Rabbits have always been regarded as auspicious beasts. In mainland zodiac culture, the jade rabbit, white rabbit, and red rabbit represent goodness, beauty, and peace. In the museums in the north and south of the world, there are many treasures related to rabbits.
Beijing: Jade Rabbit Earrings Golden Ring Like a Bright Moon Jade Rabbit Stepping on the Clouds
Luo Ziying: This is the historical and cultural exhibition area of Beijing's Ming Tombs, where more than 3,000 cultural relics unearthed from Dingling are displayed, and there is also a little rabbit of the Ming Dynasty, this is a little white jade rabbit, look at it is still pounding medicine, red eyes are so cute.
Zheng Hongyan, deputy section chief of the Cultural Relics Section of the Ming Tombs Management Center in Changping District: Its eyes are rubies, and the top is a round, gold, symbolizing the round moon in the sky. This jade rabbit is made of mutton fat jade, and legend has it that there is this little white rabbit above the Moon Palace, and it pounds medicine, and it is called a toad pill, and you can live forever by taking this pill.
Xi'an, Shaanxi: Zodiac Rabbit Figurines span thousands of years
In Xi'an, Shaanxi, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, there are countless rabbits that have accompanied the ancients day and night. This zodiac rabbit figurine, now in the Shaanxi History Museum, is draped in a popular robe of the Tang Dynasty, with its head slightly raised, like a courtier in the court, with a solemn expression. In the Ming Dynasty, the zodiac figurines were more realistic and more life-like. In the museum, the reporter also found a cute rabbit - the Tang Dynasty talcum rabbit, which looks like a mouse that we usually use.
Guo Jia, docent of the Shaanxi History Museum: It was the town of Xi used by the Tang Dynasty to press mats at that time.
Changsha, Hunan Province: Flying jade "rabbit" more than 2,000 years ago
Jiang Wenjing, reporter of the main station: Next, I want to lead you into the Hunan Museum and look for the image of the jade rabbit more than 2,000 years ago. Now in front of us, it is the T-shaped painting unearthed in the tomb of Mrs. Xinchai, Mawangdui Han in Changsha, and it can be speculated that it was painted in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. Can you find where the Jade Rabbit is?
Look, here, in the upper left of the painting, a white jade rabbit jumps up. On the occasion of the Year of the Rabbit, I wish everyone to be as energetic, healthy, ambitious and exhaled as this little rabbit.
Rabbit culture in artifacts
In the Year of the Rabbit, we travel through history to find the rabbit elements hidden in the cultural relics.
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Wuhan, Hubei: Rabbit elements in Ming Dynasty treasures
She Lixia, reporter of the main station: Looking for rabbits in the year of the rabbit, here is the exhibition hall of the Liangzhuang King Collection of the Hubei Provincial Museum.
King Liang Zhuang lived in the Ming Dynasty more than 600 years ago, and there are thousands of pieces of King Liang Zhuang on display here. One of the "blue and white jade openwork dongsheng picture ringets" is delicate and eye-catching. A full moon is set off by a "bone cloud" in the middle of the pattern, and below the moon is a fruit loquat tree, under which a pair of jade rabbits look up at the moon. According to reports, the jade accessories of this pair of double rabbits looking at the moon should be sewn on clothing or used for inlay.
Cai Luwu, director of the Conservation Department of Hubei Provincial Museum: Especially after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the general ornamental pattern is that the picture must be intentional, the meaning must be auspicious, pay attention to auspiciousness, and the meaning of this rabbit is auspicious.
The reporter also borrowed the "rabbit" here to send blessings, wishing the audience a safe and healthy year of the rabbit, and good luck when encountering the "rabbit".
Jinan, Shandong: Cheng Shuang jade rabbit pounding medicine busy, love is happy and longevity
In the year of the rabbit, this is Sanguanmiao Village, Jiyang District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, where archaeologists found Han Dynasty portrait stones engraved with jade rabbit pounding medicine maps.
Wang Yong, director of the Jiyang Museum: What is this, two rabbits, jade rabbits pounding medicine. Everywhere else is a rabbit pounding medicine, and we are two rabbits pounding here, this is what makes it different, it means that love is happy, in pairs. What kind of medicine is pounded? The elixir of life means health and longevity.
Taiyuan, Shanxi: Bronze Rabbit Zun Rabbit brick carving "Encounter" rabbit Chengxiang
Zhao Yingjie: Looking for rabbits in the year of the rabbit, what did the bronze rabbit Zun look like about 3,000 years ago? Let's take you to the Shanxi Archaeological Museum to find out.
Zhao Yingjie, reporter of the main station: We see that what is displayed here is a rabbit brick carving from the Qing Dynasty.
Curator Zhang Jun: Now this group of rabbit brick carvings are very exquisite, it is used in the decoration of our courtyard, the owner uses rabbits as the theme of decoration, wanting to express some good life wishes for his children and grandchildren at that time, prosperous and prosperous.
(Reporters from the main station: Luo Ziying, Chen Baoshan, Lei Kai, Li Yang, Guo Sheng, Yan Naizhi, Jiang Wenjing, Lou Chao, She Lixia, Yang Yao, Zhao Yingjie, Cui Xiaoran, Liu Yingchao, Zhang Peng, Zhu Lupeng, Jinan Tai, Ji Balcony)
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