Is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in 2020 a small year? What does off-year mean?

Is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in 2020 a small year?

According to the old almanac, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in 2020 is a small year, and it is also a small year in the north.

Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places, with the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in most parts of the south.

In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the night before the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and New Year's Eve is called off-year; In Nanjing, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is called off-year; In some places in Yunnan, off-year falls on the 16th day of the first month; In parts of the southwest and north, it is New Year's Eve.

What is the moral of the off-year holiday?

Off-year is usually considered as the beginning of a busy year, which means that people begin to prepare new year's goods, sweep dust and offer sacrifices to stoves. And prepare for a clean and beautiful year to express people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

Due to the different customs in different places, the days called off-year are also different.

In some places in modern China, it is said that there are three young officials, four boats and five boats. In other words, the official's off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the people's off-year is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the houseboat's off-year is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month.

The moral of the New Year is that the busyness before the Lunar New Year has begun, and people should start preparing new year's goods, sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves, which represents a kind of farewell to the old and welcome the new, welcoming auspiciousness and accepting blessings.

Twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month in 2020.

Lunar calendar: 20201February 23rd.

Gregorian calendar: Thursday, February 4th, 202 1 year, Aquarius.

Suitable for today (don't use it when the moon is broken)

Repair graves, fast and collect money, go to work to find heirs, and tear them down.

See a doctor, cook a stove, take medicine, take a boat and marry a son-in-law

Create a certificate

Today's taboo (don't use it when the moon breaks)

Travel in the market, seek wealth, build sacrifices and pray for funerals.

Move, break ground, drill, bury, collect, marry and enter.

Get the door off the ground and make a bed.

Build houses with columns for housing production, water release and livestock migration.

According to the comprehensive contents of the lunar calendar, since this day belongs to the day when the moon breaks, the 23rd lunar month in 2020 is unlucky.