However, because the Japanese occupiers before WWII considered the whole ceremony too bloodthirsty, a monkey image made of grass replaced the live monkey, and thereafter adolescents had to learn how to make the grass monkey.
不過在日據時代，因日本人覺得過於血腥，而改用草編的猴偶替代真猴，從此少年也要學習如何製作草猴。