China has more than 5,000 years of history and culture, many cultures have been passed down to the present day by posterity, such as colloquialisms, as a treasure of cultural tradition, is the common people with their own practical experience accumulated to make reference for future generations, are the crystallization of wisdom, colloquialisms are also divided into many forms, some are describing small things in life, some are rural building feng shui, and some are about education, these sayings are particularly easy to understand, and it is easy to remember, just like today's saying: leap seven is not leap eight, leap eight is over the knife kill, What does this sentence mean? Why can't you leap August?
Then we have to talk about what is the leap month, there are three calendars in China, namely the lunar calendar, the solar calendar, and the lunar calendar, the solar calendar is common in the world, it is calculated according to the earth's orbit around the sun for a week, a month is 30 days, 31 days, the lunar calendar is calculated according to the moon's profit and loss, 29 days a month, 30 days, although the difference between the two is 1 day, but there is a difference of 11 days in a year, so the lunar calendar is 354 days, the solar calendar is 365 days, what about the difference of these 11 days? There was a leap month, and there was this saying that we are going to say today.
And this saying is that there will be natural disasters in leap July, and leap August will be even more miserable, there will be wars, don't think this sentence sounds very exaggerated, is feudal superstition, this is from a historical point of view, it still makes sense, ancient is an agrarian society, people have to rely on god for planting land and harvesting, if natural disasters are serious, then there is no food, people can only go hungry, sooner or later they will rebel, so this will link the two together.
Why leap August is said to be a disaster, it is also summed up through practical experience, just like it is recorded in history, for example, in 1851, the Jintian Uprising occurred, which finally led to the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in 1900, there was the Eight-Nation Alliance Invasion of China, and in 1976, there was the Tangshan Earthquake.
And leap August is still often appearing, every 19 years will appear once, but leap September is really rare, 7 of the 19 years will appear leap month, but these 7 years of leap September situation is very rare, so the folk appear this saying: leap nine is not good, here is not the meaning of the above, but those who are high above, in the "I Ching" there is a learning, there is a nine on the top: Kang Long, this means that doing things is easy to regret, Therefore, the shangjiu here is related to the leap nine.
Leap September is very bad for people who are high, but it is not so for ordinary people, but these sayings have no scientific basis, just the topic of people's casual conversation, what taboo is there for leap months, people who believe, people who do not believe do not believe, and this year's leap month in 2020 is April, do you understand this?