In February this year, there was a custom of buying shoes for parents in rural areas. Do you know what this means?

For leap month, the ancients thought it was special and always gave it special meaning or beautiful expectation.

First of all, what is a leap month?

Simply put, there are two identical lunar months in a year, and leap February means that there are two lunar February this year.

There are many sayings about leap month, among which "leap month shoes, leap month shoes, leap month old people live for thousands of years".

Therefore, every leap year and leap month, children should buy a pair of shoes for their parents to repay their parenting and pray for their parents' health and longevity.

There is also a saying that people in the old society had a low level of education and did not understand scientific knowledge. They think it's amazing to spend more than a year and a month. They are afraid that it will be bad for their elders, so they buy leap-moon shoes to "ward off evil".

In addition, there is a saying that it is a tradition of the Chinese nation to send "leap moon shoes" to the elderly. In the past, people were poor, had no shoes to wear, and worked barefoot, resulting in bleeding feet. A wanderer from a foreign land bought a pair of shoes for the old man to show his filial piety when he went home for reunion in leap month.

"leap month year, stay in mother's year", leap month shoes must be worn in the previous month to be effective. There is indeed an old custom of sending shoes around the Huaihe River to express filial piety and care for the elderly.

As the rural saying goes, "30 miles is different from customs, and 10 miles is different from rules". Because of China's vast territory, different regions have different customs, and even the same custom has different interpretations in different regions.

We just need to do as the Romans do. Today, we will pay attention to this special leap February and interesting things about leap moon shoes.

February is a very special month in a year, because there are only 28 days in February, and one day over four years is 29 days, and all other months are 30 days or 3 1 day.

In addition, only February can be divided into leap year and non-leap year. There are 366 days in a leap year, so February is 29 days, while the average year has 365 days, so February is 28 days.

There is also a folk saying that "February is full of spring, spring is cold and autumn is dry". Generally, it will be cold in spring and dry in autumn.

In a word, the change of the number of days in February and the beautiful season in beginning of spring all reflect the uniqueness of February, and everyone pays special attention to it. Buying "leap moon shoes" in leap February has become a representative of filial piety.

Buying shoes in leap February is very particular, especially in terms of time. Usually buy shoes in the month before leap February, that is, the month before, because according to traditional customs, leap months need to wear shoes to be lucky.

If you buy leap-moon shoes for your parents, you must buy them before February 1 and send them to your parents, so that you can wear them one month before February, which is effective.

In fact, from the third brother's point of view, the customs and proverbs handed down, whether in leap February, leap months or leap months, are guiding us to be more filial.

It is not easy for parents to support us. They have worked hard to raise us, and we should be filial to our parents until we are old. May we all be like this.

In short, in any case, these are all manifestations of filial piety. Of course, filial piety to parents can't be temporary, but should be done persistently during parents' lifetime.

Since leap February is a traditional custom in many areas, we might as well follow suit and make a good sign for our parents. Did you buy shoes for your parents in February this year?

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