Zhao Shuli's male prostitute

Every winter when I was a child, my mother would put on a wool hat with two white rabbit ears.

Adults call me a prostitute. I am very happy myself.

But I always liked this hat, so I wore it until I was in junior high school.

It's winter again. When I think of Beijing, I suddenly think of male prostitutes, so I found some information to share with you.

Today, there are Korean rogue rabbits everywhere. How many people will remember our former male prostitute?

Speaking of rabbits, although it is small (1 meter, less than 3 cm), it looks impressive: dressed in clothes, holding a pestle, or wearing armor or a red robe. There are also people who ride Hei Hu, Yellow Tiger, Deer, Kirin, Lotus, Moire, carry a flag, carry an umbrella, and so on. The shape of the rabbit pays attention to gorgeous clothes and facial features. Usually look straight at your eyes, close your mouth with three flaps, and apply a touch of rouge to your face. His beauty is majestic, his dignity is childish, and he is lively and lovely.

Now Father Rabbit's situation is not as good as before. In addition to the temple fair during the Spring Festival, we can also see the figure of Father Rabbit. The rest of the time, it's just a dragon without a tail! Far away, I won't mention it. In fact, in the early 1950s, there were still many rabbits in Beijing. Especially before the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were "rabbit stalls" everywhere in the streets. Even during the Japanese invasion of China, rabbits were still very popular. Mr. Lao She described the characteristics of the rabbit father at that time in the novel "A Family of Four Generations", saying that the rabbit father "had no rouge on his face, but drew a thin line on the mouth of the small three petals, which was red and oiled; Two slender white ears were painted with light red; In this way, the rabbit's face presents a handsome appearance, as if it were Huang Tianba in the rabbit. Its upper body is wearing a scarlet robe, and below its waist are green leaves and pink flowers. Every leaf fold and every petal is carefully dyed into a bright and even color, which makes the green leaves and safflower shine. "

So how did Father Rabbit come into being?

Let's start with a legendary story: one year, a plague broke out suddenly in Beijing, and almost every family had patients, so it was not good to take any medicine. Chang 'e in the Moon Palace was very sad to see the scene of burning incense and seeking medical treatment, so she sent jade rabbits around her to the world to eliminate disasters and treat diseases. Jade rabbit turned into a girl and came to Beijing. She visited from house to house and cured many patients. People want to give Yutu something to thank her. But Yutu wants nothing but to borrow clothes from others. In this way, Yutu changed her costume everywhere, sometimes dressed as an oil seller, and sometimes dressed as a fortune teller ... for a while, she dressed as a man, and for a while she dressed as a woman. In order to treat more patients, Jade Rabbit rode horses, deer, or women rode lions and tigers all over Beijing. The Jade Rabbit eradicated the plague in Beijing and returned to the Moon Palace. However, her beautiful image remains in the hearts of Beijingers forever. 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 and give her delicious fruits and beans as a reward for her good luck and happiness. People also affectionately call her "Grandpa Rabbit" and "Grandma Rabbit".

Legends are legends after all. In fact, the appearance of the rabbit father stems from people's worship of the moon god and the confirmation of the myth. The legend about the moon has an important influence here. The legend of the rabbit on the moon began in the Spring and Autumn Period. The silk paintings unearthed from the No.1 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, reflect the myth: a toad with a glossy ganoderma mouth and a jumping white rabbit are juxtaposed in a crescent moon. This shows that the myth of the moon rabbit was still circulating in the Han Dynasty. The "Dong Chenglong" brick unearthed in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, also shows the image of a jade rabbit fiddling with drugs. 1968, an unnamed tomb of the Southern Dynasties was discovered in Danyang City, Jiangsu Province. Two portrait bricks were unearthed in the tomb, representing the moon and the sun respectively. There is a tree on the moon brick and a jade rabbit under it. Chu Jiu is very vivid.

In the folk, the common people abide by the common agreement that "men don't sacrifice the moon and women don't sacrifice the stove", so the sacrifice of the moon is mostly borne by women. Children who are always with their mothers like to imitate the behavior of adults very much, so they created a statue dedicated to the children to worship the moon: Father Rabbit.

Children buy rabbits and worship them like adults. In the woodblock New Year pictures printed by Yangliuqing during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there is a picture of "Returning to Xusheng to Tu Ping", which truly records the scene of children worshipping rabbits at that time: in the picture, rabbits are sitting high on the table with watermelons, pomegranates, peaches and moon cakes in front of them; Two boys knelt down, and one boy hit his chin with touching eyes. The folk custom of this festival was also introduced into the palace, and the royal family also sacrificed rabbits according to the folk custom. At the end of Qing Dynasty, Tsui Hark said in Qing Ji Chao: "In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the capital used clay to sculpt the rabbit god, his face was covered with gold mud and his body was painted. The giant is three or four feet tall and worth nearly ten thousand yuan. Your giant room is bought and returned, supported by fragrant flowers and cakes, and so is the ban. " There are many kinds of rabbits in the Palace Museum, which are relics of the royal children's sacrifice to the moon.

Since rabbits are for children, it is inevitable to have a toy color. Usually after offering sacrifices, it becomes children's toys, so there is a rabbit, which can manipulate the strings to make the arms move. According to "Spring and Autumn Ming Feng Ji", "The cavity is made, the upper lip is fitted live, and the middle part is tied with thread. Pull the thread down and your lips will break. " At the same time, there are all kinds of rabbit shapes listed with the rabbit father, such as "Rabbit Mountain", where a group of rabbits gather on the rocks with different shapes, playing various musical instruments and celebrating each other; There is a moving rabbit with a spring, which is lively and interesting when touched lightly. There is also a kind of "grandma rabbit", probably grandpa rabbit's "spouse", dressed as an old woman and worshiped side by side with grandpa rabbit. In Jinan City, Shandong Province, the popular "Rabbit King" is also made of clay sculpture. The rabbit's head and arms are clasped together, holding the pestle and making it look like medicine.

Rabbits are well-known in Beijing, so many proverbs and allegorical sayings related to rabbits have been derived, such as "rabbit's flag-one-on-one", because the rabbit's flag has only one side; There is also the "rabbit every other year-teacher Chen's son", because rabbits are made of mud and rarely can be preserved until the next year. So, if you see the son of the rabbit made last year, it belongs to the old rabbit.