What's so particular about leap years?
1, women drink leap moon tea
In Wuyishan, there is a local custom of drinking tea in leap month. Women mainly drink tea, and most men cannot participate. Only women are eligible to attend the party. Generally, the peasant women in the village take turns to hold a banquet and invite the female guests nearby to sit down. Replacing wine with tea at tea banquets, offering tea to each other and chatting while drinking can also enhance the harmonious relationship between neighbors.
2. Send mom trotters and noodles.
For example, in Taiwan Province Province, if there is a leap moon and there is a married daughter at home, we should buy a pair of pig feet and noodles for our mother to eat. Generally, there are two front pig feet and six faces, and red silk thread and spring flowers are tied on the faces, which represents auspiciousness.
3, avoid moving the grave
There is a custom in other places where leap months occur, that is, it is forbidden to move graves. It is said that the gates of hell are closed in this extra leap month, and all those who die in the leap month will be postponed until next month.
4, send parents leap moon shoes
There are also some places to buy shoes and clothes for parents in leap months. As the saying goes, the leap moon wears shoes and clothes, and the old man lives for a thousand years. This custom is to repay the parents' kindness and pray for their good health, peace and longevity. But in some places, every leap month, married daughters have to buy a pair of shoes for their mothers.
5. Go back to your mother's house for a leap moon meal.
However, it is a custom to eat leap moon meals. Every leap month, the bride's family will invite her married daughter home for dinner. Parents are usually invited if they are still alive. If their parents are no longer alive, they must be invited by their brothers.