Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What's the nickname for December?

What's the nickname for December?

December is another name for the end of December.

As far as "La" is concerned, there are records of "Roufu" and "Vera" as early as Zhouyi and Zhouli. The original meaning of "wax" is "dry meat"

The end of December has many names, the most familiar of which is the nickname "twelfth month" This month's weather is most suitable for air-drying bacon, so it is called "twelfth lunar month".

At the end of the year,1February is a month with more sacrifices, because it is in the transition period of the old and the new. As early as the pre-Qin period, it was convenient for some places in China to hold "year-end sacrifices" in this new and old alternate month. Because there are nicknames such as "twelfth month" and "winter" in December, the sacrifices held this month are called "La Worship".