The Year of the Rabbit handbill

The Year of the Rabbit handbill is as follows:

The Year of the Rabbit is counted from the first spring of the twenty-four seasons, because the Chinese zodiac year is dependent on the Stem and Branch Chronicle, which is the chronological method of the Stem and Branch Calendar. This has been the case for all official calendars (i.e., the Yellow Calendar) throughout the ages.

There is no dispute that the Lunar Calendar only borrows from the Stem and Branch Calendar, and that its year is from the first day of the first month of the lunar year to New Year's Eve. However, the lunar calendar and the calendar of stem and branch are two different calendars, which differ in the starting point of the year, the rules of dividing the months, and the number of days in a year. Because of the use of the Gregorian calendar after the Republic of China, many people, including a few so-called experts, lack knowledge of the calendar, so the two are often confused.

The Stem and Branch Calendar is a calendar that uses 60 different groups of heavenly stems and earthly branches to mark the year, month, day, and hour, and it is China's unique solar calendar. It starts the year with the beginning of spring and divides the twelve months into twenty-four seasons, each containing two seasons, with no leap months. The calendar is related to the cyclical movement of the earth around the sun, and it reflects the climatic changes of the seasons of the year.

Since ancient times, the Stem and Branch Calendar has been commonly recognized by both the official and private sectors, applied to the disciplines of astronomy, feng shui, numerology, selection techniques and Chinese medicine, and recorded in the official calendars (i.e., the yellow calendars) of successive dynasties.

Legend of the Rabbit:

The Jade Rabbit: The Moon. Legend has it that there is a white rabbit in the moon, so it is used as a synonym for the moon. Fu Xuan's "Proposed Heavenly Direction": "What is there in the moon, the white rabbit pounding medicine." Jia Dao's poem "Gift to Zen Master Zhilang": "The upper man sees it clearly, but the Jade Rabbit is not there at the bottom of the pool." Xin Qiji (辛弃疾), "Man Jiang Hong (满江红?). Mid-Autumn": "I want to climb the stairs to see the Jade Rabbit, who opened the curtain to cover the silver que" idiom "the golden bird falls in the west, the Jade Rabbit rises in the east" that is, from this industry, to see the golden bird.

Ancient myths and legends say that there is a white rabbit in the moon. It is called the rabbit in the moon. Also known as the moon rabbit. The Arts and Letters Classes Gathering, Volume 1, cited Han Liu Xiang, "The Five Classics": "What is the rabbit and toad in the moon? The moon, yin, toad, yang, and rabbit and bright, yin system yang." Arts and Letters Classes Gathering, Volume 1, cited in Jin. Fu Xian's "Proposed Heavenly Questions": "What is there in the moon? The white rabbit is a medicine."

Yu Diem "seat on the rotten talk" volume: "I say that the rabbit from the day, the so-called rabbit in the moon, the moon in the daylight is also ...... the secular world then said that the moon in the pounding medicine rabbit, delusion carry on." The moon rabbit also refers to the mythological story "Chang'e Runs to the Moon" in which a white rabbit soared with Chang'e to the Moon Palace. There are many references in ancient poems and texts, also borrowed to refer to the moon.