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 really has the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so rabbits are a must-have item 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.
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Grandpa rabbit is made of mud. He wore armor on his head, put a flag on his back, covered his face with gold mud, painted all over his body, sat or stood, pounded or rode an animal with a pestle, and held it by his 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 to earth to eliminate the plague. Jade rabbit asks for nothing in return, but clothes, so as to constantly change the figure of men and women and save more lives.
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.