What's so particular about leap month?

1, women drink leap moon tea; Wuyishan area has the custom of drinking tea in leap month, and mainly women drink tea, men can't participate, and only women are qualified to sit at the table. The peasant women in the village hosted a banquet in turn to entertain tea guests and invited female guests from nearby villages to sit at the table. Replacing wine with tea at a "tea banquet", offering tea to each other and chatting while drinking can play a role in reconciling feelings and promoting harmony in the neighborhood. 2. Pig's trotters and noodles for mothers In this area, there is a custom in leap months: a married daughter needs to buy a pair of pig's trotters and noodles for her mother's family, usually two former pig's trotters and six noodles tied with red silk thread and spring flowers. 3. Avoid moving graves In some areas, there is a custom of avoiding moving graves in leap months. It is said that leap month is an extra month. In this month, the gates of hell will not be opened, and those who died in the leap month will be buried until next month. 4, send parents leap-moon shoes: leap-moon shoes, leap-moon wear, leap-moon elderly live 1000. In some local folk customs, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay their parents' kindness and pray for their health and safety. In some areas, this is a leap month year, and married daughters must buy shoes for their mothers.

Leaping moon is a way of calendar leap. Since ancient times, the position of the leap month in the lunar calendar has been completely determined artificially, and the position of the leap month in different calendars of past dynasties is not the same. When ancient astronomers compiled the lunar calendar, in order to make any day in a month contain the meaning of the moon phase, that is, the first day is moonless night and the fifteenth day is full moon, so the first day is mainly the first moon. Considering the seasons and seasons, they adopted the method of seven leaps in nineteen years: in the nineteenth year of the lunar calendar, there are twelve normal years, which are twelve months in a normal year; There are seven leap years and each leap year has thirteen months.