4hw.org: there are 59 days in June this year? What's the matter? Look at the calendar carefully. It turns out that the lunar calendar runs in June this year. This June will last until August 21 this year. The little partner with procrastination can delay another month! (this article is compiled by sihai.com, reprinted and noted the source, the original link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/)
On June 24, the lunar June of the year of Ding you chicken came, but this year's lunar June is a little special, because there is a 'leap June' behind it, and it will not end until August 21. The two June together have 59 days, and the whole year of chicken has 384 days.
Chinese traditional lunar calendar stipulates that there are 354 or 355 days in total in the 12 months of a year, which is about 11 days less than a return year. Therefore, there is a month less every three years, which naturally leads to the strange phenomenon of disorder of time sequence and time. Therefore, leap month is added.
The current method of intercalation in the lunar calendar is "seven Intercalations in 19 years", which increases by one month every 2-3 years. This is called "intercalation month", and the intercalation year in the lunar calendar has 13 months. (this article is edited and collated by sihai.com, reprinted and noted with source, original link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/)
Every ordinary lunar month must have a solar term and a medium atmosphere. The "leap month" is usually the month with only solar terms but no middle air, which is exactly the case in June of the year of the rooster. In the same month, there is only the solar term of "autumn start" on June 16, while Zhongqi "heat treatment" falls on the second day of the next month.
According to the astronomical calendar, the next lunar year with a leap month appears in 2020, the year of gengzi mouse, leap April. If you want to meet leap June again, you need to wait until 2025, the year of snake.