Why buy shoes in February?

Leaping moon shoes are a folk custom in some areas of China. According to the folk saying, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents in the leap month of the lunar calendar to repay their parents' kindness and ensure the health and safety of their children, and these shoes must be worn in the previous month to be effective. In some areas of our country, married daughters buy a pair of shoes for their mothers every leap month. There is also a saying that it is a tradition of the Chinese nation to honor the elderly. In the past, people were too poor to wear shoes and worked barefoot, which caused their feet to bleed. A wanderer from a foreign land went home for a reunion in a leap month and bought a pair of cloth shoes for the old man to show filial piety.

Leap February appears because the month after February of the lunar calendar only has the solar term "Qingming", and the neutral "Grain Rain" after Qingming falls to the next month. Therefore, the month without neutral gas appears after February. Therefore, the month after February, which is not neutral, is named "leap February" after February.

LeapMonth is a way to set a leap in a calendar. 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.