How are you doing with the New Year's holiday? Relatives are all running out? Is the family done with you? If your vacation isn't over yet, take the time to do what you want to do, like hang out with your parents or watch a movie with your loved one.
If your vacation is over, that's okay, there are still plenty of holidays in 2024.
It's better to plan well in advance, so that you can do what you want to do happily when different holidays are coming.
In 2024, the holiday arrangements for Qingming Festival, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day and Spring Festival, ** The General Office has already announced. Let's take a look!
1. Qingming Festival
Remembrance is in Qingming, and the rain is clear. This is the first festival in 24 years, and it is also an important day to pay tribute to the martyrs and remember the nostalgia, and we must not forget the customs that have been passed down for thousands of years. The Qingming Festival will be closed on April 4, a total of 3 days, but you need to go to work on April 7.
When everyone goes home to worship their ancestors, it is best not to forget the concept of civilized ancestor worship promulgated a few years ago: frugal worship of ancestors, flowers, tree planting, tomb sweeping, bowing and silent mourning. Sacrifice safety, do not burn incense and paper in mountains, forests, scenic spots and other places. Healthy sacrifices, not superstitious, not blind, courteous.
2. Labor Day
The ancients once said that "the people's livelihood is diligent, and diligence is not scarce," and diligence is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.
Labor Day is an international holiday, and the leaders of Engels paid special attention to the working people who marched on May 1, and proposed at the Paris Congress in July 1889 that May 1 was the International Labor Day.
In 1918, China's working people followed the example of the international and marched in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Labor Day was established as a legal holiday in China in December 1949.
In previous years, Labor Day was a five-day holiday, but this year it is the same, starting on May 1 and lasting for five days, but two days are compensated.
3. Dragon Boat Festival
May 5 is Duanyang. As early as ancient times, people believed in heaven and earth and ancestors, and would sacrifice on this day to thank the gods and ancestors for their kindness. In particular, the custom of sacrificing the dragon during the Dragon Boat Festival should be related to the Ganzhi calendar and the seven nights of the dragon.
However, many people in modern times only know that this day is to remember the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, in order to protect Qu Yuan's body from being eaten, he threw zongzi into the river.
Therefore, there will be many customs during the Dragon Boat Festival every year, and this year's holiday time is from June 8th to June 10th.
Fourth, the Mid-Autumn Festival
Between the lights of thousands of homes, everyone is reunited. Children who have left home finally have time to go home to visit and accompany their parents. This day originates from the worship of celestial phenomena, from the autumn and evening moon sacrifices in ancient times, take the mythical story of Chang'e to the moon, it is both a romantic and a time of reunion.
When it comes to September 17th this year, everyone must watch the moon, eat moon cakes, guess riddles, and play lanterns to spend, and the Mid-Autumn Festival will be off for 3 days, and the 15th to 17th will be off for a holiday, but the 14th (Saturday) needs to go to work.
5. National Day
Kyushu celebrates together, a prosperous birthday. The National Day is a full 7 days off, from October 1 to 7, and there are also two days of holiday in exchange. This is a day of national celebration.
During the holiday period, the lanterns, long holidays, free highways, and the raising of the national flag at Tiananmen Square are all to commemorate the countless revolutionary ancestors who led the Chinese people out of the darkest moment and into a new era of great light.
6. Undetermined holidays
New Year's Day and New Year's Day in 2025 have not yet been determined, but as in the past, there should be 3 days off on New Year's Day and 8 days off on New Year's Day.
If you are looking forward to taking a longer holiday, it is necessary to see the arrangement of the time, we only need to have a detailed understanding of these two festivals, and wait for the good news.
There is light in all things, as new as new. Legend has it that in ancient times, the succession of the throne was not from father to son, but the capable person lived in it, which led to the prosperity of Yao Shun, and later people called the day when Emperor Shun sacrificed heaven and earth and the first emperor Yao after Yao's death.
The arrival of the New Year has been played out again and again in history, but no matter how many times, we still look forward to it. Before this day, people have to clean, paste couplets, and New Year paintings, observe the New Year and set off fireworks on Chinese New Year's Eve, and start the next day to pay New Year's greetings and press New Year's money.
said not only the holiday time in 2024, but also the 25 years, and take you to understand these festivals one by one, this is to make you, I not only want to celebrate the festival, but also want to feel the happiness brought by different festivals. After all, many festivals have a history of thousands of years in our country.
Epilogue. A good holiday is worth celebrating, if it's just a simple one, it's no different from a lot of ordinary days. To run desperately to the distance every holiday, in this romantic time, understand the meaning of the holiday.