"Spring and Autumn" mentions that "Yuheng stars scatter and become rabbits", believing that rabbits are the incarnation of stars in the sky. Since ancient times, rabbits have been loved for their gentle and well-behaved nature and soft and fluffy fluff. The rabbit's personality is very similar to our Chinese, low-key and gentle, seemingly weak but very resilient, extremely survivable, positive and endless.
The image of the jade rabbit appears in a large number of works of art, jade carvings, ceramic ornaments, bronze rabbit statues, murals... In the rabbit-shaped artworks handed down, you can see the ancients' love for rabbits.
The "three rabbits" in the Dunhuang murals are probably the most special rabbits in the world, and there is no one. Three rabbits share three ears that are joined together, but each rabbit has two ears from any angle. Chasing each other, but never chasing each other... Make the picture look particularly dynamic.
Photo: Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Cave 407 Mogao Well Map "Three Rabbits Common Ear Map"
Rabbit patterns are common jade carving themes in ancient times, and jade pendants were unearthed in the Shang Dynasty. In jade carvings, rabbits are mostly docile images with close ears, bowed heads, and short necks and round tails.
Pictured: Qing dynasty white jade inlaid treasure rabbit
On September 24, 2020, at Christie's auction in New York, a Tang Dynasty white-glazed rabbit appeared, although it was a scrapper, but it was finally sold for 400,000 US dollars (about 2.8 million yuan), known as the "sky-high Internet red rabbit". This white-glazed rabbit has a rounded shape, low eyebrows and smooth ears, and bulging cheeks. It's very pleasing to shake your hand. It is very in line with people's conjecture of the "little white rabbit".
Pictured: Don Gong County kiln white-glazed rabbit Christie's New York 2020 lot
In modern times, it is believed that the rabbit who "does not eat the grass on the edge of the nest" is good at keeping money and has become a symbol of wealth. Rabbits love to eat cabbage and radish, cabbage homonym "hundred wealth", radish is the meaning of "color head", so the image of rabbit holding cabbage and radish often appears in works of art, meaning fruitful. In addition, rabbit homonym for "way", rabbit ornaments, etc. also mean "a bright future".
In Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, the thousand-year-old porcelain capital, a large number of rabbit zodiac porcelain based on rabbits are on the market, they are either cute or cute, and have become people's favorite New Year gifts.
The Year of the Rabbit is approaching, may everyone get everything they want, and the money is like a rabbit.
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Copywriter: Zhang Yuqing
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