What is leap April?
In the China lunar calendar, a year with a leap month is called a leap month year. The lunar year is usually 12 months, 354 or 355 days, and only a few years have only 353 days (for example, 1965). The leap month year is 13 months, which is 384 days in general, 383 days in some years and 385 days in very few years (such as 2006). As a kind of lunar calendar, the number of days in each month depends on the monthly loss, and the time of one year is based on 12 months. In order to close the earth's cycle around the sun, that is, the tropic year, one month is added every two to three years, and the added month is a leap month, so the leap year of the lunar calendar is 13 months.
There is no thirteenth month in the lunar calendar. According to the calendar rules, leap months are repeated from February to the same month after 10, and the repeated months are leap months. For example, the leap month after April is called leap April. Around 2 1 century, leap April is a common leap month, which usually occurs once every 8 years or 1 1 year, and once every 38 years at the longest, and the frequency is second only to leap May. However, the law is not static. As time goes on, the frequency of leap April is gradually decreasing. Besides, the latest year, Dragon Boat Festival, is usually in April.
What are the taboos in leap April?
Women drink Runyue 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.
Songmuzi pork knuckle and noodles xian
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.
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.