Làyuè is the last month of the year in the Chinese calendar. In general, the Great Cold is in Làyuè.^{[clarification needed]} 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