What will the Year of the Rabbit bring us in 2023?

People often assume Frankie Huang is a rabbit. In Mandarin, “me” sounds like “米,” and “too” sounds like “兔.” She also thinks of the idiom, “狡兔三窟,” referring to a rabbit’s vigilance and resourcefulness, as well as the last section from “Ballad of Mulan” — “雄兔腳撲朔，雌兔眼迷離。雙兔傍地走, 安能辨我是雄雌？” In the U.S., we look to Jan. 1 as the start of the new year, but in Asian cultures, the multiweek celebration of Lunar New Year is another chance to put the past behind us and usher in new possibilities. “And we do have a relatively peaceful family.” One of the Bunny Museum’s many glass display cases is devoted to the Chinese zodiac sign for the Year of the Rabbit. Lau said that some Chinese zodiac experts — including her late mother, who published the first edition of “The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes” in 1979 — see the cat as represented in the Tiger year. “They’re really agile, and there’s a duality to them, where they’re sensitive but there’s also a lot of tenacity.” Rabbits know how to enjoy life, said Lau — and enjoying life is definitely something cats also like to do, said Mye Hoang, the director of “Cat Daddies,” a documentary that follows nine men whose lives have been forever changed by their love of cats.