布老虎民间玩具中有以布虎作枕头或玩物,取其能保护儿童不得恶遇,健康成长之意。布老虎属于我国民间布制玩具的一种,它品种繁多,流传广泛,是一种极具乡土气息的民间工艺品。布老虎之所以成为布制玩具中的代表,是因为它与我国民间风俗有着极为密切的关系。北京布老虎具有京都特色,头大体粗,兽纹及口鼻等皆以梁枋彩画之法,古雅典丽,威猛传神。传说在很久很久以前,在一座风景秀丽的山上长满了桃树,看管这片桃林的是兄弟俩,名叫神荼和郁垒,两人力大无比,技艺高强。为了管好这片桃林,兄弟俩驯服了山上的虎群,命令它们守卫着桃林。通过兄弟俩的辛勤劳动,桃树长得枝繁叶茂,眼看着就要迎来丰收的一年。桃子即将成熟的消息引来了一群恶鬼,它们冲上山来,企图用武力抢夺别人的劳动果实。兄弟俩指挥着群虎与群鬼拼杀在一起,哥哥用桃木棍将鬼击倒,弟弟用苇绳将鬼绑住。打翻一个,捆住一个;捆住一个,虎便吃掉一个!不一会儿就消灭了大部分的恶鬼,剩下的恶鬼见势不妙,狼狈逃去。战斗胜利了,神荼、郁垒的名字传遍了 Cloth tiger folk toys in the cloth tiger as a pillow or plaything, whichever can protect children against bad luck, healthy growth meaning. Cloth tiger is a kind of folk cloth toys in our country. It has a wide range of varieties and spreads widely. It is a kind of folk handicraft with strong local flavor. The reason why a cloth tiger becomes a representative of cloth toys is that it has a very close relationship with the folk customs in our country. Beijing cloth tiger has the characteristics of Kyoto, the first roughly rough, animal pattern and nose and mouth and so Jie Liang Cai painting method, the ancient classic Lai, mighty vivid. Legend has long been a long time ago, in a beautiful mountain covered with peaches, custody of this piece of Taolin is the brothers, called the Tea and Yu Lei, two extremely powerful and skilled. In order to manage this piece of Taolin, the brothers tamed the tigers in the mountains and ordered them to guard Taolin. Through the hard work of the brothers, peach trees grow flourish, seeing is about to usher in a harvest year. The news of the immortality of the peaches attracted a group of evil spirits that rushed to the mountains in an attempt to snatch the fruits of the labor of others by force. The brothers command the group of tigers and group of ghosts together, my brother knocked down with a peach stick, the younger brother tied the ghost with a reed rope. Tipping one, tied to one; tied to a tiger will eat one! Not long after most of the evil spirits have been eliminated, the rest of the ghosts see the situation is not good, panic fled. Fighting victory, Shen Tu, Yu Lei’s name spread over