The role of rabbits in folklore

Tao Gu of the Song Dynasty "Cleansing Different Records·Dishes": "Guild soup, pure rabbit." Rabbit is a Chinese zodiac and belongs to criminals. The ancients called rabbit broth as criminal soup.

In the Han nationality, there is a custom to avoid rabbit meat. Because rabbits have a mouth open, pregnant women are prohibited from eating rabbit meat during pregnancy to prevent their children from being born. There is also the custom of giving rabbit paintings to children. In the painting, there are six children around a table, and a person holding a bunny auspicious picture stands on the table, wishing the children who received the gift a peaceful life and a better life. ( Chinese Zodiac http:///shengxiao/)

The ancient Han nationality had the custom of "hanging the head of a rabbit", which was popular in many areas of the country. Every year on the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, people use face rabbit heads or face snakes, and use bamboo tubes to hold snow water, and hang them on the foreheads with the masks of the year flags to show the suppression of evil disasters.

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