The difference between winter and twelfth lunar month in lunar calendar

Winter and twelfth lunar month are not the same month in the traditional lunar calendar in China.

November of the lunar calendar is the "winter month", also known as lucky month, smooth month, late October and mid-winter. If the December of a year is represented by twelve earthly branches, it is also called "Zi Yue" and "Qi Zi". The calendar of Nong Wu is December, which is commonly known as "twelfth month" by Han people. It is called "the twelfth lunar month" because "La" is the name of offering sacrifices to ancestors and hundreds of gods in ancient times, and it is also said that "there are three sacrifices to hundreds of gods after the winter solstice", that is, every day after the winter solstice, branches and leaves contain earthly branches, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties are fixed on the eighth day of December. Han people will hunt animals and hold big sacrifices. This memorial ceremony is called "hunting sacrifice". Because both "La" and "Hunting" are on holiday, the "Hunting Festival" is slowly written as "La Worship", so the last December of the year is called the twelfth month.

Idiom: the cold winter month refers to the coldest three months a year ago, and October is in Leng Yue; The winter month is 1 1 month; The twelfth month is December.