What does it mean to buy shoes for parents in February?

Buying shoes for parents in leap February means wearing shoes in leap month, and the elderly in leap month live for thousands of years.

Buying shoes for parents in leap February means buying a pair of shoes for the elderly at home in leap month, so that the elderly can wear them in leap month and make them healthy. It is certainly an exaggeration to say that old people can live for a thousand years. It contains a good wish. In fact, the original intention of leap moon shoes is to hope that parents will be safe, healthy and live a long life.

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.

There is also a saying that people in the old society had a low level of education and did not understand scientific knowledge. They think it's amazing to spend more than a year and a month. They are afraid that it will be bad for their elders, so they buy leap-moon shoes to "ward off evil".

Other sayings of leap February

1, women drink leap moon tea

In Wuyishan area, there is a custom of drinking tea in leap month, and mainly women drink tea, 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.

2, two spring and one winter, ten cowsheds and nine empty.

"Two spring and one winter" refers to two solar terms in beginning of spring, with a winter in the middle. "Ten cowpeas and nine empty cowpeas" means that the number of cattle will be greatly reduced. In fact, cows with high cold resistance will freeze to death because of the extremely cold weather. Of course, this is also an exaggeration, meaning that the weather is very cold.

3, double spring leap in February, cold spring meets autumn drought.

There is a proverb in agriculture that "February is full of spring, spring is cold and autumn is dry". Leap February and double spring years, if it is double spring year and leap February year, then spring is cold and autumn is dry.