Year has the distinction between common years and leap years. A leap year has one more day than a common year. So, is 1949 a common year or a leap year? What is the fate of people born in 1949? Learn more from Huayi Network. The leap month is a special cultural aspect of the Chinese lunar calendar. The appearance of the leap seventh month is also rare. Huayi Network has prepared content about the leap seventh month for you to read first.

Is 1949 a common year or a leap year?

1949 is a common year, not a leap year
(Leap year determination method: divisible by 400, or divisible by 4 but not by 100.)

What is the fate of people born in 1949?

1949 was the lunar year of "Jichou", with the zodiac sign of the ox, belonging to the element of earth, and the musical note "Lightning Fire".
People born in the year of the ox are practical and do not act on emotions. Emotions rarely change their minds. When others ask for their opinions, they always support reliable and concrete plans. People born in the year of Chou have an introspective nature, tend to dwell on small matters, and are not decisive in their actions. They have a strong tendency towards being solitary and may be overly submissive to others, thus failing to gain sincere friends. If they can correct their shortcomings and strive for progress, they will have good luck and a successful career after the age of fifty.

The significance of leap years

The usual explanation is that a year has how many days, hours, and minutes, rounding off to 365 days, and when the remaining time accumulates to a full day of 24 hours, an extra day is added, making it a leap year. This explanation only tells people how to calculate, which is a man-made setting.
The fundamental reason is that the Earth's orbital period around the Sun is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds (equivalent to 365.24219 days), known as a tropical year. The Gregorian common year has only 365 days, which is about 0.2422 days shorter than the tropical year. The accumulated remaining time is approximately one day every four years, so an extra day is added to February in the fourth year, making the length of that year 366 days, and this year is called a leap year. In the current Gregorian calendar, there are 97 leap years in every 400 years. According to the calculation of one leap year every four years, an average of 0.0078 days is added each year. After four hundred years, this would add up to about three days. Therefore, in every four hundred years, three leap years need to be eliminated. Hence, the Gregorian calendar stipulates: if the year is a century year, it must be a multiple of 400 to be a leap year; if it is not a multiple of 400, even if it is a multiple of 4, it is not a leap year.