What does it mean to have two springs in a year?
1. beginning of spring is a very important solar term for China people. It is not only the first of the 24 solar terms, but also represents the beginning of spring. Meanwhile, in ancient times, beginning of spring was the beginning of the Spring Festival. After the Republic of China, the first day of the first month was regarded as the beginning of the Spring Festival. In the past, the Spring Festival began on the day when the spring solar term began.
Secondly, there are indeed two solar terms in beginning of spring in 2023, because the lunar calendar in 2023 is 65438+2023122 to February 9, 2024, and a calendar has 384 days. The reason is that there are 13 months in the lunar calendar this year, and there is an extra leap February.
Generally speaking, a year starts from the solar term in beginning of spring and ends at the solar term in beginning of spring. Therefore, in a normal year, beginning of spring is a solar term every year. In fact, from the Gregorian calendar, it is true. Beginning of spring is a solar term every year, with 24 solar terms appearing once.
4. Then why are there two beginning of spring in the lunar calendar? In fact, this is the result of the "yin-yang error" between the traditional lunar calendar and the solar calendar in China. Because in ancient times, calendars were varied, among which lunar calendars and solar calendars were the most common.
5. In the past, many people in rural areas deliberately chose the year of double spring when they got married, because there was a folk saying that "double spring is a good time to get married", and even some areas thought that the crops in double spring were good, such as the agricultural proverb "One winter in Er Quan turns loess into gold" and so on.