What do December and winter months mean?

The difference between winter and twelfth lunar month is that winter refers to November of the lunar calendar and twelfth lunar month refers to December of the lunar calendar. 1 1 month in the lunar calendar is called "winter month", also called "sub-month" and "Jiazi". In December of the lunar calendar, the Han people are also called "twelfth lunar month". It is called "twelfth lunar month" because "La" is the name of "offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods" in ancient times, and there is a saying that "three sacrifices are made to the gods after the winter solstice".

When there is no leap month in a year, the 1 1 month in the lunar calendar is the first 1 1 month in a year. Because it is the winter solstice month in the 24 solar terms, the 1 1 month in the lunar calendar is also called the winter month, and it is also called midwinter and mid-winter.

According to the China lunar calendar, the solar term from winter solstice must appear in 1 1 month. If there is an error in the operation, it should be adjusted by the setting of leap month. According to "Historical Records", "The best way for the Yellow Emperor to get a treasure tripod is to be strong in old age, to win the winter solstice, to win the discipline of heaven and to start all over again." That is to say, in the Yellow Emperor, the winter solstice was regarded as New Year's Day (new moon), and the November of the lunar calendar was also called the winter moon.

December of the lunar calendar is also called twelfth lunar month, also called twelfth lunar month. There are many Han folk activities in the twelfth lunar month. This title has little to do with natural seasons, but mainly with the 20-year-old sacrifice. The so-called "wax" was originally the name of sacrifice at the end of the year. Han Yingshao's "Customs" says that "Jia Ping, Qing Si, Zhou uses big wax, and Han changes big wax.

Those who wax and hunt say that they hunt to sacrifice their ancestors. "or:" wax, then, make new friends, so the big sacrifice is also a reward. "Whether it is to sacrifice animals to ancestors after hunting or to sacrifice gods because of the alternation of old and new, it is necessary to engage in sacrificial activities anyway, so the twelfth lunar month is a sacrificial month.