Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Is the off-year solar term?

Is the off-year solar term?

"Off-year" does not mean a festival, because the local customs call off-year festivals different. In most northern areas, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd/24th of the twelfth lunar month is called off-year. Many areas in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call it off-year. Many areas in China are also called off-year and some places are called off-year. Off-year also means that people begin to prepare new year's goods for a clean and beautiful year, which means that the new year should have a new atmosphere. It mainly includes three meanings: 1, which means that the twelfth lunar month is the year of off-year; 2. Festivals, twenty-three or twenty-four of the twelfth lunar month, and old customs to sacrifice stoves; It refers to a year when fruit trees and bamboo grow slowly.