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Beginning of spring represents the beginning of the revival of all things, but why are there two beginning of spring in the Year of the Rat?

There are two beginning of spring in the Year of Rat, which is caused by the 384 days of the lunar calendar. This year's Year of the Rat coincides? Leap in April? Therefore, the time of the Lunar New Year has become longer, and two beginning of spring days, namely, beginning of spring on January 1 1 and beginning of spring on December 22nd, reappeared. This is also very common in the past history and has no special significance.

Is the Year of the Rat in China actually a year? Double spring year? That is to say, there are two beginning of spring in a year in the lunar calendar. What year did this happen? Double spring year? What will it become next year? Is there no spring? In fact, this is a wrong result. China calendar is the lunar calendar since ancient times, and it is accurately formulated by combining the cycles of the sun and the moon. But in fact, the difference between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar is about 1 1 day. In order to solve the time problem between the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, the ancients added leap months to solve this problem. So there are 13 months in a year. And this year is a double leap year of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Double beginning of spring? Not particularly strange, this is a change brought about by human adjustment.

Experts say that this is a very common calendar phenomenon. The date of spring in the solar calendar is basically determined. Every year on February 3-5 in the Gregorian calendar, but this year? Leap in April? There will be two beginning of spring in 384 days. Moreover, China has a vast territory and complicated geographical conditions. From the meteorological point of view, beginning of spring is not equal to entering spring. What is the beginning of spring? Four stands? 1. Reflect the changes of winter and spring seasons. Spring grows in summer and autumn harvests in winter. beginning of spring marks the end of winter when everything is hidden and begins to enter the warm and sunny spring. In nature, the most striking feature of beginning of spring is that everything is beginning to show signs of recovery. As far as beginning of spring is concerned, you can obviously feel the breath of early spring in the Tropic of Cancer (Huangchi Jiao Jiao) and its south. However, due to China's vast territory and large span from north to south, natural rhythms vary from place to place. The beginning of spring? For many areas, it is just a prelude to spring, and everything has not recovered yet, and it is still in the winter when everything is hidden.

As people engaged in agricultural production, they like beginning of spring to come early. Beginning of spring before the Spring Festival is called early spring, and beginning of spring after the Spring Festival is called late spring. As long as beginning of spring is early and beginning of autumn is late, it will be a bumper harvest year. For most people, everyone thinks that the Double Spring Festival is a very auspicious thing, so this time will be more suitable for weddings or building houses. In many places, beginning of spring has the custom of worshipping ancestors to celebrate the Spring Festival. On this day of spring, through ancestor worship, we can gain more in the coming year, and we hope it will be smooth sailing.