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What month is the lunar leap month in 2022?

2022 is a normal year of the lunar calendar, not a leap year, so there is no leap month.

In the year of the lunar calendar, there are two sayings: the average year is 365 days, and the leap year is one day longer than the average year, that is, 366 days. The time of leap year is also regular, generally there will be a leap year every three years. So is 2022 a leap year? Is 2022 a leap month year? What month is it now? In 2022, the Gregorian calendar is the Year of the Tiger, and there is no leap month, with a total of 365 days.

Why is there a leap month? One lunar month has an average of 29.5306 days, and the cumulative 12 lunar months is 354 days or 355 days, which is about 1 1 day different from the tropical year (about 365.25 days), and the cumulative three years has exceeded one month. The adjustment method is to arrange 13 months in some years, and there are two identical months, which is called "setting leap".

The rule of "setting leap" is formulated according to the 24 solar terms. In the lunar calendar, twelve neutral qi is used as a sign of twelve months, that is, every month has a certain neutral qi. In ancient times, there were different arrangements for leap months in the lunar calendar, but from the Han Dynasty, a leap method was gradually formed, which called the lifeless month the leap month of the previous month.