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unusual facts about Lunar month


Lunar month

In Middle-Eastern and European traditions, the month starts when the young crescent moon becomes first visible at evening after conjunction with the Sun one or two days before that evening (e.g., in the Islamic calendar).


Double Ninth Festival

According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (or double nine) has too much yang (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially dangerous date.

Dragon beard noodles

It's a tradition eaten on the second day of the second lunar month, which calls Longtaitou Festival.

Hao Meng

One night in the sixth lunar month of 196, he rebelled against Lü Bu in Xiapi (下邳; present-day Pizhou, Xuzhou, Jiangsu), the capital of Lü Bu's domain Xu Province, and led his men to attack Lü Bu's office, but was unable to break in.


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Bai people

The grandest festival of the Bai people is the Third Month Fair, held annually at the foot of Mt. Cangshan in Dali between the fifteenth and the twentieth day of the third lunar month.

Fujiwara no Naritsune

According to that text, shortly after his father was exiled to Kikai-ga-shima, Naritsune was, in the sixth lunar month of 1177, summoned to Fukuhara and then to Bitchū province before himself being sent to Kikai-ga-shima.

Hanuman Jayanti

In Maharashtra, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on the full moon day (pūrnima) of the Hindu lunar month of Chaitra.

Huashi, Beijing

Queen Mother's Saturn Peach Festival - is a Daoist festival held during the third lunar month to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West.

Pemayangtse Monastery

The Chaam festival (monk dance) is held every year, on the 28th and 29th day of the 12th lunar month of the Tibetan Calendar corresponding to February of the Gregorian calendar.

Phaguwala

After sometime the construction of the original platform, a room was constructed and a fair was held to celebrate Basant Panchmi - the fifth day of the light half of the Hindu lunar month of Magh (January–February), the first day of spring.

Princess Hwawan

She died in 1808, on the seventeenth day of the fifth lunar month in the eighth year of the reign of King Sunjo of Joseon, in Paju (Hangul: 파주, Hanja: 坡州).

Ramnagar Fort

These celebrations are concluded on the last day, the Dashami day (10th day of bright half of Lunar month) as per Hindu Calendar (October as per Gregorian Calendar, with the burning of the effigy of Ravana, the demon king, and his associates, which signifies victory of good over evil.

Trần Nhân Tông

On the 22nd of the tenth lunar month (November 5) 1278, Trần Thánh Tông decided to cede the throne to the Crown Prince Trần Khâm, now Trần Nhân Tông, and held the title Retired Emperor.

Vallabha Acharya

He entered into the waters of the Ganges on the day of Rath Yatra (A festival that is celebrated on the second or third day of the bright side of the lunar month of Ashadha).

Yiḥyah Salaḥ

Maharitz is said to have been born in the lunar month of Cheshvan, in the year 5474 anno mundi, a year corresponding to 1713 CE, and he died in 1805.

七夕

Qixi Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar