Is 202 1 a black year? What does Black Spring mean?

There are still some traditional folk sayings, including the Black Year, but many people are not very clear about it now. So 202 1 is a black year? What does Black Spring mean?

Why is 202 1 a black year?

202 1 is indeed a year of black spring, because the beginning of spring time of 202 1 is February 3, and the twelfth lunar month of 2020, but the Lunar New Year of 202 1 is February 12, so there is no beginning of spring in a year. At the end of the year, the New Year in 2022 is February 65438+. Therefore, beginning of spring did not exist in 202 1, so 202 1 was a veritable year of black spring.

What does the year of black spring mean?

The saying of the Black Year is a folk rumor. Because on February 4th every year in beginning of spring, in order to adapt to the changes of cold and heat, the ancients added seven leap years every 19 years in the lunar calendar, that is, seven years without beginning of spring, seven years with double beginning of spring and five years with single spring. It means Lunar New Year, and there are no solar terms in beginning of spring at the beginning and end of the year. Black Year is not so much a dialect vocabulary as a universal custom. Beginning of spring in the 24 solar terms must be familiar to everyone. If there is no beginning of spring in a lunar year, it is called a black year. The Sacrifice in the History of the Later Han Dynasty records the ceremony of welcoming the Spring in counties and cities: on the day of beginning of spring, outside Dongguo, everyone is green and welcomes the Spring. It means to let a boy wear a green scarf and Tsing Yi, first in Dongguo outfield. Spring is the season when everything revives. If there is no spring in a year, the ancients thought that there would be no so-called yang arrival. This year was named Widowhood Year, and later it gradually evolved among the people, becoming the so-called Black Year and Widowhood Year. Various rumors that black years are not suitable for marriage have also begun.