What is the twelfth lunar month, such as twelfth lunar month 18, and what day is it today?

December of the lunar calendar is called "twelfth lunar month", and it was also called "twelfth lunar month" in ancient times. The twelfth lunar month 18 is 65438+ February 18 of the lunar calendar. There are many traditional folk activities during the twelfth lunar month. This title has little to do with natural seasons, but mainly with the sacrifice at the age of 20. The so-called "wax" was originally the name of the year-end sacrifice.

Ying Shao in the Han Dynasty said in "Customs": "Jia Pingwa, moss and Zhou used big wax, but Han changed it into wax. Those who wax and hunt say that they hunt in the fields to sacrifice their ancestors. " Or, "those waxes take over and hand over new and old things, so a big sacrifice is also a reward." Sacrifice activities should be held whether animals are sacrificed to ancestors after hunting or when the old and the new turn, so the twelfth lunar month is the month of sacrifice.

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As soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, the market suddenly flourished. This is a unique market in a year, called the twelfth lunar month. First of all, people who sell bacon (that is, bacon) and porridge fruits prepare for Laba, such as walnuts, dates, dried persimmons, chestnuts, dried water chestnut rice and various game and giant Buddha flowers. After the tenth day, I started selling door gods, hanging thousands of pieces, gold and silver foil, burning paper, window eyes, the percentage of heaven and earth and so on.

After twenty, selling honeydew melon, sugar cake, glutinous rice cake, Guandong sugar, grass fried beans and other things is to "sacrifice the stove". After the 25th, we sell sesame, oranges, pine and cypress branches and other things to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. The goods are dazzling and the price is relatively high. There is a saying in Beijing that "the soil and water in the twelfth lunar month are three points more expensive".