While depictions of these long-eared animals are everywhere as Year of the Rabbit begins, what the creature represents as a totem is as fuzzy as its fur.
In a Year of the Rabbit, images of the zodiac animal are ubiquitous. But despite its omnipresence, it lacks a clear-cut focus, and even worse, it does not have a well-delineated essence. What does the rabbit stand for? People answering this question will cite so many positive qualities as to render the whole point meaningless.
Well, they tend to do that to every zodiac animal during its reign except that, ahem, they have to lie low during the years of the pig or mouse.
The Chinese language does not have equivalents for "rabbit", "hare" and "bunny". All are called tuzi. That is a sign of inattention.
I did a search of tuzi in a Chinese online bookstore, and every title that popped up turned out to be a foreign children's book translated into Chinese. There was no scholarly tome on the cultural symbols associated with the animal. Nor was there any dissection of fairy tales involving the animal or agglomeration of tidbits and traces of it throughout the national psyche.
The rabbit probably epitomizes self-conceitedness more than anything if you take a random survey - but not at the beginning of the lunar year of the animal, when everyone is in a mood to heap eulogies on it.
In Chinese schools, The Tortoise and the Hare has only one interpretation: the hare is foolishly overconfident, and the tortoise has dogged determination.
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