Sponsored by the Capital Museum, two exhibitions themed on this year's zodiac animal, the ox, were held during the Spring Festival and ended on February 10. A cultural relics show, “Talking about the Ox in the Year of the Ox,” displayed more than 100 pieces of ox-shaped works, including a bronze ox, jade ox, ceramic ox, clay ox and tree-root-carving ox, as well as ox paintings.

A clay ox is displayed in an ox-themed exhibition at the Capital Museum.[Chinadaily.com.cn/ by Feng Hui]

Most of the exhibits came from the collection of the Han Dynasty Yang Mausoleum Museum and Xi'an Jingwen Ox Cultural Museum, in Shaanxi province. The show aimed to exhibit ox culture by displaying different kinds of ox collections.