What is the custom of worshipping rabbits in Mid-Autumn Festival?

Male prostitutes are the mascots of old Beijing. Since the Ming Dynasty, old Beijingers have had the custom of inviting and seeing off rabbits in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which means peace and good luck.

Grandpa Rabbit is the representative of Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Beijing. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can see mud rabbit stalls on the streets of Beijing. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing, putting a statue of a rabbit at home is really an atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so rabbits are essential items for Beijingers to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"Gilabit Workshop" is the designated workshop of Dongyue Temple Male Prostitute Mountain. As the first workshop of Beijing Rabbit Master, it produces tens of thousands of statues of male prostitutes every year. Although this folk handicraft is not as popular as before, there are still some young people and foreign tourists who are very interested in this folk flavor.

Moral:

Sitting like a rabbit is homophonic with auspiciousness, which means good luck.

Sitting on a tiger rabbit, the tiger is the king and commander-in-chief of all animals, which means a prosperous career and extensive contacts.

Kirin rabbit, spread because of the allusions of Kirin spitting books, symbolizes extensive knowledge and academic success.

Sitting on the gourd rabbit, because the gourd is homophonic with Fulu, it symbolizes both Fulu and Fulu.

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The legend of the rabbit:

Grandpa rabbit is made of mud. Wearing armor on his head, putting flags on his back, covering his face with gold mud, painting all over his body, sitting or standing, pounding or riding animals with a pestle, and supporting himself with two big ears.

Legend has it that one year, there was a plague in Beijing, and it was useless to ask a doctor to take medicine. Chang 'e in the moon palace sent a jade rabbit down to earth to eliminate the plague. Jade rabbit asks for nothing in return, but clothes, constantly changing the figure of men and women and saving more lives.

In order to reward her luck and happiness, people created various jade rabbit images with clay sculptures. And every family should worship it and affectionately call it "male prostitute" and "grandma rabbit"

Nowadays, father rabbit has become a rarity. It can also be seen occasionally in the handicraft shops of Changdian, Houhai and a few shopping malls. In some people's homes in Beijing, there is still the custom of showing off and worshipping rabbits in the New Year. There are some rabbit toys of various shapes in Dongyue Temple Beijing Folk Museum.

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