As a traditional Chinese calendar, the compilation of the lunar calendar is based on the changes in the waxing and waning of the moon. The first day of the month is the New Year's Day, which is the darkest day of the Moon. From the new day to the next new day, it is about 2953 days, which is why some months have 30 days and some months have 29 days.
The wax moon, as the final month of the year, is also the last month of winter, and its last day is Chinese New Year's Eve, which is often called the Chinese New Year's Eve. This day is an extremely important festival for Chinese, which symbolizes family reunion, ancestor worship, farewell to the old and welcome the new.
However, sometimes we find that the month of La is only 29 days long, and there is no Chinese New Year's Eve. What is the reason behind this? This involves the leap year pattern of the lunar calendar. In order to ensure that the year of the lunar calendar is consistent with the seasons and the position of the sun, the large and small months of the lunar calendar are not fixed. Sometimes there are successive small or large months. Moreover, the year of the lunar calendar is not a fixed 12 months, but every 19 years there are 7 leap years, 13 months in leap years, and 12 months in ordinary years.
From 2025 to 2029, the wax moon for five consecutive years is a small month, so Chinese New Year's Eve is the twenty-ninth of the big year. This situation is not uncommon, and 2013, 2016, and 2022 will not have the Chinese New Year's Eve.
As an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the history of the lunar calendar can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty and has a history of more than 4,000 years. It is not only a calendar tool, but also the embodiment of the Chinese's observation and understanding of the laws of nature, and the crystallization of the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese.
The calendar of the lunar calendar contains rich cultural elements, such as solar terms, zodiac signs, and stem branches. The solar terms are 24 ancient Chinese festivals based on the position of the sun on the ecliptic, which reflect the changes of the seasons and the arrangement of agricultural activities. The zodiac is a method of using 12 animals to represent the year, and each animal has its own unique meaning in a cycle of 12 years. The stem branch is a method of using 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches to represent the year, month, day, and hour, with a cycle every 60 years, and each combination has its own unique meaning.
Although the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar are two different calendars, their years and months do not correspond exactly. The Gregorian calendar is compiled according to the Earth's orbital cycle around the Sun, with a fixed year of 365 or 366 days and a month of 28 to 31 days. The origin of the internationally used Gregorian calendar can be traced back to the Julian calendar of the Roman Empire, and later reformed by Pope Gregory XIII to form the current Gregorian calendar.
If you want to know more about the conversion relationship between the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar, you can consult professional books or**, you can also use some **conversion tools such as Bing's lunar calendar converter to query the correspondence between the lunar calendar and the Gregorian calendar in any year, and you can also check the solar terms, zodiac, stem and branch information of the lunar calendar.
Lunar New Year is our festival, our roots, and our souls. No matter how time changes, no matter how the environment changes, we will never forget it, we will cherish it, and we will pass it on. Always full of warmth, full of joy, full of hope.