Leap day is.
What is leap year?
1: It happens every four months.
2: It happens because while the world follows a 365-day Gregorian calendar, it takes the planet over a year to orbit the sun.
3: Leap year was invented in 46 BC
4: It is skipped every 100 years
How do cultures celebrate leap year?
1: In Ireland, women are encouraged to propose to their partners on leap days, flipping traditional gender roles.
2: In parts of China, children give their parents gifts.
3: In Greek folklore, the superstition goes that getting engaged or married during a leap year will curse the union, and ultimately end in divorce or the sudden death of your partner.
4: Decorating birch trees with ribbons in Germany
5: The French satirical newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur, which is published once every four years.
6: Daughters serving their parents pig trotter noodles to their parents in Taiwan.
Leap Day or leap year is something that happens every four years. Our starting question is, what is leap day? Leap day is a day that happens once every four years, yet it is skipped every hundred years, so yes there will not be leap year in the year 2100. Leap day happens because while the world follows a 365-day Gregorian calendar, it takes the planet over a year to orbit the sun. Leap day was invented back in 46 BC by Julius Ceasar. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure because the Earth does not orbit the Sun in precisely 365 days (about 12 months). Since about the 15th century, this extra day has been 29 February. Every 4 years there’s an extra 5 hours of the day and so they just add an extra day in February which gives February 29 days (about 4 weeks). There are 366 days (about 1 year) every 4 years to keep the calendar synchronized with the astronomical year or seasonal year the extra day is February 29th.
Leap day is celebrated in places all over the world but there are also places that do not. For example, its British and Irish tradition for woman to propose to men. This tradition came from when Saint Brigid of Kildare, who thought that women had to wait too long for a proposal, agreed with Saint Patrick that women could propose. In parts of China children give their parents gifts while in Taiwan daughters serve their parents pig trotter noodles. In France, the French satirical newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur, which is published once every four years. But just as there are happy traditions there are also some dark ones. For example, In Greek folklore, the superstition goes that getting engaged or married during a leap year will curse the union, and ultimately end in divorce or the untimely death of your partner. But overall, everyone has the choice to treat it as a normal day or a holiday. Do you prefer to celebrate or just live your life normally?
