How often does a person celebrate their birthday in the leap month of May? Does the leap month of May have a mid-season? The so-called leap month is essentially an extra month added to the lunar calendar. The leap month is a special month among our months. Do you know in which years there is a leap month of May? Click on Huayi Network to learn all the knowledge about the leap month of May.

How often does a person celebrate their birthday in the leap month of May?

1. Celebrating the solar birthday — once a year
Modern young people mostly celebrate their solar birthdays and no longer celebrate their lunar birthdays. Therefore, the awkwardness of waiting for several decades to celebrate a birthday is becoming less common. Only the older generation still maintains the habit of celebrating their lunar birthdays.
2. Celebrating a birthday in the leap month of May — the frequency is not fixed
The leap month of May refers to the month added in a leap year, which is placed after the lunar May and before the lunar June. In the early 21st century, the leap month of May was the most frequent leap month (but this is not fixed; with time passing, the frequency of the leap month of May will gradually decrease from the highest). Generally, it appears once every 8 or 11 years.

Does the leap month of May have a mid-season?

The leap month has no mid-season, regardless of which month it is.
The rule for setting the leap month is based on the 24 solar terms related to the solar tropical year. A tropical year is divided into 24 solar terms. If the 24 solar terms are arranged from Start of Spring to Great Cold, then the odd-numbered ones are called "solar terms" and the even-numbered ones are called "mid-seasons." The lunar calendar uses twelve mid-seasons to represent the twelve months of the year. The average interval between mid-seasons is almost one day longer than a lunar synodic month. Over time, it will eventually result in mid-seasons falling at the end of the month. Therefore, the next month will inevitably have no mid-season but only a solar term (the next mid-season will fall at the beginning of the second lunar month afterward).
Thus, the lunar month without a mid-season is called the leap month of the previous month. Therefore, the leap month has absolutely no mid-season.