The last monkey fool, a true edge story.

The little hairy monkey comes out of Sichuan and comes out of Emei Mountain in Sichuan.

The mountains are big, the water is wide, the trees are big and without edges, and they are beautiful.

The front mountain was driven to the back mountain, and the little monkey was driven down the mountain.

Drive down the mountain to take Henan to Xinye County, Henan Province.

Teach the station first, then the station, and teach it to run on the mountain.

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Recently, I finished reading a book by photographer Ma's The Last Monkey-Playing Man, which recorded the development of the folk art of monkey-playing in China and the real living conditions of a group of folk artists who made a living by monkey-playing, and recorded a disappearing folk China truly, profoundly and vividly.

In Xinye County, Luoyang, Henan Province, there are a group of monkey-playing people who mainly gather in villages and towns. Xinye's monkey playing art has been circulating for many years. Many Han bricks were unearthed in the Han tombs found in this village, on which scenes of people playing with monkeys were carved.

The protagonist in front of the camera of the author is Yang Lingui, who is playing monkey.

There's another monkey-juggler, Zhang Zhizhong. This shot is 10 year.

These monkey-jugglers go out to play monkeys to subsidize their families when the agriculture is not busy. Because they can't afford to take the passenger train, they can't get on the bus with the monkeys, so they play hide-and-seek with the railway police. Usually, after dark, they grab their own trains one by one and run here and there.

Monkey-playing people usually go to warm Guangdong, Sichuan and Guangxi in winter, and even transit Myanmar to play monkeys, and then travel to relatively cool Northeast China, Inner Mongolia and Tibet in summer.

They often have to endure the pain for several days in naked train carriages. In addition to starving, they have to endure the cold of MINUS ten degrees Celsius in winter and the high temperature of forty or fifty degrees Celsius in summer. It takes seven days and seven nights when the journey is long, and three days and three nights when the journey is short. Sit in the carriage, drink tap water when thirsty, and chew a steamed bread brought from home when hungry.

Monkeys eat what people eat.

There are many monkey shows in Xinye, most of which are five or six people.

The "shift supervisor" is responsible for the overall situation, the "troublemaker" is responsible for playing tricks on monkeys, the "hammer" is responsible for collecting money, and the "chooser" is responsible for cooking at home. Home here refers to a temporary residence, usually an abandoned house or a tent in the open space. )

Ma Hongjie, the author, followed them to pick up the train and recorded everything about monkey tricks.

This book describes all the blood and tears of the train.

Monkeys eat what people eat. Go out to play tricks on monkeys, go back to your place to eat, and the monkeys will definitely eat first. This is a rule handed down by our ancestors, which is described in the article.

According to their Jianghu rules, the maximum charge for watching a monkey show is two yuan per person. If the guests pay more, they have to give someone else change.

There is a counterfeit money from 50 yuan in the money collected when playing monkey tricks. Lao Yang was in a bad mood, so she put a bowl of rice on the edge of the shack to eat. Dagong monkey picked up a stone and threw it into the pot, knocking over the whole pot of food-every day when he came back for dinner, the monkey had to eat the first bowl, which was a rule handed down from his ancestors. Lao Yang forgot this day.

There is a picture of a monkey juggler whipping a monkey. The whip is very loud. A passerby stood up and accused the monkey artist of abusing animals and wanted to expel them.

In the next picture, the monkey looks in a hurry. He picked up a brick, threw it at Lao Yang, the monkey-juggler, and then fought back with a knife and a stick from the ground, forcing Lao Yang to run around. The onlookers began to applaud and put stones and fruits in the monkey's hands.

After work, Lao Yang said it was a * * * performance between him and the monkey. When the whip rings, you can't hit the monkey, or it will break. What will you eat? This play has a name, called "Put Down Your Whip".

At the end of the book, there are two small chapters: "Monkey Fool who was cheated by 654.38+0.8 million" and "The Crime of Monkey Fool".

Tells a heartbreaking story, which is thought-provoking and thought-provoking.