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2023 is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit or, more specifically, the Year of the Water Rabbit. The rabbit is believed to be a gentle animal that thinks before acting. The Year of the Rabbit represents peaceful and patient energy. The color for the element of water is black.
BLACK WATER RABBIT
- The Sung (Song) Dynasty can be seen as the highlight in the development of traditional Chinese painting. The main themes of Sung painting were landscape ( 山水 "mountains and rivers"), birds and flowers ( 花鳥 ) and the living nature such as bamboos, birds, insects, horses and other plants and animals.( 人物畫 ). The Sung Dynasty can be regarded as The Golden Era of Chinese Painting and Pottery.
- Song dynasty, romanization Sung, (960–1279), Chinese dynasty that ruled the country during one of its most brilliant cultural epochs. It is commonly divided into Bei (Northern) and Nan (Southern) Song periods, as the dynasty ruled only in South China after 1127.