When will the next leap April in the lunar calendar be? And how many years will it take?

When will the next leap April in the lunar calendar be? And how many years will it take?
Leap April is a relatively common leap month, usually occurring once every 8 or 11 years. When will the next leap April in the lunar calendar be, and how many years will it take? From 2012 to 2020, 8 years have passed, and leap April has once again visited the world, bringing an unusual feeling to this early summer. Shuimoxiansheng.com has also compiled a special article about the leap April of 2020 for everyone, come and check it out!

When will the next lunar April be a leap year?

【Leap April】
Chinese name: Leap April Foreign name: Leap April
Lunar calendar days - 383-385 days Lunar calendar months - 13 months Spring Festival dates - January 23-26 New Year's Eve - February 9-13
——Query the years with leap April from the 20th to the 21st century:
《1》20th century:
——1906 (Bingwu Year), 1925 (Yichou Year)
——1944 (Jiashen Year), 1963 (Guimao Year)
——1974 (Year of the Tiger), 1982 (Year of the Dog)
《2》21st century:
——2001 (Xinsi Year), 2012 (Renchen Year)
——2020 (Year of the Rat), 2058 (Year of the Tiger)
——2069 (Jichou Year), 2077 (Dingyou Year)
——2088 (Wushen Year), 2096 (Bingchen Year)
——According to the query: the next lunar leap April is in 2058, the year of Wuyin

How many more years will it take?

——The next leap April in the lunar calendar will be 38 years later] Reasons for leap months:
(1) The average time between two solar terms is 365.2422÷12=30.4368 days, so 30 or 31 days.
(2) The Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse. It moves faster at the perihelion (vernal equinox and autumnal equinox), and the time interval between two solar terms can be as long as 31.45 days.
(3) The average length of a lunar month is 29.5306 days, with a short lunar month lasting 29 days and a long lunar month lasting 30 days.
(4) This results in the following situation: in some months (usually short months), the previous solar term has already passed at the beginning of the month, and the next solar term has not yet arrived at the end of the month.
(5) For example, in 2001 (the Year of the Snake), the Grain Full Moon fell on May 21 (the 29th day of the fourth lunar month). The first day of the next lunar month was May 23, which had already missed the Grain Full Moon. However, the lunar month ended on June 20, and the summer solstice was on June 21. Therefore, this lunar month did not have a “middle qi” and fell after the fourth lunar month, so it was called a leap April.
(6) According to this leap month rule, there is a leap July in 2006, a leap May in 2009, a leap April in 2012, a leap September in 2014, a leap June in 2017, a leap April in 2020, and a leap February in 2023.

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