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What day is the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month?

The thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month is not a special day.

Generally speaking, there is no special custom on the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month, but on this day, everyone can make plans for the future China New Year. Keeping regular social activities, actively participating in family gatherings and taking proper responsibilities can help them keep in touch with the real world.

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is a small year.

Off-year is a traditional festival in China, also known as Lunar New Year Festival, Kitchen God Festival and Kitchen Festival. Folk activities in off-year mainly include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. China has a vast territory and different customs. Due to different customs, the days called "off-year" are also different. The 24th of the twelfth lunar month is the "off-year" in most parts of southern China, and the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is the "off-year" in most parts of northern China.

Off-year is usually regarded as the beginning of a busy year, which means that people begin to prepare new year's goods, sweep dust, offer sacrifices to stoves and so on. And prepare for a clean and beautiful year, which expresses people's good wishes to bid farewell to the old year, welcome the new year and welcome good luck. Sacrificial stoves have a history of thousands of years in China, which reflects the dream of China people to "eat enough and wear warm clothes".

Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Northeast Jiangxi and Taiwan Province Province call "the day before New Year's Eve" Lunar New Year's Eve, as opposed to "Lunar New Year's Eve". The fifteenth day of the first month is in Nanjing, New Year's Eve is in some minority areas in southwest and north, and the sixteenth day of the first month is in some areas of Yunnan.