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Why is there a leap month? In what year does leap month occur?

Why is there a leap month? In what year does leap month occur?

Leap moon refers to a phenomenon in the lunar calendar. The lunar calendar arranges the big moon and the small moon, that is, the moon, according to the full and short moon. The length of a moon is 29.5306 days, which is the cycle of the moon's profit and loss. According to the lunar calendar, the big moon has 30 days and the small moon has 29 days, so there are 354 days in a year 12 months, while the lunar months have no seasonal significance, so twelve moons are formed. The length is 29.5306× 12=354.3672 days, which is less than 365.2422 days in tropical years 10.88 days (that is, near 1 1 day) and 0.9 1 day per month (near) In the solar calendar, the difference between one year and another is 1 1 day. Only after 17 years, the date of the lunar calendar will be reversed in the same season.

Why is there a leap month in the lunar calendar?

We often say that the Gregorian calendar takes the earth's revolution around the sun as a year, and the time is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.

On the other hand, in the lunar calendar, the moon revolves around the earth for one month for 29 and a half days.

The lunar calendar is mainly used by people in East Asia, and it is a traditional calendar of yin and yang. According to legend, it was created in the ancient Yellow Emperor era or Xia Dynasty, and the lunar calendar is also called the Yellow Calendar and Li Xia.

There are 30 days in a big month, 29 days in a small month, and only 354 or 355 days in a year. In this way, the year of the lunar calendar is about 1 1 day or less1day than the Gregorian calendar year that we often use. Therefore, in order to keep up with the changes of the four seasons, people will add a month after a certain period of time and call this month a leap month.

Since the western Gregorian calendar was used, the traditional calendars in China have been called old calendars or traditional calendars. Later, the western calendar was called the solar calendar, while the old calendar was called the lunar calendar.

The determination of leap month is actually mainly related to the 24 solar terms. The date of the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar is postponed month by month. In this way, it may happen that some months have a solar term at the end of the month and there is only one solar term next month. According to the lunar calendar, a leap month is arranged after this month. For example, on April 28th of the 1982 lunar calendar, there is only one solar term next month, and there will be a summer solstice next month. Therefore, arrange a leap month after April, which is called leap April.

Leap months occur every few years.

As the saying goes, "leap every three years, leap every five years", which means that there will be a leap month every two or three years in the Lunar New Year. There is a summary of "seven leaps in nineteen years" among the people.

Is the life born in a leap month good?

The so-called leap month is to increase the leap year by one month every year. The length of the lunar calendar is 29. 5306 days) is the average of one month, 65438+ February in the whole year, compared with the tropical year (365. 2422), the difference is about 10 and 2 1, so it is a leap, three years a month, five years two months, nineteen years seven months. Leap month is called "leap month" after a certain month, and the following leap month year is: 20 17 leap June; April 2020; February 2023; June 2025; May 2028; 203 1 leap March; Leap in winter in 2033; June 2036 leap.

There is a folk saying that people born in leap months have a hard life, which means that their birth date is very special, the core monument of their life is very strong, they are not easy to be punished, and they are suitable for growth. However, people who have a hard life may not have a good fate, but they are often hit by being too strong. People who are under great pressure in adversity will survive more easily. However, tough people in the core monument of life will be tough on people around them, so tough people sometimes feel lonely. Generally speaking, it is good to live hard, and you are naturally heroic and trustworthy.

Numerology experts pointed out that, first of all, the birth of leap month does have a certain impact on people's fortune, but it is not absolute. Because people's birth involves years, months, days and hours. Therefore, being born in a leap month is only a matter of "month". In the sense of numerology and psychology, the factors involved are only one aspect, which should be treated comprehensively, that is, comprehensive analysis and judgment should be made from the time, place and people at birth.

Secondly, people born in leap months do have their own characteristics, because the astronomical phenomena in leap months are different. Whether these characteristics are positive or negative, there is no general conclusion. Only when we put them in a specific date of birth can we draw a conclusion.

Finally, no matter which month they were born, they all have their own characteristics that cannot be ignored. These characteristics have both good fortune and shortcomings, and we need to treat them dialectically.