钟馗是民间传说中专打鬼的神。据《逸史》载,唐明皇病重时,一日梦见小鬼盗玉萧,被一个破帽蓝袍的大鬼捉而啖食。明皇惊骇,问之,那青面撩牙的大鬼自称叫“钟馗”,在高祖武德年间应试武举未中,遂触阶而亡,死后立誓扫除天下妖孽。明皇醒后,即令画工吴道子照其言状绘成图像,广传神州,以祈消秽去灾。从此,民间多于端午节挂钟馗像,谓能捉鬼打 Zhong Kui is a demon god of folklore middle school. According to “Yi history” contains, when the Ming emperor was ill, dreamed of a day, a small devil stolen jade Xiao, was robbed of a big ghost hatched blue captive food. Ming Huang horror, asked, that the big face of gigantic ghost called “Zhong Kui”, during the martial arts test martial arts did not, then contact step and died, vowed to sweep the world after the death of evildoers. After Ming Wong woke up, Wu Daozi, an artist, painted an image in his words and spread the image of God to pray for evil. Since then, folk more than the Dragon Boat Festival wall clock like, that can catch ghosts hit