What to buy for your parents in leap six months? What to buy for your mother in leap six months?

In our country, every leap year and leap month in the lunar calendar, there are always some special customs and habits, such as some items to ward off disasters and ward off evil spirits in leap years and leap months, which have attracted people's attention. So today’s Old Almanac will introduce to you what to buy for your parents in the leap six months of 2017, and what to buy for your mother in the leap six months of 2017.

"Leap moon shoes, worn in a leap month, the old man will live a thousand years in a leap month." Leap moon shoes are a folk custom in some areas of our country. According to folk saying, in a leap month in a leap year of the lunar calendar, children should be given Parents buy a pair of shoes to repay the kindness of nurturing and to wish them good health and safety. Moreover, these leap month shoes must be worn one month before to be effective.

In some areas of our country, during the leap month, a married daughter has to buy a pair of shoes for her mother. There is also a saying that giving shoes during the leap month is the tradition of the Chinese nation to honor the elderly. In the past, people were poor and had no shoes. Working on the feet causes them to bleed. When a foreigner returns home for a reunion during the leap month of a leap year, he buys a pair of cloth shoes for the old man to show his filial piety.

It is said that people in the old days were not highly educated and did not understand scientific knowledge. They thought it was evil to have an extra month in a year and were afraid that it would be detrimental to their elders. Therefore, it was said that during the leap month of a leap year, mothers would be given leap moon shoes. Also called "Liu Niang Shoes", they were all handmade in the past. On the outer corner of the heel, the mother's zodiac sign was embroidered with colorful floral threads to pray for the mother's safety. However, in modern times, people mostly buy them directly. Shoes given to mother.

There is also "Liu Niang Gao". "Liu Niang Gao" is a flower cake, which means that if your mother eats the flower cake, you can keep your mother this year. Flower cakes are steamed with flour. Each one weighs more than 1 kilogram. The diameter of the round flower cake is about seven or eight centimeters. Because there are 13 months in a leap year, 13 dates are placed in the middle of the flower cake, and flowers of different shapes are printed on it. .

In Yanggu, Shandong Province, during the leap month of a leap year, in addition to sending flowers and cakes to her mother, her daughter also sends fish to her father, and then buys a red belt for each of her parents. In Guan County, in addition to sending flower cakes and red belts to parents, aunts also send rice cake fish to their nephews. Nian Gao fish is fish-shaped rice cakes. It is popular in Shen County to give rice cakes to mothers over 60 years old, but not to young mothers.

The old customs about leap months are not limited to leap month shoes. For example, among the older generation of folk, there is a saying that leap July is not good for the daughter-in-law, so in some places there is a custom of mother-in-law giving gifts to daughter-in-law in leap July; It is said that leap five months is not good for sons-in-law, so in some places there is a custom of mother-in-law giving gifts to sons-in-law in leap five months.

In the Jianghuai area, every leap month in a leap year, married daughters have to make leap month socks, leap month shoes or clothes for their mothers. As the saying goes, "On seventy-three or eighty-four, the King of Hell will not ask him to go." It is said that the seventy-three or eighty-fourth year is the end of the tenth year, and the children feel that the old man will soon pass away, so they send some good things to the old man to eat while they are still alive to fulfill their filial piety.

In Fujian, there is a custom of "leap month meal", also called "six relatives meal", that is, every leap month in a leap year, parents and brothers must invite their daughters and sisters home to have dinner together. When the parents are alive, the parents will invite their married daughters home. If the parents are not alive, the brothers will invite the married sisters back for a "leap moon meal".