Layue Explained

Làyuè is the last month of the year in the Chinese calendar. In general, the Great Cold, the 24th solar term, is in Làyuè. The name comes from the winter sacrifice, just as February. In Japan, the month known as .

Festival

• The Laba Festival is Layue 8.^[1] The original definition of the Laba festival was the day of the winter sacrifice, and the date is the third Wùrì after the Winter Solstice.
• The Preliminary Eve is Layue 23 or 24.
• The New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, Layue 29 or 30.

Events

Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the 12th Qing emperor of China, issued the imperial abdication edict on Layue 25, 1911.

Births

• Emperor Go-Uda, the 91st emperor of Japan, Shiwasu 1, 1269
• Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, Shiwasu 26, 1542
• Uemura Masahisa, a Japanese Christian pastor, theologian and critic of Meiji and Taishō periods, Shiwasu 1, 1857
• Imperial Noble Consort Shushen, an Imperial concubine of the Tongzhi Emperor, Làyuè 1, 1859

Deaths

• Yue Fei, Yue Yun, Zhang Xian, military generals who lived in the Southern Song dynasty, Làyuè 29_th 1141
• Lu You, a prominent poet of China's Southern Song Dynasty, Làyuè 29_th 1209
• Emperor Go-Hanazono, the 102nd emperor of Japan, Shiwasu 27_th 1470
• Lê Uy Mục, the eighth king of the later Lê dynasty of Vietnam, Làyuè 1_st 1509
• Yi Gwang-sik, a Korean politician and general during the Joseon Dynasty, Làyuè 1_st 1563

Notes and References

1. Web site: CGTN . January 12, 2024 . Layue, a joyful celebration in the run-up to Spring Festival . 12 June 2024 . China Daily.