Fine art

2013 year of the snake. Enhydris chinensis is a crepuscular, or nocturnal snake, found in fresh water.

2013 year of the snake. Hydrophiinae is the subfamily of sea snakes.

2013 year of the snake.

2013 year of the snake. The legend tells how the white snake became an immortal.

Chinese New Year 4708 Metal Rabbit. A scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail - Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog

Mr McGregor is in the background.

Metal rabbit 4708. Heavy metal rabbit band.

Metal rabbit year 4708. Rabbit wary of trap.

The people paint the dragon's shape with a horse's head and a snake's tail. Further, there are expressions as 'three joints' and 'nine resemblances' (of the dragon), to wit: from head to shoulder, from shoulder to breast, from breast to tail. These are the joints; as to the nine resemblances, they are the following: his horns resemble those of a stag, his head that of a camel, his eyes those of a demon, his neck that of a snake, his belly that of a clam (shen, 蜃), his scales those of a carp, his claws those of an eagle, his soles those of a tiger, his ears those of a cow. Upon his head he has a thing like a broad eminence (a big lump), called [chimu] (尺木). If a dragon has no [chimu], he cannot ascend to the sky.
de Visser, Marinus Willem (1913), The Dragon in China and Japan, Verhandelingen der Koninklijke akademie van wetenschappen te Amsterdam. Afdeeling Letterkunde. Nieuwe reeks, deel xiii, no. 2, Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, p. 70

Chinese Water Dragon (Physignathus cocincinus)