Zodiac rabbit hops into view

Library hosts multilevel show on depictions of the animal in art and animation, Zhang Kun reports.

As 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac, more than 300 depictions of the animal in paintings, cartoons and digital programs, are being showcased in Zodiac Art Exhibition, an exhibition of artworks, at the Shanghai Library's Pudong branch, which will run until Feb 19.

The exhibition is being hosted by the Shanghai Artists' Association, the Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Association and the Shanghai Library.

Sun Shaobo, director of the Shanghai Animation and Cartoon Association, says the exhibition organizers had received 2,500 submissions on rabbits from China and another 200 from 40 other countries and regions in a month.

Each section of the exhibition features a unique theme — Chinese festive rabbits, avant-garde designers' rabbits and rabbits by renowned artists.