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What year is 20 13?
20 13 belongs to year of the snake.

20 13 (two days and thirty days), in the Gregorian calendar year, ***365 days. 52 weeks 1 day. The fourth year of the lunar calendar (year of the snake), there is no leap month, ***355 days. People's Republic of China (PRC)'s 64th anniversary. The lunar calendar starts and ends from February 20 13 to February 20 141October 30.

Year of the snake, the year of Qiuci. The sixth branch of the earth is a snake. The snake is one of the twelve zodiac signs, ranking sixth, after the dragon and before the horse. When the number of AD years is divided by 12, all the years with a remainder of 9 are year of the snake.

Snake culture

In ancient legends and myths, the ancestors of human beings, Fu and Nu Wa, were snakes with faces, and the intercourse of their two gods produced human beings. Among the unearthed tomb paintings, there is a picture of Fuxi and Nu Wa meeting with a snake face. China 1989, the first piece of T 135 "Silk Painting of Mawangdui Han Tomb" released in March, shows the image of "Tian" in the middle of the upper part of the sheetlet and a head snake god, which is said to be one of the ancestors of mankind.

According to legend, Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of China, was also a snake with a human face. Totem worship, as a primitive religion, still has far-reaching influence. Some ethnic minorities in China still have some reservations, and the worship of snakes is still the folk culture content of some ethnic minorities. There are also relics of offering sacrifices to the "domestic snake" among the Han people, saying that "domestic snake" is the manifestation of ancestors and should be offered sacrifices, and it still exists among the elderly in some areas (mainly rural areas and mountainous areas).