Another name and elegant name of lunar month

The nicknames of the lunar month and posthumous title are as follows:

The first month: end of the month, spring, horn month, early spring, February: apricot month, flower month, moon like, early spring, March: peach month, same month, ice month, March, Yangchun, late spring, April: silver moon, Yue Mei, Yuyue and Qinghe.

May: Liu Yue, Poisonous Moon, Puyue, June: Lianyue, Li Yue, Muyue, Fuyue, July: Blue Moon, Qiao Yue, Guayue, Xiangyue, Frosty Moon, Same Month, August: Gui Yue, Zhuangyue, Mid-Autumn Moon.

September: Gathering the Moon, Xuan Yue, October: Sunny Moon, Xiaoyangchun, November: Winter, Jiaxu, Ancient, December: December, Tuyue and Jiaxu.

Extension: The lunar calendar, that is, the current traditional calendar in China, belongs to the combined calendar of yin and yang, that is, the combined calendar of lunar calendar and solar calendar. According to the change cycle of the moon phases, each moon phase changes to one month, taking the tropical year of the sun as the length of a year, and adding 24 solar terms and setting leap months to make the average calendar year adapt to the tropical year. The combination of lunar calendar and solar calendar in lunar calendar forms the method of combining yin and yang. Because of the use of "Xia Zheng", it was called Li Xia in ancient times.

The current lunar calendar was renamed as "Summer Calendar" after 1970. Calculated by Purple Mountain Observatory of China Academy of Sciences, the national standard "Compilation and Promulgation of Lunar Calendar" was promulgated in 20 17. Using the new calendar, the years are divided into flat year and leap year, flat year 12 months and leap year 13 months. Month is divided into big month and small month, with 30 days in big month and 29 days in small month, and the average calendar month is equal to the full moon.

The lunar calendar is based on the moon's profit and loss cycle. A new moon lasts for one month, about 29.53 days, and the whole year is generally 354 or 355 days, which is less than 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar year (also known as tropic year and solar year) 1 1 day.