What does master rabbit mean

Master Rabbit (folklore) generally refers to the Rabbit Master (a children's toy popular in Beijing City).

The Rabbit Master is a local traditional handicraft in Beijing and belongs to the children's toys for the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in Beijing would worship the "Rabbit Master". This custom originated in the Ming Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the "Rabbit Master" was transformed into a children's toy for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, some people copied the characters of the opera and carved them into warriors with golden helmets and armor, some riding lions and elephants, and some with paper flags or umbrellas on their backs, sitting or standing, which made them very attractive.

People in accordance with the Moon Palace, Chang'e Jade Rabbit, the Jade Rabbit further art, personification, and even after the deification, molded in clay into a variety of different forms of rabbit. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Jade Rabbit in the Moon Palace was gradually separated from the appendages of the moon worship, and formed an independent image in the moon rituals, which was gradually enriched. The Rabbit is both sacred and secular in character, combining the functions of worship and amusement. Nowadays, the Rabbit Master has become one of the most representative intangible cultural heritages in Beijing.

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The Rabbit Masters, the largest of which is more than three feet tall, and the smallest only three inches tall, are pink and white, with gold helmets and armor on their heads and banners or umbrellas on their backs. Its mounts are lions, tigers, deer, elephants and so on. The rabbit's left hand rests on a mortar, and the right hand holds a pestle and mortar, in the form of pounding medicine.

In addition, there are scraping and beating the mouth of the rabbit master, its system cavity, live on the upper lip, tied to the line, pulling, then the rabbit lips pounding. In short, there are many different kinds, to name a few. The old capital, there is this for the industry, every August into the old calendar, they set up stalls in the street, suitable for festivals into the point of view.