Why does leap month buy shoes?

Leaping moon shoes are a folk custom in China. Every leap month in the lunar calendar, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay their parenting and make their parents healthy and safe. In some areas, every leap month, married daughters have to buy a pair of shoes for their mothers. Leap moon shoes must be worn in the previous month to be effective.

In the leap May of the lunar calendar in 2009, savvy merchants played "filial piety cards" and "warmth cards" in advance to win people's hearts, and women's shoes were sold everywhere.

"Leap-moon shoes are worn in leap months, and the elderly in leap months live 1000 years old." According to the folk saying, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents, in order to repay the kindness of parenting and make their parents healthy and safe.

There is also a saying that filial piety to the elderly is a tradition of the Chinese nation. In the past, people were poor, had no shoes to wear, and worked barefoot, resulting in bleeding feet. A wanderer from other places bought a pair of cloth shoes for the old man to show his filial piety when he went home for reunion in leap month.