China has had its own calendar calculation a long time ago, that is, the "lunar calendar" that is still in use, also known as the "lunar calendar".
After the founding of New China, the official time was unified into the world-scale "Gregorian calendar", which is what we often call the "solar calendar".
These two timing methods are similar, but because there has always been a 1 to 2 months difference, many children can't understand what is going on.
For a child's birthday, should it be in the lunar or solar calendar?
Now we are generally accustomed to using the yang calendar to keep time, and only when the new year is approaching, we will say: "The twenty-eighth day of the waxing moon!" "Usually we rarely say the month of the lunar calendar.
Many older generations are accustomed to using the lunar calendar to time, especially in the matter of the birth of a child, seeking auspicious time, fortune telling, etc., and using the lunar calendar.
Using the yin calendar to calculate the birthday and birthday of the child does have some advantages, but at the same time there are some disadvantages, many people do not understand, which has a big doorway.
Parents calculate the birthday of their children, according to the lunar or solar calendar, to the child to report the false age or the first year?
The luni-solar calendar, the difference and connection between two different chronography methods
The Earth orbits the Sun for one week, counting as one year. The time of year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds. Among them, the number of full days is only counted in the ordinary year, and the rest of the time is made into a full day every four years, which becomes a leap year.
Different from the solar calendar calculation of solar activity through the earth, the lunar calendar is timed by the change of the moon's circle and deficiency, which is a unique chronological calendar in China.
As the saying goes, "Fifteen moons, sixteen rounds." "Using the lunar calendar to calculate the calendar is a tradition left over from thousands of years in China, and the wisdom of the ancients is also very worth passing on."
Giving your child a lunar birthday has some benefits
Many parents are accustomed to giving their children a lunar birthday, and there are indeed some benefits.
◆ Consolidate traditions
Traditional culture needs to take its essence to remove its dross and critically inherit it, and the calendar calculation of the lunar calendar is a point that shows the wisdom of the ancients in our country, and it is indeed worth passing on.
◆ Understand the solar terms
One of the things that makes the lunar calendar very powerful is that it corresponds very precisely to the solar terms.
As the saying goes: "Small snow fiefdoms, heavy snow seals the river." "There are also the longest days on the summer solstice and the shortest day on the winter solstice, and the natural laws unique to these lunar calendars are very interesting and worth exploring."
Giving the child only a lunar calendar may have some harm
Giving children more understanding of the lunar calendar is indeed a good way to learn and inherit traditional culture, but if you blindly only follow the lunar calendar birthday to your child, you may make your child dizzy.
★ Kids are blindfolded
Because there is a clear difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, if parents only give their children a lunar birthday, after a few years have passed, the child may not remember his solar calendar birthday at all.
Most parents who are accustomed to lunar birthdays like to use imaginary years to calculate the age of their children, so that children may not even know how old they are.
★ Influences communication
After the child enrolls in school, most of the students are using the solar calendar birthday, the first year, so that children who are accustomed to using the lunar calendar may mistakenly think that they are older than others, which is not only easy to lead to inferiority psychology, but also not conducive to the child's future interpersonal communication.
★ Formal occasions are in trouble
The above two problems may not be particularly serious, but if it is filled in the information for further education, or when the child is sick and sees a doctor, the wrong age may cause trouble.
Especially a lot of children's medicines are related to age, weight, the false age will be 1 to 2 years older, the dosage will be different, which may lead to more serious harm, parents should remember, take the child to see a doctor to use the solar calendar birthday to calculate the first year.