The Spring Festival holiday arrangements for 2024 have been understood. The changes in the Spring Festival holiday in the new year are relatively large. This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is not a holiday, which is relatively rare in recent years. Many netizens have paid attention to this. The workday at the beginning of the year is like a prelude to the beginning of the year, and everyone is making the final sprint for this long-awaited holiday.
In China's traditional Xi customs, Chinese New Year's Eve is regarded as the beginning of the New Year and is an extremely important traditional festival. Families will always rush home at all costs to get together for Chinese New Year's Eve. In ancient times, even if the distance was long, people would try to rush back to their hometown before Chinese New Year's Eve, hoping to share a reunion meal with their families, symbolizing family reunion and happiness. However, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is no longer entitled to holiday benefits.
The Chinese New Year holiday is longer than usual, from 7 days to 8 days, which means that everyone can spend an extra day with their families. During this extra day, family members can spend more time together, or get together to make dumplings and cut window flowers, adding to the joyful atmosphere.
Also because this Chinese New Year's Eve holiday is safe and different from previous years. Some people describe this situation as an old folk saying, "It is rare to meet the spring in a hundred years, and it is rare to meet the leap month in a thousand years". What is this sentence talking about?Does the leap month exist, and will there be two New Year's holidays?Let's take a closer look.
This old saying is that in a long hundred years, there will rarely be a situation where the Spring Festival and the beginning of spring coincide, let alone two wax months a year. This situation is as rare as a rainbow in the sea.
Ai Zhen deliberately searched the perpetual calendar and found that in the past 100 years, there have been several times when the beginning of spring and the first day of the new year are on the same day. For example, in 1924, the first day of the first lunar month happened to be the beginning of spring, and in 1943, the 30th noon of the lunar month was also the beginning of spring. In the future, 2038 will also be the beginning of spring on the first day of the first lunar month.
In the past 100 years, there have been more than three "years of spring", which makes people sigh at this beautiful natural scene.
However, the occurrence of a leap month is extremely rare and can be described as a rare occurrence in a thousand years. There have only been two recorded leap months in human history, in 208 and 1574 A.D.
There will be no more intercalary moons for hundreds of years to come, and there will be no next intercalary moon until 3358, but we basically don't have a chance to see it.
Certainly, the first month of the leap month, like the leap month, is quite rare. Over the years, they have become a rare treasure.
Historically, we have discovered the existence of leap first month. As can be seen from the perpetual calendar, there was a leap month in the 17th century in 1640, and the next leap month was not until 2362 in the 23rd century. Such a rare situation makes people look forward to the opportunity to witness it with their own eyes. Maybe we will inevitably experience it in reincarnation, but at that time, who can not drink Meng Po soup and remember their past lives?
Why are leap months so common, occurring every few years, but leap months and wax months are so rare?The reason for this phenomenon is that leap months are usually determined according to the lunar calendar, and the cyclical nature of the lunar calendar leads to the occurrence of leap months. The reason why leap months and leap months are rare may be because they require more special climatic and geographical conditions to appear, which makes them rare in everyday life.
In ancient China, the calendar was extremely complex, involving a variety of calendars such as lunar, gregorian and lunar calendars. The reason for the occurrence of leap months is mainly due to the difference between the lunar and solar calendars.
The development of the lunar calendar is based on the change of the moon phase, which is about 29 in a month53 days, a year made up of 12 months, a total of 354 days. The Gregorian calendar, on the other hand, is based on the Earth's cycle around the Sun, with a return year of about 3652425 days. This is also why they are different.
There is a difference of about 11 days between the lunar and solar calendars, and in order to make the time more accurate and to avoid the misalignment of the four seasons, leap months were introduced. To compensate for this time difference, leap months are inserted into the lunar calendar.
Leap months occur to keep the lunar and solar calendars in sync. With leap years, the lunar calendar is no longer simply twelve months, but one more month.
What do we need to consider when determining the increase in leap months?Actually, the increase in this leap month is not unreasonable, it is set according to the 24 solar terms, and it is very wise to do so. The increase in leap months is not arbitrary, but carefully calculated and arranged.
The ancient calendar dictated that seven out of every 19 years had to be inserted into a leap month, and the leap month was determined by extrapolating whether the month had solar terms or not. Once it is calculated that there are no solar terms in a certain month, a leap month needs to be inserted to correct the calendar.
Zhongqi refers to the middle of each month of the lunar calendar, which happens to be between two adjacent solar terms. The 24 solar terms are an ancient Chinese way of recording time, showing a vivid picture of nature by depicting the changes in the natural world, and each solar term and mid-air represents a different season, climate, and natural phenomenon. Every time a solar term or mid-term arrives, everything on the earth will present a different scene, and these scenes are silently telling the rhythm and change of nature.
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, but takes on a slightly elliptical trajectory, like a slightly distorted waltz. As it revolves around the sun, it sometimes moves rapidly, sometimes slowly, changing its speed like a jump.
Around the time of the winter solstice, the sun moves faster, and the interval between solar terms becomes shorter, and the next solar term will be ushered in in less than 30 days. Around the summer solstice, the speed of the sun's movement slows down, and the time between solar terms is lengthened, and it may take more than 30 days to usher in the next solar term.
As a result, leap months are more likely to occur in the summer and rarely in the winter. In the lunar calendar, April, May, and June are the summer months and the most common time for leap months because of the length of the solar terms.
Winter in the lunar calendar is.
Ten, ten. January and December, because this time is often covered in silver, everything withers, and the cold wind is cold. Leap months are rare, so it is rare to see leap November, leap wax and first month. This may be due to the fact that the cold winter makes it seem as if time has frozen, and I don't want to add another month.
In our country's traditional Xi, the leap month is a place that some people are curious about. Generally speaking, when we encounter a leap month, we follow the principle of "do it right and don't do it", that is, the previous month is normal, and the next month is a leap month. For example, when you celebrate your birthday, you celebrate it in the first month.
Even people born in a leap month rarely have a chance to celebrate a leap month birthday. Therefore, even if there is a leap month, there can only be one Spring Festival, which is the Spring Festival of the first month, and the Spring Festival of the leap month will not be celebrated, and there will be no more holidays.
However, there is a peculiarity in that the leap month is different from other leap months in that it is a leap month rather than a new month. Chinese New Year's Eve is followed by the first day of the first lunar month, and the year of the leap month is another leap month after the first month, not immediately after the first day of the first month, so the leap month is still based on the first day of the first month, which means that it is a special leap month Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is also a night Chinese New Year's Eve.
In short, people cherish the appearance of the leap month, because such a moment is rare in a hundred years and a thousand years. Although the frequency of leap months and leap months is low, they are not inevitable. Expecting it is like welcoming a rare grand feast.
The emergence of the leap month is not only to make up for the time difference between the number of days of the year and the actual orbital cycle of the earth caused by the artificial calendar, this special arrangement not only reflects the important significance in daily life, but also carries a long traditional culture, just like a beautiful Chinese painting, flowing and inheriting in the long river of history.