I’ve summarized the date of the leap month in 2023 and what a leap month is. I’ve heard the word leap month a lot, but I was curious about what it meant and whether it was related to choosing a day.
When is the leap month date in 2023?
First, I checked the date of the leap month in 2023. The most accurate way to determine if there is a leap month and when it falls is easy to check the lunar date on the calendar. In the leap month, ‘Yun’ is written instead of ‘Yin’ in the lunar calendar.
March 2023
April 2023
Here is a summary of the leap year dates for 2023:
Leap month dates in 2023: March 22 to April 19 (total of 29 days) 2023년 윤달
What is a leap month?
If you look at the calendar, you can see that after the end of the second lunar month (Yin 2.30), the second leap month (Jun 2.1) begins. It is said that there are two lunar months. In this way, the leap month is a concept related to the ‘lunar calendar’. 좋은뉴스
A leap month is a month created to eliminate the difference between the calculated date (lunar calendar) and the actual season.
The lunar calendar is a period of one month from the previous moon to the next old moon. It is said that the 29th and 30th days are alternately written because the average of 29.53 days per month in the lunar calendar does not fall exactly.
All the days of the 12 lunar months add up to 354 days. It is about 11 days shorter each year than the solar date, which is based on the movement of the sun.
After three years, the lunar date is about a month different from the solar date, so the lunar date and the season are greatly different. The difference will only get bigger as time goes on. So, to eliminate this difference, an extra month, called an intercalary month, was added.
The leap month is a concept to eliminate the difference between the solar and lunar calendars.
In other words, it is said that an intercalary month was added every 2-3 years to the lunar calendar so that the difference between the solar and lunar calendars would not widen too much. Because of the concept of adding a month like this, it is said that it was considered a month that received a leap month as a bonus.
Leap months come every 2-3 years and are said to occur 7 times in 19 years. It is said that leap May is the most common, followed by leap April and leap March. The year 2023 will be a leap month. As seen in the calendar above, the leap month starts right after the normal month.
Can I get married, give birth, or move in a leap month?
It is said that the leap month was regarded as a month that did not get negative, because it was thought to be a month that was created as a bonus. It is said that in the past, it was believed that the gods were not active during leap months, so no matter what they did, there would be no problem. Like Handless Day, a leap month is known as a month in which neither gods nor demons are active throughout the month.
So, it is said that many graveyards were carried out during leap months. In addition, marriage, moving, and childbirth were not problematic, and were considered good. I don’t know what happened recently, but there are people who say that you shouldn’t get married in a leap month because it was interpreted in the opposite way.
There is a saying that the expected date of delivery should be set in a flat month to avoid leap months. This seems to be because, rather than a superstitious meaning, it takes too long for the birthday to come back when the birthday is calculated according to the lunar calendar if the leap month is the birthday.
Since there is no concept of a leap month in the solar calendar, it doesn’t matter, so if you consider the lunar birthday, it can be turned off. Unless it’s a lunar birthday issue, I don’t think there’s any need to avoid doing important things on leap months.