The origin of the sentence "Money makes the mare go"

"Money makes the mare go" is a saying in China. There are two kinds of folk legends about its origin.

A legend originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that the paper made in Cai Lun at that time was of better quality and sold well. Cai Lun's sister-in-law Huiniang told her husband to learn papermaking. But the quality of the paper is too poor to sell. Huiniang thought of a way: she pretended to be dead and lay in the coffin, making her husband cry and burning paper at the same time. When the villagers came to help with the funeral, Huiniang sat up from the coffin and said, "When I went to the underworld, the king of hell asked me to push the mill. At this time, it happened that my husband was burning paper (paper is money from the underworld), and several little devils were vying to help me grind it in order to get my money. The prince asked me to come back. " The villagers believed it, took money to buy Hui's burning paper and sent money to their dead relatives to avoid suffering. Since then, there has been a saying that "money makes the mare go."

A legend that originated in the Southern Dynasties. Liu Song's "Youming Road upstart" reads: A new ghost came to the underworld and didn't know how to get food, so he was thin and hungry. One day, he met a fat ghost, and when he came to him, he realized that he was an old friend of his and had been dead for more than 20 years. So I quickly asked how to eat enough. The old ghost told him that as long as people come to the world and often make troubles and people are worried, those people will burn paper money to send ghosts and gods, and they will also provide delicious chicken, duck and fish to make them worry about not having enough to eat. The new ghost was very happy when he got the knack, so he went to a poor man's house and saw a pot mill in the kitchen, so he squeaked. When the master heard the sound of the kitchen, he came in. When he saw no one, he was rummaging. He said, "The Buddha has pity on my poor family, and the ghost makes the mare go." Later, people condensed this story into "Money makes the mare go".