It's said that there is no beginning of spring in 2018, so it's commonly known as the year of widows. How does this title come from? Which is the year of widows in 2018 or 2019? Next, let's follow the small editor of sihai.com to learn about it.
What does widow's year mean? In the 12 months and 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar of a certain year, there is no solar term of "beginning of spring". Such a year is called widow's year. In the vernacular, that is to say, the solar term "spring start". Before the first day of the first month of this year and after the thirtieth day of the new year, for example, 2016 is the year of widows without spring start in the lunar calendar, and December 26, 2015 is the year of spring start, so 2016 is commonly known as the year of widows.
The year of widows, the so-called "dumb year", also known as "blind spring" and "widow year", means that there is no "spring start" in the whole year of the lunar calendar. Spring start appears at the end of the last December and the beginning of the next January, such as 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2010. There is no "spring start" in a year, that is, there is no sunshine coming. There is no Yang, there is no Yin. In man, without Yang, there is no match for men, and naturally there is a widow. The so-called year of widows comes from here.
Which year is the widow's year in 2018 and 2019? 2018 is the widow's year.
The 26th day of the twelfth lunar month in 2018 (Gregorian calendar: February 4, 2018) is the beginning of spring, which means that the alternation of the four seasons has been completed, that is to say, the beginning of the new year starts from this day; but the calendar we usually calculate the time is the lunar calendar, that is to say, according to our custom, after 12:00 p.m. (Gregorian calendar: February 19, 2018) on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2018 A new year is coming.
Therefore, in the traditional folk culture, the year without "spring" is called "the year of widows", while in the south central region, the year of widows is called "the year of blindness", which has the same meaning and different names.
Warm reminder that the birth of the year of no spring (widow's year) and the year of double spring is actually caused by the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar.
The existence of this phenomenon is only the need of the calendar, which has no impact on the natural climate and seasons, and has no special impact on people's life and production. Some good people call it "the year of silence" and "the year of widows". They say that children born cannot speak and their husbands are easy to die and their wives are widowed, which is far fetched and goes against the basic principle of the theory of Yin Yang and five elements.