Judgment method:
The Year of the Rabbit is the year when the AD number is divided by 12 and the remainder is 7.
The formula is: the number of years in AD ÷ 12 = a quotient, and the remainder is 7.
For example: 20 1 1 ÷ 12 = quotient 167, and the remainder is 7, then 20 1 1 is the year of the rabbit.
Note that the above is only a rough correspondence, because the Gregorian calendar and the elephant trunk calendar in China, which are widely used in the world, are two different calendars. Gregorian calendar starts from 65438+ 10/month 1, while lunar calendar starts from the date when beginning of spring built silver moon. Generally speaking, that day in beginning of spring is equivalent to February 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year.
Culture of the Year of Rabbit:
Rabbits often attend traditional festivals in China. In ancient times, on the first day of the first lunar month, rabbit heads were hung, and people put them on their foreheads with dough-kneaded rabbit heads and New Year banner masks to show evil and disaster. On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, rabbit lanterns should be tied up and made into the shape of rabbits with noodles or paper.
Before and after the Double Ninth Festival on September 9 every year, people will hold a party to eat rabbit meat, commonly known as eating frosted rabbits. In ancient times, moon cakes made on the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15 often had the image of rabbits. On the eve of the Spring Festival, rabbits often appear in paper-cutting and New Year pictures.
There is a pattern of "Jade Rabbit Making Cabbage" in the paper-cut culture of ancient window grilles in Shanxi, and there is such a metaphor in the local area that the jade rabbit is like a child and the cabbage is like an hundred philosophers. In the name of this design, a very common word "Noisy" implies an extremely ancient motif of Yue Bai and reproduction. The rabbit in the moon came to the earth, which is a metaphor for many children.