What are the customs of leap year and leap month?

The custom of leap month year in various places

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. Send mom trotters and noodles.

In Taiwan Province Province, there is a custom in leap month: a married daughter needs to buy her mother a pair of trotters and noodles, usually two former trotters and six noodles with red silk thread and spring flowers tied on them.

3, avoid moving the grave

In some areas, it is a custom to avoid moving graves in leap months. It is said that the leap month is an extra month, and the gates of hell will not open in this month. People who die in leap months will be buried until next month.

4, send parents leap moon shoes

"Leap-moon shoes are worn in leap months, and the elderly in leap months live 1000 years old." In some local folk customs, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay the kindness of 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.

5. Go back to your mother's house for a leap moon meal.

"Leap Moon Rice" is also called "Six Parents Rice". Every year in the leap month of leap year, the bride's family will invite her married daughter home for dinner. Please when your parents are alive; If parents are not alive, brothers will invite them.

6. The bride's family gave her daughter an umbrella and a banana fan.

In some places, the bride's family will also send an umbrella and a banana fan to her daughter in leap month. It means that the bride's house is her daughter's umbrella. I wish her an early birth and make money for her husband's family.