What does it mean for mom to eat fish and dad to eat toad?

According to folk custom, every year in the leap month of the lunar calendar, the married daughter will steam noodles and toads and send them to her parents' house. The fish here stands for "wealth" and the toad stands for "health". There is also a folk saying: "Mother eats fish, father eats toad, and lives for thousands of years."

So in leap month, sending noodles and toads to parents usually means that father eats noodles and mother eats noodles and fish, which means avoiding disaster and seeking peace.

In addition, there is another saying that the father is given a toad in the leap month, which means "no entanglement", that is, "no entanglement (toad)"; Leap moon sends noodles fish to mother, which means "good luck, long cotton (noodles) and balanced family (fish)."

What is a leap month? A leap month is a way to set a leap month in a calendar. In Asia (especially in China), leap month refers to the addition of one month every two to three years in order to coordinate the contradiction between the tropic year and the lunar year and prevent the tropic year from being out of touch with the four seasons.

Usually, leap months are set in three years, two years and seven years of the lunar calendar. Every month added in a leap year is called a leap month. Adding a leap month after one month is called leap month. For example, in 2020, the leap month of the Year of the Rat is added after April of the lunar calendar, so it is called leap April.