The auspicious tiger bids farewell to the old, and the jade rabbit welcomes the new. In traditional Chinese culture, the rabbit has always been a symbol of auspiciousness. As one of the twelve zodiac signs, it carries people's yearning for a better life and their homesickness. With the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit, the "New Year Pictures，Painting the Year" series of the Agricultural and Rural Program Center of China Central Radio and Television will launch a special program for the Year of the Rabbit - "New Year Pictures，Painting the Year，Jade Rabbit Brings Good Luck".

The program focuses on the zodiac rabbit, explores the rabbit elements in traditional paintings and intangible cultural heritage, and uses New Year paintings as a carrier to tell the unique emotions of the Chinese people during the Spring Festival and their wonderful fate with rabbits. The program consists of independent stories, crossing ancient and modern times, across China and the West, and telling interesting "Stories of the Year of the Rabbit" with a wide range of imagination.

Rabbit King Competition

In China, there are many legends and historical stories about rabbits. Among them, "The white rabbit pounded medicine and asked who to eat with", the beautiful legend of Chang'e flying to the moon and the jade rabbit pounding medicine is well-known to everyone. In recent years, Chinese astronauts have been exploring the universe and the moon. "Chang'e 5" and "Yutu 2" have also appeared in the public's field of vision, which represents the "Jade Rabbit" complex in the bones of the Chinese. In addition, there is also a mysterious rabbit pattern in the Dunhuang murals - "Three Rabbits with One Ear". The three rabbits are connected head to tail, circling back and forth, with agile postures, and following each other, implying auspiciousness, perfection, and endless life.

The two protagonists in the first episode of "New Year Paintings，Jade Rabbit Brings Fortune" are the Space Jade Rabbit from the Space New Team of the Space Cultural and Creative Center (CASCI) of the Seventh Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and the Flying Moon Rabbit from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. They represent scientific and technological power and traditional culture respectively. The program will tell a unique story of the Year of the Rabbit through a competition on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Dunhuang Flying Rabbit

Ying Cheng, a Chongqing girl born in the 1990s, has won the love of the public by posting original images such as "Dunhuang Rabbit Dun" on social platforms. In real life, she has a pet rabbit and uses her paintbrush to create countless shapes for the little rabbit. By reading a large number of books and restoration drawings and consulting relevant researchers, Ying Cheng completed the first "Dunhuang Little Rabbit Dun" painting in combination with the Guanyin statue in Cave 199 of Dunhuang.

Ying Cheng is somewhat dissatisfied with her work. She has never been to Dunhuang, but this time she decided to explore the world of Dunhuang, overturn her past creative ideas, and redraw a Dunhuang rabbit painting to show the most cultured dancer in the rabbit world and the cutest rabbit in the dance world.

Qiu Rui Talks about the New Year

Qiu Rui, a talk show actor, is also an outstanding representative of people who are urged to get married during the Spring Festival.

During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, Qiu Rui returned to his hometown Shenyang and put on the slippers he bought for 3.9 yuan. Looking at the New Year paintings on the wall that symbolized "many children and good fortune" and the other six New Year paintings he had been looking forward to, he fell into deep thought: Why do other people buy New Year paintings "with heart", while his family only "goes for quantity"? For this reason, he was inspired and wrote a talk show manuscript, and on the third day of the New Year, he appeared on the stage of the "New Year Painting" talk show open mic.

The rabbit who can dance the lion

Recently, a national trend pastry "Xingshi Su" based on the intangible cultural heritage project Foshan "Li Family Lion" has become popular on the Internet. Its production process is extremely difficult, and 160 knives are needed on a square of dough of one centimeter! The special correspondent of "New Year Paintings Drawing Year，Jade Rabbit Brings Fortune" went to Shenyang to find out.

The protagonist of this program is Wu Yang, a Shenyang pastry chef born after 1985. The Year of the Rabbit is Wu Yang's birth year. He decided to draw nourishment from traditional Chinese culture and design a more difficult Rabbit God Lion Waking Pastry that can show the characteristics of the rabbit with pastry to open the door to the new year, and at the same time let more people feel the charm of Chinese pastries and the ingenuity of Chinese craftsmen.

Ancient Rabbit "Cloning Technique"

Rongbaozhai is a "treasure" old brand in Beijing with a history of more than 300 years. It has a large collection of calligraphy and paintings, and cultural relics, and is known as the "folk Forbidden City". The woodblock watermarking technique of Rongbaozhai is a "magic skill" here, which can copy paintings like "clones" and ordinary people can hardly distinguish between male and female. With the advent of the Year of the Rabbit, Rongbaozhai is preparing to make a woodblock watermark painting of the double rabbit painting by the Qing Dynasty painter Yan Bolong for sale. At present, after several months of tracing and stereotyping, the painting has entered the final printing stage.

As the Year of the Rabbit approaches, Rongbaozhai is preparing to make a woodblock watermark painting of the double rabbits painted by Yan Bolong, a painter of the Qing Dynasty, for sale. At present, after months of sketching and engraving, the painting has entered the final printing stage. Each of its processes condenses the technicians' unparalleled craftsmanship and skills, and with the woodblock watermark technology. The elegant art of "the swallows in the halls of the old Wang Xie" can also "fly into the homes of ordinary people."

Rabbit God Goes to Beijing

Hu Pengfei is from Fengxiang, Shaanxi, but now he is the national intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the famous Rabbit God clay sculpture in Beijing. Recently, Hu Pengfei innovatively created a new story of Rabbit God with clay sculpture: Rabbit God came to Beijing, what kind of scene would it be to travel to the capital of the Ming Dynasty?

What extraordinary experience would Rabbit God have in the world? Chen Chen, the New Year painting experience officer, will visit this journey. The story of the Rabbit God has returned to people's vision with the arrival of the Year of the Rabbit in 2023.

Looking for the "Jade Rabbit"

One of the most classic rabbit images in traditional Chinese woodblock New Year paintings is the "Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine". The New Year painting experience officer came to Boshan City, Shandong Province, the hometown of Chinese colored glaze, to look for the "Jade Rabbit" in the New Year. Here, the master of inner painting showed his skills and painted the picture of the Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine inside a small jade pot; at the ultra-high temperature colored glaze kiln, the artist blew out the elegant "Flying Jade Rabbit" in a few seconds; there was also the Jade Rabbit lunar rover looking up at the stars, combined with the innovation of colored glaze art... "Jade Rabbits" of various shapes gathered together to celebrate the New Year.

During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, "New Year Painting Year，Jade Rabbit Brings Good Luck" was launched warmly, looking forward to meeting you again, January 22, 2023 at 20:15, see you there. (Source: China Central Radio and Television Agricultural and Rural Program Center)

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