Làyuè is the last month of the year in the Chinese calendar. In general, the Great Cold is in Làyuè. The name comes from the winter sacrifice, just as February. In Japan, the month is not called Layue but Shiwasu (literally 'priests' busiest month')

Festival

• The Laba Festival, is Làyuè 8_th. The following Laba Festival is at January 24, 2018. The original define of the Laba festival is the day of the winter sacrifice(simplified Chinese: 腊日; traditional Chinese: 臘日), and the date is the third Wùrì after the Winter Solstice.
• The Preliminary Eve (Chinese: 小年) is Làyuè 23_rd or 24_th.The following preliminary eve is at February 8, 2018 in North China, and at February 9, 2018 in South China.
• The New Year's Eve (Chinese: 除夕) is the last day of the year, Làyuè 29_th or 30_th. The following New Year's Eve is at February 15, 2018, which is a statutory holiday.

Events

Aisin-Gioro Puyi, 12th Qing Emperor of China, issued the imperial abdication edict at Làyuè 25_th 1911

Birth

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

Death

• 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