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The method of folding a bunny

Folding rabbit steps are as follows:

1, will be a square of paper, along the diagonal folded out of the trace, and then strife along the two diagonal folds, folded into a triangle will be the lower two corners of the triangle folded upwards, turned to the reverse side also folded this way.

2, the left and right sides of the triangle to the center of the fold, the aspect of the same, the excess paper below the top of the paper stuffed, turned to the back, the corner of the fold outward, folded the two corners down as shown.

3, the folded corners propped up, folded into the shape of the rabbit ears, and then folded, blowing into the mouth of the front, the rabbit bulged, drawing eyes and whiskers, so that the bunny is folded.

Legend of the Rabbit:

The Jade Rabbit:

That is, the moon. Legend has it that there is a white rabbit in the moon, so it is used as a synonym for the moon. Fu Xuan's "Proposed Heavenly Direction": "What is there in the moon, the white rabbit pounding medicine." Jia Dao (贾岛)《Gift to Zen Master Zhilang》poem:"Superior man sees it clearly, but the Jade Rabbit is not there at the bottom of the pool." Xin Qiji (辛弃疾)'s poem Man Jiang Hong (满江红), "Mid-Autumn Festival" (中秋): "I want to climb the stairs to look at the Jade Rabbit, but I don't want to see anyone opening the curtain to cover the silver que. The idiom of "the golden crow falls in the west, the jade rabbit rises in the east" is the result of the industry, and see the golden crow.

The theory of the moon rabbit:

Ancient myths and legends say that there is a white rabbit in the moon, which is called the rabbit in the moon, and also called the moon rabbit. In the Art and Culture Classification Gathering, Volume 1, Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty cited the Five Classics: "What is the rabbit and the toad in the moon? The moon is also yin, and the toad is also yang, and the rabbit is also bright, and the yin is tied to the yang." Fu Xian (傅咸)《拟天问》:"What is in the moon? The Jade Rabbit pounding medicine."

Yu Yan "seat on the rotten talk" volume: "I say that the rabbit from the day, the so-called rabbit in the moon, the moon in the daylight is also ...... the secular world then said that the moon in the pounding of pills rabbit, delusional." The moon rabbit also refers to the mythological story "Chang'e Runs to the Moon" in which a white rabbit soared with Chang'e to the Moon Palace. There are many references in ancient poems and texts, also borrowed to refer to the moon.