What year is the Lunar Year of the Rabbit?

The Year of the Rabbit is determined according to the traditional calendar of China. Rabbits in the zodiac correspond 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. The Year of the Rabbit is counted from beginning of spring in the twenty-four solar terms, because the year of the Zodiac is attached to the year of the dry branch, which is the year method of the dry branch calendar and the official almanac of past dynasties. 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.

Main branch calendar

The trunk calendar, also known as ephemeris and Jiazi calendar, is an ancient calendar that marks the year, month and day with 60 different groups of heavenly stems and earthly branches. Ganzhi calendar has a long history, extensive and profound, and contains profound cosmic astrological codes. The trunk calendar is mainly composed of four parts: trunk calendar year, trunk calendar month, trunk calendar day and trunk duration. From beginning of spring to the next beginning of spring, it is one year old, beginning of spring is the beginning of the year, and the solar term is the beginning of the month.

Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches are collocated in turn to form sixty basic units and a sixty-week calendar; December and twenty-four solar terms are its basic contents. The calendar divides one year into December buildings, representing the direction of the top of the bucket handle of the Big Dipper. Twenty-four solar terms and December construction are the basic contents of the dry calendar.