Hong Kong Hosts Chinese Rabbit Heritage Exhibition (Photos)

In order to add festive atmosphere, many places have held Lunar New Year exhibitions during the Spring Festival. This year coincides with the Year of the Rabbit. From this, the Museum of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong specializes in the exhibition of Chinese rabbit cultural relics entitled “Rui Tu Ying Xiang”. From the Warring States Period to the late Qing Dynasty, there were a total of 67 pieces of rabbit cultural relics, including gold, silver, jade, stone ornaments, bronze mirrors, bronze seals, porcelain and paintings.

The bronze mirror of the moon palace in the Tang Dynasty is one of the key exhibits of the "Ruitu Yingxiang" exhibition. This bronze mirror uses a round mirror back as a full moon, with a laurel tree engraved in the middle, and white rabbits on both sides of the tree with crickets and peony. In addition, from the Ming Dynasty painter Zhang Lu's "Shu", a pair of silver rabbit patterns in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's imitation Song Yutu Chao Yuancheng muddy, etc., but also from the middle of the month there are rabbit legends.

There are also many gold, silver, jade and crystal rabbit ornaments, such as gold medals, silver ribbons, and jade ribbons worn on the belts, and white jade rabbits that can be played. Rabbit title bite stone block screen and so on. In terms of porcelain, there is a colorful eagle eagle rabbit drawing plate in the late Ming Dynasty, and a rabbit pattern blue and white porcelain piece in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, reflecting that the porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties often used the rabbit as a painting decoration.

In addition, Hong Kong’s another “National Treasure Glass New Year” exhibition is also attracting attention, showing nearly 50 pieces of material treasures created by Xing Lanxiang, the sixth generation descendant of the Beijing Glassware (Ruli). "Magnolia basket", "Silk Road", "Bai Cai", "Shou Tao", "Dragon", and Xing Lanxiang specially presented Hong Kong people's "Rain Year Glass King: Golden Rabbit Welcomes", etc., exquisitely carved, each Implications, emitting a magnificent appearance.