The Spring Festival is the most solemn and lively festival in our country, and everyone will go home to reunite with their families every year. The following is a list of holiday arrangements for the Spring Festival in 2024 (a few days off), welcome to read.
February 9, 2024 (Chinese New Year's Eve, Friday) - February 15, 2024 (early
6. Thursday), a total of 7 days off, of which February 4, 2024 (Sunday, February 17 (Saturday) will be off for normal work.
The above information is for reference only, and the official release shall prevail.
The 2024 Chinese New Year is February 10, 2024.
Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the first year of the year and is traditionally celebrated. Commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, etc., it is also known verbally as the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, and the New Year. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development.
During the Spring Festival, various activities are held to celebrate the New Year all over the country, with strong local characteristics.
The national Spring Festival statutory holiday is three days, that is, at the beginning of the first month.
First, the beginning. Second, the third year of junior high school. The law stipulates that employers shall arrange leave for employees during the following holidays: New Year's Day, Spring Festival, International Labor Day, National Day, and other holidays stipulated by laws and regulations. If an employee is assigned to work on a statutory holiday, the employer shall pay a wage remuneration of not less than 300% of the salary. Statutory annual holidays are the rest time uniformly stipulated by national laws and regulations to carry out commemorative and celebration activities, and are also a kind of rest time for workers.
In ancient agrarian societies, housewives were busy arranging food for the New Year after the eighth day of the lunar month. Because it takes a long time to pickle lap-mei, it must be prepared as soon as possible, and many provinces in China have the custom of pickling lap-mei, among which the lap-mei of Guangdong Province is the most famous.
Steamed rice cakes, because of the homonym "high year", coupled with the variety of tastes, has almost become a must-have food for every family. The style of the rice cake has a square-shaped yellow and white rice cake, which symbolizes the meaning of ** and the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year. The taste of rice cakes varies from place to place. Beijingers like to eat red date rice cakes, 100 fruit rice cakes and white rice cakes made from jiang or yellow rice. Hebei people like to add jujubes, small red beans and mung beans to the rice cakes and steam them together. In the northern part of Shanxi in Inner Mongolia and other places, it is customary to eat yellow rice flour fried rice cakes during the New Year, and some are also wrapped with bean paste, jujube paste and other fillings, while Shandong people use yellow rice and red dates to steam rice cakes. Rice cakes in the north are mainly sweet, steamed or fried, and some people simply dip them in sugar and eat them. Southern rice cakes are both sweet and salty, such as those in Suzhou and Ningbo, which are made with japonica rice and have a light taste. In addition to steaming and frying, you can also slice and stir-fry or cook soup. The sweet rice cake is made with glutinous rice flour and sugar, lard, rose, osmanthus, mint, vegetarian paste and other ingredients, and the workmanship is fine, and it can be steamed directly or fried with egg white.
Dumplings, the northern Chinese New Year's Eve dinner has the tradition of eating dumplings, but the customs of eating dumplings are different in various places, some places eat dumplings on Chinese New Year's Eve, some places eat dumplings on the first day of the new year, and some mountainous areas in the north also have the custom of eating dumplings every morning from the first to the fifth day of the new year. Eating dumplings is a unique way to express people's wishes for good fortune as they say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. According to China's ancient timekeeping method, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. the next day is the sub-time. "Jiaozi" is the moment when the new year intersects with the old year. Dumplings mean more age, and eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is considered to be auspicious. In addition, dumplings are shaped like ingots, making dumplings means wrapping good luck, and eating dumplings symbolizes a rich life.
The night before the real New Year is called the reunion night, the wanderers who are away from home have to rush home thousands of miles away, the whole family wants to sit around and make dumplings for the New Year, the way of dumplings is to make dumpling skin with noodles first, and then wrap the stuffing with skin, the content of the filling is varied, all kinds of meat, eggs, seafood, seasonal vegetables, etc. can be filled, the orthodox way to eat dumplings is to cook in clear water, and after scooping up, the soy sauce with vinegar, minced garlic and sesame oil is used as a condiment to eat. There are also ways to eat fried dumplings and baked dumplings (pot stickers). Because the word "harmony" in the face is the meaning of "together";The "dumplings" and "cross" of dumplings are homophonic, and "he" and "cross" have the meaning of gathering, so dumplings are used to symbolize reunion;It also takes the meaning of changing the age of the child, which is very auspicious;In addition, because the dumplings resemble ingots, eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year also carries the auspicious meaning of "attracting wealth and entering the treasure". The family gets together to make dumplings and talk about the New Year.
Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Taoism calls it "Shangyuan Festival". According to Yi Tuzhen's "(Female + Lang) Huanhuanji" in the Yuan Dynasty, "Sanyu Post" is recorded: After Chang'e ran to the moon, Yi missed and became ill. On the night of the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, a boy suddenly asked to see, claiming to be the envoy of Chang'e, saying: "Mrs. knows that Jun Huaisi, there is no way to descend, tomorrow is the full moon, you should use rice flour as a pill, the group is like the moon, put the northwest of the room, call the name of the lady, and the three nights can be lowered." Yi did what he did, and Chang'e really came. It can be seen that eating Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival is to take the auspicious meaning of "Tuan Tuan Tuan is like the moon".
During the Ming Dynasty, Lantern Festival was already common in Beijing, and the practice was no different from today. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the "Eight Treasures Lantern Festival" and Ma Siyuan Lantern Festival prevailed. **In the early years, Yuan Shikai also ordered a ban on shouting Lantern Festival because the Lantern Festival and "Yuan Xiao" sounded the same. In addition to Jiangmi noodles, there are also sticky sorghum noodles and yellow rice noodles for the Lantern Festival. The filling has osmanthus white sugar, mountain residue white sugar, assorted mix, bean paste, jujube paste, etc. In terms of shape, it is as big as a walnut, and there are also "Baizi Tangyuan" as small as soybeans, as well as "Lupi Tangyuan" with solid balls and thin skin.
Spring Festival generally refers to Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. However, in the folk sense, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the festival from the eighth day of the lunar month or the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, culminating in Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, the Han nationality and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly based on sacrificing to gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, removing the old and cloth the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.
The beginning of the Chinese lunar year is called the Spring Festival. It is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese people, and it also symbolizes unity, prosperity and new hope for the future. According to records, the Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, and it was raised by Yu Shun. One day more than 2,000 years BC, Shun was the Son of Heaven, leading his subordinates to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people regard this day as the first day of the year, and it is regarded as the first day of the first month. It is said that this is the origin of the Lunar New Year, and later the ** festival. The Spring Festival used to be called New Year's Day. The month in which the Spring Festival falls is called the first month.