Is the off-year 65438+February 23rd or 65438+February 24th of the lunar calendar?

Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places, with the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month in most parts of the south. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month" and "the night before New Year's Eve" off-year, Nanjing calls it the Lantern Festival holiday on the 15th day of the first month, the 16th day of the first month in some parts of Yunnan, and New Year's Eve in some ethnic minority areas in the southwest and north.

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Off-year, not just a day, is called "off-year" because of local customs. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. Traditionally, the day of offering sacrifices to stoves is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In most parts of the south, the ancient tradition of celebrating the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is still maintained. Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also pay homage to the kitchen god, so most northern regions celebrate the off-year holiday on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Off-year also means that people begin to prepare for new year's goods and have a clean and good year, which indicates that the new year will have a new atmosphere and expresses the good wishes of the working people in our country to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

1. Most parts of the north: the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month-"Northern off-year". Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the royal family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also paid homage to the kitchen god, so most of the northern regions celebrated the Lunar New Year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

2. Most areas in the south: the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month-"folk traditional off-year". As early as the Song Dynasty, there was a record that "the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month passed the off-year holiday", and most areas in the south still maintain the ancient tradition of this day passing the off-year holiday.

3. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai: The day before New Year's Eve-"New Year's Eve", which is traditionally called "New Year's Eve" in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Accordingly, the night before New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve", and this day is also called "New Year's Eve". Historically, on the 24th night of the twelfth lunar month, Wu people call it the 24th night, which is the day to deliver the kitchen, because it is called the New Year's Eve.

4. Parts of Sichuan and Guizhou: New Year's Eve-"off-year". In some areas of southwest China, people will spend their off-year on New Year's Eve, and most of their off-year falls on the 14th or 15th of the first month.

5. Nanjing, Jiangsu and other places: the fifteenth day of the first month-"off-year". According to legend, after Judy, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, usurped power and seized power, people in Nanjing complained bitterly about his cruelty and tyranny. With the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, they missed the generosity of the last emperor, so the Lantern Festival became a small year in Nanjing.

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