What year is the Year of the Rabbit?

The Year of the Rabbit is determined according to the traditional calendar of China. The "rabbit" in the zodiac corresponds to the cardinal number of the twelve earthly branches. The year of the rabbit is the base year, and every twelve years is a cycle. For example, Gregorian calendar 20 1 1 basically corresponds to the Year of the Rabbit, which is the year of Xinmao.

In addition to using tree trunks and branches to mark the year, we also use the "Zodiac Chronology". Our ancestors matched the twelve earthly branches with twelve kinds of animals, and every year one kind of animal was in charge, which is what we call the zodiac.

Every sixty years, there are five identical earthly branches and five identical zodiac signs. Although the zodiac signs are the same, in the 60-year cycle, the heavenly stems matched by each earthly zodiac sign are different.

Take the Year of the Rabbit as an example, there are five kinds: Ding Mao, Ji Mao, Xin Mao, Gui Mao and Yi Mao. Because the stem of ten days has different five-element attributes, these five different rabbit years have also been endowed with different five-element attributes, namely fire, earth, gold, water and wood.

So the Year of the Rabbit in 2023 is the Year of the Water Rabbit.

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Counting from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the zodiac year is attached to the calendar year of the main branch, the calendar year of the main branch is the calendar year method of the main branch. The same is true of the official almanac of past dynasties (that is, the Yellow Calendar). There is no doubt that the lunar calendar only uses branches to mark the year, which ranges from the first day of the first month to New Year's Eve.

Lunar calendar and trunk calendar are two different calendars, which are different in the starting point of a year, the division rules of months and the number of days in each year. Due to the use of the Gregorian calendar after the Republic of China, many people, including a few so-called experts, lack calendar knowledge, so the two are often confused.