar to monkeys, and the zoo teacher in the provincial capital has seen them, so everyone doesn't have to worry." At that age, naturally, I would not question what the teacher said, so everyone went home with peace of mind to show off their new knowledge with the parents who had been skeptical for most of their lives in the story of mandrill. It was only later that I found out that my childhood was shaken by the teacher. The "monkey" with the face form and the ghost baboon living in Africa simply stole the famous brand name "Mandrill", which has nothing to do with the Mandrill that we have heard from mouth to mouth. So don't confuse Gui Li and likui jy in the future.

It is mentioned in The Classic of Mountains and Seas,

This should be the earliest description of Mandrill, but this article does not specify that this giant is Mandrill, but it should be one of the earliest anecdotes based on the related descriptions in folklore. Jin Ge Hong's "Bao Pu Zi Deng She" records:

This is the first time that the term "Mandrill" has been defined, and the literary image of "Mandrill is shaped like a child with one foot backward" has been defined. Why is it a literary image? Because in the eyes of the working people, this Shan Ye Grinch must be a feature of infinite strength, burliness, bravery and ferocious terror. It is absolutely impossible to be "shaped like a child, with only one foot", but it is only a "anti-foot" item, which has been adopted by many local folklore. Therefore, in rigorous literary works, mandrill is always a half-dead character, while the folks describe it as fierce as they are, lest it be enough to shock the mountain Lin Baili.

now that we have specific image characteristics, let's choose one or two stories from a variety of stories to tell. Because Mandrill has been famous for a long time, in that era of disorderly force and strange gods, working people always like to put all kinds of anecdotes on Mandrill for reasons of more talk and low social consciousness, such as which family disappeared and was arrested when they entered the mountain, which family was taken away for one night and brought back with a serious illness, and which family of cattle, sheep and livestock decreased continuously. Some places even confuse Mandrill with Nian Beast, the first leading actor on New Year's Eve, and then there are all kinds of mountain gods, and Master Shan has also come out in disorder, but it also shows that there are too many legends about Mandrill. If I want to finish one by one, I'm afraid I'm old, too. In Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, it is recorded that:

Obviously, Mr. Liaozhai still classified the mandrill as a kind of fierce cannibal Shan Ye Grinch. In Mindong area, there is such a legend of a mandrill:

The shape of a mandrill is like a villain, with a rebellious foot, extremely fast speed and naughty stubbornness. Chai Fu cut wood, and the knife lying on the ground disappeared in a short time. At this time, Chai Fu would yell at Shan Ye for his mother. It turns out that mandrill is the most filial, and he will quickly give you the knife if he can't bear the injustice of his mother. As long as you look around carefully, you will find the knife that was returned by mandrill.

The mandrill here has only become a mischievous but harmless villain. However, no matter what the positioning and legend of good and evil of Mandrill is, it reflects that the people in the mountainous areas in the old society classified the unexplained things into ghosts.

As a common people, Mandrill bears almost all the blame for the legend of Shan Ye. It is meaningless to consider and investigate whether there is this animal or not. What we know is that mandrills with different identities have an explanation, relying on the love and awe of the working people in Dashan. It is this love that makes the story on the mountain more fully show all kinds of grievances and enmities about the mountain forest, making the story about it more colorful and full. It is precisely because of this awe that there are all kinds of legends and rumors, which make the mountains full of mystery and unpredictability. People want to untie this veil but have all kinds of ambivalence.