What are the sayings and traditions about the Beginning of Summer? Can’t you get married in a year without the Beginning of Summer?

What are the sayings and traditions about the Beginning of Summer? Can’t you get married in a year without the Beginning of Summer?
Spring brings growth, summer brings growth, autumn brings harvest, and winter brings storage. When it comes to the Beginning of Summer, all things flourish. Want to know more about Lixia? There are many important days in April, such as April 8th is the birthday of Sakyamuni and April 28th is the birthday of Medicine King Bodhisattva. For more auspicious days in April, please see Shuimo.com’s special feature on April of the lunar calendar in 2022!

What are the sayings and etiquettes about the Beginning of Summer solar term?

Beginning of Summer is the seventh solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the first solar term in summer.
The Beginning of Summer marks the farewell to spring and the beginning of summer. Spring brings growth, summer brings growth, autumn brings harvest, and winter brings storage. When it comes to the Beginning of Summer, all things flourish.
The so-called "Li" means beginning. Lichun, Lixia, Liqiu and Lidong represent the beginning and arrival of spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively. In order to express the characteristics of time more accurately, the ancients divided the solar terms into four groups: "fen", "zhi", "kai" and "bi" according to the weather and phenology. "Fen" refers to the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox, which were called the "two equinoxes" in ancient times; "zhi" refers to the summer solstice and the winter solstice, which were called the "two solstices" in ancient times; "qi" refers to the beginning of spring and the beginning of summer, and "bi" refers to the beginning of autumn and the beginning of winter. The beginning of spring, the beginning of summer, the beginning of autumn, and the beginning of winter are collectively called the "four beginnings", and these add up to the "eight solar terms".

Can’t you get married in a year without the Beginning of Summer?

The statement “You can’t get married in a year without the Beginning of Summer” is wrong. The correct statement is “You can’t get married in a year without the Beginning of Spring”.
In some rural areas, the year without the Beginning of Spring is called the "year without spring" or the "widow year". It is believed that women who get married in this year will have an unhappy marriage and are likely to bring bad luck to their husbands.
A year without spring is a concept in the lunar calendar: in order to adapt to the changes in cold and hot weather, the ancients would add seven leap years to every 19 years in the lunar calendar. Well, in 19 years, there were 7 years without the Beginning of Spring, 7 years with two Beginnings of Spring, and 5 years with only one Beginning of Spring. This is because the length of the lunar year is shorter than the tropical year in some years and longer than the tropical year in some years. For example, the Lunar New Year of the Pig in 2019 is a “year without spring”, and the Lunar New Year of the Ox in 2021 is also a “year without spring”, that is, there is no Beginning of Spring throughout the year.
Of course, this is just a feudal superstition in some areas. It has no scientific basis, and few people know about it now, so you don’t have to take it too seriously.

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