What's so particular about leap month?

1, women drink leap moon tea; Wuyishan area has the custom of drinking tea in leap moon, and mainly women drink tea, men can't participate, and 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", offering tea to each other and chatting while drinking can play a role in harmonizing feelings and promoting harmony in the neighborhood. 2. Pig's trotters and noodles for mothers In this area, there is a custom in leap months: married daughters need to buy a pair of pig's trotters and noodles for their parents, usually two former pig's trotters and six noodles, tied with red silk thread and spring flowers. 3. Avoid moving graves In some areas, there is a custom of avoiding moving graves in leap months. It is said that leap month is an extra month. In this month, the gates of hell will not be opened, and people who die in leap months will be buried until next month. 4, send parents leap moon shoes: leap moon shoes, leap moon wear, leap moon elderly live 1000. In some local folk customs, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay their parenting and pray for their parents' health and safety. In some areas, it is a leap month year, and married daughters have to buy shoes for their mothers.

Leaping month is a way of calendar leap. The position of the lunar leap month is completely artificial from ancient times to the present, and the position of the leap month is different in different calendars of past dynasties. When ancient astronomers compiled the lunar calendar, in order to make any day in a month contain the meaning of the moon phase, that is, the first day is a moonless night and the fifteenth day is a full moon, so the first day is mainly the first month. At the same time, considering the season, they adopted the method of seven leaps in nineteen years: in the nineteenth year of the lunar calendar, there are twelve ordinary years and one ordinary year has twelve months; There are seven leap years and each leap year has thirteen months.