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Year of the Bunny

癸卯兔年-水兔-黑兔 Year of the Water Rabbit
根据天干地支推算出，2023年属于癸卯年，癸属水，卯为兔，故有了“水兔年”的说法。同时，在五行当中，白色-金、青色-木、黑色-水、红色-火、黄色-土，因此，“水兔年”也被唤作“黑兔年”。

Rabbit, Hare

Rabbit and Hare are two species in the same family.

Get to know Rabbit:
• The large = Flemish Giant （up to 13kg）
• The small = Netherland dwarf rabbit (between 0.5 – 1.13kg)
• A baby rabbit is called a kit/kittens, a female is called a doe and a male is called a buck.
• Rabbits are very social creatures that live in groups. They live in warrens – a series of tunnels and rooms that they dig underground.
• Their teeth NEVER stop growing! Instead they’re gradually worn down as the rabbit chews on grasses, wildflowers and vegetables – meaning they never get too long

Rabbit symbolism
Rabbits almost always symbolize prosperity, abundance, good luck, and fertility.
1. In most European cultures, rabbits are springtime animals, symbolic of fruitfulness and renewal.
2. The connection between rabbits and spring is also found in Japanese culture.
3. Rabbits are the luckiest of the Zodiac animals in China, according to Chinese astrology, rabbits are predicted to be gentle, quiet, elegant, and alert as well as quick, skillful, kind, patient, and very responsible, faithful .
4. In the U.S., rabbits are symbolic of cleverness, devotion to self-improvement, and good luck. But they are primarily seen as trickster animals by Native American cultures.
5. Many Central American peoples see rabbits as symbols of fertility, Aztec mythology associates rabbits with drunkenness and promiscuity.

Terms of endearment

Honey bunny
Snuggle bunny
Dust bunny
Gym bunny
Snow bunny
Beach bunny


Idioms related to bunny


Rabbit food
Breed like rabbits
Pull a rabbit out of the hat
pull a rabbit out of (one's)/the hat
Down the rabbit hole
As mad as a March hare

Famous rabbits in arts

Alice in Wonderland（The White Rabbit） 【爱丽丝梦游仙境】里的白兔先生

Peter Rabbit 【彼得兔】
Bambi (Thumper) 【小鹿斑比】里头的Thumper

Bugs Bunny 【兔八哥】
Zootopia （Judy Hopps）【疯狂动物城】里头的兔子朱迪

和兔兔有关的成语
发奋强，扬眉气，飞猛进，前似锦
辞旧岁，跃新程