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The Principal Parts of the verb “to Hang” are: hang, hung, hung.
Tense: hang
Simple Tense: hung
Past Participle (used with auxiliary verb “to Have”): hung.

Today, I hang an ornament on the tree.
Yesterday, I hung four more ornaments.
I have always hung most of the ornaments on the tree at Christmas.

“Hang” is an irregular verb. It does NOT take the ending “-ed” in most cases.

Here are three more examples from the site http://www.k12reader.com/term/irregular-verbs/:
Hang your hat here.
John hung his hat on the hat tree.
Many have hung from the gallows of the Old West.

It is correct to say:
I hung up the phone.
She hung the laundry out to dry.
Mark’s colleagues at work hung him out to dry on the day of his big presentation.

” Hang” as used above is a transitive verb — it takes a Direct Object.
You have to hang something (usually somewhere): hang up the phone, hang the laundry, hang your coat up on a hook, e.g.

Intransitive uses of “hang” include:
to hang out with a friend
to get hung up over something
[Slang or colloquial, but still correct.]

” Hanged ” is a special case, as in to be Hanged :
He was hanged by the neck until dead.
He hanged himself in his cell.

Check out this page:https://www.englishrules.com/writing/2005/hanged-or-hung/
which states the following:

“Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging … In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child’s picture above my desk.”

“Pictures can be hung, but people are always hanged. It’s an odd quirk of the English language.”

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