The rabbits are indeed very attractive, and the rabbit lights in various cities this year are very amazing!
In Taikoo Li, Shanghai, a rabbit fell on all fours, which means "about to turn over".
Hangzhou, which is close to Shanghai, is not to be left behind, let the rabbit tour West Lake at night.
From afar, it was lonely, romantic and poetic.
This bunny also has a unique name, called "Bunny Xiao Rabbit", and the light version looks like this.
With the background of the ancient pavilion, after reading it, you can instantly understand the poet's sentence "only make Hangzhou Bianzhou".
It is indispensable to visit the temple fair in the New Year, and Lanzhou directly made a rabbit for visiting the temple fair.
Nanjing's Ming Dynasty rabbit, feel that they will enter Beijing to report in the next second?
Xi'an's Chang'e rabbit is completely in line with the characteristics of the ancient capital.
Heilongjiang is based on local materials and arranged a huge ice and snow rabbit, which makes people can't help @Zhongxuegao.
The weather in Quanzhou is still warm, there are many flowers and plants, and the green rabbit is really green.
There is also this kind of bunny that worships the moon.
Because many cities have launched their own urban rabbit lights, some cities have come up with a competitive heart...
The rabbit lamp in Chongqing has now been removed because it looks like this.
In addition to the city's landmarks, the sheep also saw that Dunhuang also launched a new three-rabbit co-ear map, which means endless life.
The pastry brand also couldn't help but launch a limited edition for the Year of the Rabbit.
Come and feel the enthusiasm of the people.
There are also folk masters who can't grab it and do it themselves.
However, this is generally difficult, because there are also those who directly make rabbit lamps themselves.
Let's just say that Chinese's passion for the animal image of the rabbit is really high.
Chinese New Year's Eve sheep who are still working hard to be more wen simply have a plate of Chinese rabbit print aesthetics with everyone today:
Rabbits have been accompanying humans for more than 3w years?
Why are anthropologists and economists studying rabbits?
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A rabbit that lives in symbiosis with humans
Why do Chinese like rabbits so much?
At first it was because of awe and cravings for food.
3W years ago, the primitive man branched the mountaintop cave people, and there was a tradition of hunting rabbits.
Peng Feisheng, an anthropologist at Fudan University, also found that the diet of a rabbit unearthed at a site he studied was the same as that of a pig, which only shows that they were raised by the same owner.
Or to describe the relationship between rabbits and humans in one word: symbiosis.
It has been 5,000 years since humans learned to herd rabbits and rabbits.
There are even scholars who explain the reason why cats and cats are colder from this perspective, because compared to rabbits, the history of cats and cats being domesticated by humans is too short (but perhaps humans have never domesticated cats and cats).
Interestingly, as one of the first animals to deal with humans, not only anthropologists were interested in rabbits, but economists were also interested in rabbits.
Source: Qing Dynasty "Life and Happiness Map"
They believe that tracking the evolution of the human-rabbit relationship can help understand how ancient China developed spiritually, socially and economically.
Because the diet of rabbits is closely related to the way humans use land, in a way, rabbits and humans have produced similar evolutionary trajectories.
The fatter the rabbit, the richer the people.
Source: Blogger @Transparent Liang Yi "Qingming Shanghe Rabbit"
Because of such a close symbiotic relationship, when humans have recording tools, they can often see the shadow of rabbits.
The rabbit pattern is also produced.
To put it simply, the traditional Chinese rabbit pattern is divided into three types: three-dimensional rabbit pattern statue, flat decorative pattern, and rabbit pattern in painting.
The first three-dimensional rabbit pattern relies on the carvability of the artifact itself;
Clay, jade, bronze, precious metals, can be, mostly for decorative or funeral purposes.
The second type of floor plan is often seen on everyday utensils such as porcelain, which can better reflect the difference in people's aesthetics of rabbit patterns in daily life;
The rabbit in the third type of painting changes according to different painting styles.
For example, the shape of the rabbit below is the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty.
Let's talk about them one by one.
As a rabbit around human life
Rabbit-print statues appeared in prehistoric times.
In Shang Zhou, jade rabbits were also found in the tomb of Nuhao.
In ancient times, the custom of using zodiac figurines as tomb objects was used, and the rabbits in the tomb were mostly rabbit figurines or ornaments.
