What month is the twelfth month?

The twelfth lunar month in 2023 is 65438+1October 22nd.

From the perspective of the lunar calendar, burial, sacrifice, burial, grave repair, clothing removal, undressing, monument erection, ground breaking and grave removal are all appropriate, and other things are avoided.

December of the lunar calendar is also called twelfth lunar month, also called wax moon. 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. Whether it is to sacrifice animals to ancestors after hunting or to sacrifice gods because of the alternation of the old and the new, it is necessary to engage in sacrificial activities anyway, so the twelfth lunar month is the month of sacrifice.

December of the lunar calendar is the end of the year, which is in the cold winter. At this time, the winter field has passed, so there is a saying of "winter leisure" and "leisure" in farming, but the pace of people's life has not slowed down, and people have accelerated the pace of marching into the Spring Festival with a cheerful and eager mood. Therefore, the twelfth lunar month has become a prelude to the Spring Festival.

Traditional festival customs in December of the lunar calendar

1, the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family will not get sick.

2. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, eat Laba.

3. On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, catch the temple fair.

4, the twelfth lunar month, a small year, offering sacrifices to the kitchen god.

5, the twelfth lunar month, sweeping the house.

6. On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, eat tofu and put up windows.

7. On the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, kill pigs and cut meat for the new year.

8, the twelfth lunar month, catch up with the big episode.

9. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, make cakes and mix dough.

On 10, on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, alcohol is needed to make steamed bread for ancestor worship.

1 1, Lunar New Year's Eve.