Do you want to have a rest at home or go out with your friends in groups? This year's expressway is not free, so for those who want to travel far, you must remember!
According to the implementation plan for exemption of minibus tolls on major holidays formulated by the Ministry of transport and other departments approved and forwarded by the State Council on July 24, 2012, the free passage time is the four national statutory holidays of Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, labor day and national day, as well as the consecutive rest days of the above statutory holidays determined by the general office of the State Council.
According to this regulation, Dragon Boat Festival is not a free holiday. According to the analysis, the Mid Autumn Festival is close to the national day, new year's Day is close to the Spring Festival, while the Dragon Boat Festival has a relatively low flow of visitors due to busy farming, college entrance examination and other factors, and the relevant departments only choose another four holidays free of tolls.
--From May 28 to May 30, 2017, it is a three-day public holiday
--May 30 (Tuesday, Dragon Boat Festival) is a national legal holiday
--Work as usual on Saturday, May 27.
--Public holiday from May 27 (Saturday) to May 29 (Monday)
The origin and legend of Dragon Boat Festival
--According to the records of history, Qu Yuan was the Minister of King Huai of Chu in the spring and Autumn period. He advocated the cultivation of talents, the prosperity of the country and the strength of the army, and advocated the alliance against Qin. He was strongly opposed by the aristocrats such as Zi Lan. Qu Yuan was slandered, expelled from the capital, and exiled to yuan and Xiang river basins. In exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Lisao, Tianwen and Jiuge, which worried about the country and the people, with unique style and profound influence (therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is also called poet Festival). In 278 BC, the Qin army conquered the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland was invaded and his heart was cut like a knife, but he could not bear to abandon his motherland. On May 5, after writing the masterpiece "Huaisha", he threw stones into Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
--It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu state were in great sorrow and rushed to Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed their boats and fished for his body on the river. A fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that if the fish, shrimp and crab were full, they would not bite Dr Qu. People followed suit. An old doctor took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying it was to make Jiaolong water animals faint, so as not to hurt Dr Qu. Later, for fear that rice balls would be eaten by Jiaolong, people came up with the idea of wrapping rice with the leaves of neem (Li & agrave; n), wrapping the colorful silk outside, and developing into brown seeds.
--Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of dragon boat race, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.