What are the taboos of leap year and leap month?

Lead: The leap month appears because the lunar calendar will increase by one month every two to three years to coordinate the differences between the tropic year and the lunar calendar. Leap year is a phenomenon of Gregorian calendar. Because our country uses Gregorian calendar and lunar calendar together, in some years, leap month and leap year will appear together. So what is the focus of leap month in leap year? Let's take a look at the taboos of leap year and leap month!

What are the taboos of leap year and leap month?

However, there are no taboos in the leap year of the new calendar, so we should mainly pay attention to the leap month of the lunar calendar.

As the saying goes, double spring is a leap month and a good year for marriage. There is another saying in China: beginning of spring has the meaning of second spring twice, so it is not suitable for marriage.

For leap years, there is a common saying: "April is a year of famine;" June is not suitable for marriage (the year of widowhood); In August, the soldiers fell into chaos (commonly known as "killing the year"). "In the past, because leap month is an abnormal situation in ordinary years, people linked it with some abnormal phenomena in social life and came to some amazing common views, which is taboo.

In addition, there is a saying in the Central Plains that "October wheat should not be planted in leap years". In the northern region, it is forbidden to build houses, grow leeks and hatch geese and ducks in leap years. Otherwise, it will be bad for the owner's health and career.

However, the taboo of leap year and leap month varies from place to place, so there is no unification.

What's the difference between leap year and leap month?

The difference between leap year and leap month: leap year is the term of Gregorian calendar, and leap month is the term of China lunar calendar. Sometimes, leap month also refers to the month that includes leap day in leap year of Gregorian calendar (that is, February of leap year of Gregorian calendar).

1, leap year: Gregorian calendar stipulates that every 400 years, 97 leap years, and the year that does not meet every hundred years can be evenly divided by 4, which is a leap year, and February this year is 29 days; February in other years is 28 days. Except for February, there is no difference between the days of a normal year and a leap year.

2. Leaping moon is a term of China lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is the lunar calendar, so we should give consideration to both the moon and the sun. Since 15 or 16 is a full moon every month, each month is about 29.5 days, and it increases by one month every three years or so, so the length of lunar year and Gregorian year is consistent in the long-term average. The added month is called leap month. The leap month in the lunar calendar is probably the seventh leap month in nineteen years, which month is determined by the solar terms.

Reasons for leap year:

There are 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds in a year. However, the number of days in a year must be an integer, so a year is 365 days, and the remaining 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds accumulate to one day in April. Therefore, one day is added every four years, which is called "leap year". A year without leap days is called "normal year", a normal year is 365 days and a leap year is 366 days.

Reasons for leap month:

The lunar calendar is based on the new moon. The time of the first month is 29.5 days, and the time of 12 is 354 days. Compared with the tropical year of the solar calendar, the difference is about 1 1 day, so there will be 33 days more every three years, that is, one month more. In order to eliminate the extra days, one month is added every three years, which is the leap month of the lunar calendar. A year with a leap month is called a leap year, so the leap year in the lunar calendar has 13 months.