What’s the significance of leap years?

1. Women drink tea during the leap month; there is a custom of drinking tea during the leap month in the Wuyi Mountain area, and it is mainly women who drink tea. Men are not allowed to participate, and only women are eligible to sit. When hosting a banquet and drinking tea, farm women from the village take turns hosting the party, and female guests from nearby villages are invited to the table. At the "tea banquet", tea is used instead of wine, tea is served to each other, and chatting while drinking can harmonize emotions and enhance neighborhood harmony. 2. Give your mother pig's feet and noodles. In the area, there is a custom in the leap month: a married daughter needs to buy a pair of pig's feet and noodles for her mother, usually two front pig's feet and six handfuls of noodles. The upper thread is tied with red silk thread and spring flowers. 3. Avoid moving graves in leap months. In some areas, there is a custom of not moving graves in leap months. It is said that a leap month is an extra month. During this month, the gate of hell cannot be closed. People who died in a leap month must not be buried until the next month. 4. Give your parents leap month shoes: Leap month shoes, wear them in leap month, the elderly will live to a thousand in leap month. "In the folk customs of some areas, during a leap month in a leap year, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay the kindness of nurturing and pray for their parents' health and safety. In some areas, during a leap month, a married daughter should buy shoes for her mother.< /p>

Leap months are a way of setting leap months in the lunar calendar. The placement of leap months in the lunar calendar has been completely artificial since ancient times. The placement of leap months in different calendars in the past dynasties was also different when compiling the lunar calendar. Any day in the month contains the meaning of the moon phase, that is, the first day of the lunar month is a moonless night, and the full moon is around the 15th day of the month. The synodic moon is the main one, taking into account the seasons, and using the method of seven leaps in nineteen years: In the 19 years of the lunar calendar, there are twelve ordinary years, each of which lasts twelve months; there are seven leap years, each of which lasts thirteen months.