The Year of the Rabbit, the Year of the Loong and so on. It is a special chronological method in ancient China, which is what we usually call the lunar calendar.

In China, according to the Zodiac-Rat-Ugly Cow-Silver Tiger-Hairy Rabbit-Chen Long-Four Shoots-Five Horses-Weiyang-Shenhou-You Chicken-Dog-Haizhu, the Zodiac cycle is repeated every 12 years. After the cat and rabbit comes Chen Long, so after the Year of the Rabbit comes the Year of the Loong.

The origin of the zodiac rabbit:

1, Wang Chong's "On Balance and Things" in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Yin, wood, its birds, tigers. Hey, Tuye, its birds and dogs are also. " Another cloud said, "Good afternoon, Ma Ye. Son, mouse also. Unitary, chicken also. ..... Shen, Qitian also. " * * * Put forward the names of the zodiac.

2. Zhao Yi, a famous textual research scientist in the Qing Dynasty, made a textual research in Yu Yu Congkao: "In the early days, the custom of virtue had no twelve characters, namely, son, ugliness, yin and hair, but when rats, cows, tigers and rabbits were divided into different ages, by the time of the Han Dynasty, (Khan) was used to fill five original places, and it was mixed with each other, and it was soaked and spread in China, so it was said to follow.