Why do you buy shoes for your parents during the leap month?

The reason why we buy shoes for our parents in a leap month is because there is a saying in the folk saying, "If you wear shoes in a leap month, the old man will live a thousand lives in a leap month." Buying shoes for your parents in a leap month has the meaning of praying for your parents to live longer.

Although many experts now have no accurate source of research on the idea of ??giving shoes during leap months and years. However, regarding this situation, people generally believe that every leap year is a troubled time. For the elderly, the older generation, there are many disadvantages. If the children can buy a pair of shoes for their parents at this time, they can allow their parents to "walk out" of this period safely.

Therefore, in many areas, there is also a saying that "leap month year, Liuniang year". In many places, people will buy shoes early before or at the beginning of a leap month. It is said that doing so can better pray for parents and prolong life.

Introduction to leap months

Leap months are a way of setting leap months in the 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 has also been different. When ancient astronomers compiled the lunar calendar, in order to make every day of the month contain the meaning of the moon phase, that is, the first day of the month was a moonless night, and the fifteenth day was a full moon. It mainly focuses on the synodic moon, taking into account the seasons, and adopts 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, and there are seven leap years, each of which lasts thirteen months. In Asia (especially China), a leap month refers to an additional month in the lunar calendar every two to three years. In order to coordinate the contradiction between the return year and the lunar year, and prevent the lunar year and month from being out of touch with the return year, that is, the four seasons, a leap is set every 2 to 3 years. In ancient times, leap weeks were used to set seven leap weeks in nineteen years. In the "Linder Calendar" of the Tang Dynasty, the fixed leap weeks were abolished and leap weeks were set in non-calendar months. Therefore, leap weeks are set at the leap time.