What did it mean to be called Grandpa Rabbit in ancient times?

Rabbits (folklore) generally refer to male prostitutes (a popular children's toy in Beijing).

Male prostitute is a local traditional handicraft in Beijing, which belongs to children's toys that should be in season during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, Beijingers worship "male prostitutes". This custom originated in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, "male prostitutes" were transformed into children's Mid-Autumn Festival toys. Later, some people shaped the "male prostitute" into a warrior wearing a golden helmet and shining armor. Some rode lions and elephants, some carried paper flags or umbrellas on their backs, or sat or stood, which was pleasing to the eye. ?

According to the statement that there is a Jade Rabbit of Chang 'e in the Moon Palace, the Jade Rabbit is further artistically personified and even deified, and made into various forms of male prostitutes with mud. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Moon Palace Jade Rabbit gradually broke away from the attachment of the moon worship, and formed an independent image in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon, and gradually enriched it. Male prostitutes have both sacred and secular characteristics, and they have both sacrificial and recreational functions. Nowadays, male prostitutes have become one of the most representative intangible cultural heritages in Beijing.

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1, Rabbit Ye Er comes from Yutu to help the world. On August 15 of a certain year, when people were in plague and poverty, they sent food to people and fire to the snow on the earth.

2. Father Rabbit comes from a legend. One year, a plague broke out suddenly in Beijing, and almost everyone got it and could not be cured. Chang 'e was very sad to see this scene, so she sent the jade rabbit around her to treat the people. Jade rabbit turned into a girl. She went door to door and cured many people. In order to thank Jade Rabbit, people gave her things in succession. But Yutu wants nothing but to borrow other people's clothes to wear. Everywhere she went, she changed her clothes, sometimes dressed as an oil seller and sometimes as a fortune teller.

One is men's wear, the other is women's wear. In order to treat more people, Yutu rode his horse, deer, lion and tiger all over the capital. After the plague was eliminated in Beijing, the Jade Rabbit returned to the Moon Palace. Therefore, people created the image of Jade Rabbit with clay sculpture, including those who rode deer, those who rode phoenix, those who wore armor, and those who wore various work clothes. It was very cute.

Every day on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, every family will worship her, give her delicious melons and beans as a reward for her good fortune and happiness, and affectionately call her "rabbit father".