Taboo to buy shoes for mom in leap year

The taboo of buying shoes for mom in leap year is as follows:

"Leap-moon shoes are worn in leap months, and the elderly in leap months live 1000 years old." According to the folk saying, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents, in order to repay the kindness of parenting and make their parents healthy and safe.

Filial piety to the elderly is a tradition of the Chinese nation. In the past, people were so poor that they had no shoes to wear and worked barefoot, which caused their feet to bleed. A wanderer from a foreign land bought a pair of cloth shoes for the old man to show his filial piety when he went home for a reunion in the leap month. In some areas, during the leap month, his married daughter bought shoes for his mother and wished his parents a long life.

In fact, whether it is a leap month or not, don't forget your parents. The place where parents are called home. No matter how busy, children always go home to see their parents and spend more time with them.

Folk saying of leap February in 2023

In Wuyishan area, there is a custom of drinking tea in leap month, and the tea drinkers are mainly women, and men can't participate. Only women are qualified to sit at the table. The peasant women in the village took turns to hold a banquet for tea and invited female guests from nearby villages to sit at the table. Replacing wine with tea at a tea banquet can play a role in harmonizing feelings and promoting harmony in the neighborhood.

In some areas, it is a custom to avoid moving graves in leap months in leap years. It is said that leap month is an extra month, and the gates of hell will not open this month. People who die in leap months can't be buried until next month, what's more, it's impossible to bury their ancestors this month, so naturally they can't move their graves.

The frequency of leap February is second only to leap March, and the frequency of leap February is moderate around 2 1 century, generally once every 19 years (such as 2004 and 2023). Since then, the frequency of leap February has gradually decreased, becoming a rare leap month. Every century in the 25th-28th century has a leap February, but there is no leap February in the 29th-30th century, the 36th-38th century and the 40th-44th century.

Generally speaking, 2023 is called the Year of the Black Rabbit, because heavenly stems and earthly branches and five lines of gossip call this year the Year of Guimao, while Guishui is black, and He Miaomiao is a rabbit, collectively called "Black Rabbit", so 2023 is also called the Year of the Black Rabbit. Leaping in February is to coordinate the number of days between lunar year and solar year. In addition, some folk customs and sayings also need to be treated dialectically.