According to the different carving materials, there are jade rabbits and pottery rabbits.
Judging from the carving materials it has handed down, in the eyes of humans, the status of rabbits has always been quite high.
The carving style of the three-dimensional rabbit also changes with the development of human carving skills, simple and crude in the early stage, and vivid in the later stage.
After talking about the three-dimensional rabbit pattern, let's talk about the flat rabbit pattern.
At about the same time as the appearance of the three-dimensional rabbit, flat decorative rabbit patterns also appeared.
It first appeared on the pottery of primitive civilizations, and then appeared on bronze ware of the Western Zhou Dynasty during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
There are also the clothes and fabrics of the nobles and nobles.
In the Zhou Dynasty, rabbit patterns were often painted together with the "three-legged wu", representing the month and the day respectively, which became one of the imperial motifs.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a custom of changing seasonal clothing with the solar term, and rabbit-pattern clothing was worn by the palace dependents during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
When it comes to human records of rabbit prints, the records about rabbits are actually similar to the history of human writing.
When there is no writing and no recording tools, there is first three-dimensional shaping, which is close to the evolution of hieroglyphs and then Yiyi writing in the history of writing.
After the recording tools, the flat rabbit pattern began to appear, and later, with the common cloth paper and other calligraphy and painting tools, the flat pattern of the rabbit was further developed. Also as a pattern on the fabric in the figure below, the rabbit can have a completely different shape.
In the Han Dynasty, because of the appearance of "Huainanzi" that recorded Chang'e's rush to the moon, the rabbit was regarded as a sacred beast on the moon, and the flat rabbit pattern suddenly developed by leaps and bounds.
Especially the ornaments of Jade Rabbit pounding medicine.
Many jade rabbits pounding medicine ornaments appear in the Han Dynasty portrait stones, and two jade rabbits, one left and one right, each holding a medicine pestle, take turns pounding medicine.
What medicine is pounded? Elixir, human affection for rabbits and rabbits has increased again.
In the Tang Dynasty, various forms of rabbits often appeared on the brocade.
Rabbit ears are long and tail is short, and the shape is also cute, whether it is running and jumping, it has a lively beauty and is very popular.
In the Yuan Dynasty, with the advancement of brocade technology, rabbit patterns were more and more complex, and symmetrical and beautiful tumbling patterns appeared.
In modern times, people's love for rabbits has reached the point of worship.
While absorbing the outline and color of the ancient rabbit pattern, the rabbit ears are exaggerated and more anthropomorphic, and the rabbit becomes a rabbit master.
Suddenly changed from a human hunting object to a god used to protect human abilities.
At this time, the shape of the rabbit has basically evolved, and then it is the stage of modern art.
Why do humans like & worship rabbits
After talking about the evolution of rabbit prints, let's talk about why people are so keen on rabbit prints.
As we mentioned earlier, the rabbit was one of the animals successfully domesticated by humans very early, with a gentle and agile appearance and cute appearance.
Also because it has two independent uteruses, you can carry babies of different sizes at the same time, and the reproductive ability is super strong, which means many children and many blessings.
The ancient book "Erya Shibeast", known as the ancient dictionary, once recorded: "Rabbit is childbirth", here rabbit means fertility.
Source: @Li NaART Studio
In addition, in ancient China, white was a mysterious color, and because of its rarity, it was often regarded as a sign of auspiciousness.
The ancient book "Rui Ying Tu" recorded: "White Rabbit Zhongrui".
The "Song Shufei Furui Zhi" also lists white animals such as white horses, white foxes, white swallows, white cranes, and white rabbits as auspicious things.
There are also historical officials who will record the experience of encountering the white rabbit.
Another reason is that humans have always appreciated the cleverness of rabbits.
The three caves of the rabbit run faster than the rabbit, and the rabbit does not eat the grass on the edge of the nest, which is also the meaning of the rabbit being smart and clever.
Not only appreciating, but also passing it down in words and sayings, becoming the wake-up call and philosophy that rabbits bring to mankind.
Speaking of which, the sheep's introduction to the rabbit today is also over.
As the first year after the end of the epidemic, the sheep would like to finally wish you treasures in the Year of the Rabbit:
兔year 兔 young；
Rabbit Rich!