What does "Moon Jade Rabbit" mean?

Hao Yueyu Rabbit, a rare beast of Tianlong Babu, is named Hao Yueyu Rabbit; Long life; Good at internal attack; The attack location is flexible.

We can see from the Han Dynasty portrait bricks that the Jade Rabbit generally does not appear as a separate image, or is engaged in medical work, so it appears with other immortals and beasts as a part of the immortal world depicted in the Han Dynasty tomb art. It can be said that the rabbit in the brick of the Han Dynasty is not the protagonist in the portrait, but the Queen Mother of the West, who is in charge of the elixir of life. The rabbit is just the attendant who helps it to take medicine.

Although in some portraits, the protagonist is the Jade Rabbit, there are often pictures of the Queen Mother of the West or fairy beasts related to the Queen Mother of the West. There were many followers under the throne of the Empress Dowager in the Han Dynasty, including fairy birds, dragons and tigers, feathered people, toads and other humanoid servants.

Rabbits are enduring in people's literary works, mainly based on people's love for rabbits. Since prehistoric society, people have found this agile and flexible animal in hunting activities, and have reverence and worship for its vigorous vitality and reproductive ability, so people have begun to apply rabbit modeling to artistic creation.

With the development of Yin-Yang theory, people began to associate rabbits with the moon according to their living habits. In the popular myth of the Queen Mother of the West at that time, people also reserved a place for rabbits, making them the creators of fairy medicine.

China ancients' artistic processing ability and imagination ability are infinite. In the process of artistic processing and integration, Jade Rabbit gradually changed from a beast specializing in medicine to a Jade Rabbit embraced by a beautiful fairy in the Moon Palace.