What is the meaning of 零一年? Pussy said to the Owl, &quot;You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?&quot;
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
In:

他们荡桨向前，船划了一年零一天,

零一天 means &quot;and a day&quot;
but I suspect, spoken in the 21st century, in

&quot;零一年，我去内蒙古的桦木沟拍摄，&quot;

零一年 means 2001. Or does it somehow mean &quot;a year ago&quot;??
As you can see '零一天' means 'and a day' is because there is a '一年' before it.

一年零一天 = one year and a day

二千零一年 = two thousand and one years

二零零一年 = the year 2001


'零一年' is shot for '二零零一年' (the year 2001),
You cannot reduce '二千零一年'  to '零一年', but you can reduce '二零零一年' to '零一年'. Just like we can shorten 1997 (the year) to 97, but can't shorten 1,997 (the number) to 97