Yesterday was the Lantern Festival, which happened to be a working day. Last year, Zhou Hongyu, a deputy to the National People's Congress, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial People's Congress and professor of central China Normal University, proposed that the Lantern Festival be included in the national legal holiday. Lantern Festival is a long-standing festival in China, so why is it not a national legal holiday?
This year, Zhou Hongyu went to Beijing again to attend the national two sessions. As the Lantern Festival was just before the meeting, he told the Legal Evening News middot; that he was ready to take this opportunity to put forward again the suggestion that the Lantern Festival should be included in the national legal holiday.
Zhou Hongyu believes that after entering the legal holiday, people can enjoy the joy of the festival and excellent national traditional culture through the Lantern Festival holiday, relax their spirit and body, and better inherit the traditional Chinese culture.
Zhou Hongyu said that in the traditional sense, Chinese festivals are from Laba to the 15th of the first month, or from the 23rd to the 15th of the first month. Generally speaking, the busy New Year is before the year, the reunion is from the thirtieth day of the new year to the first day of the first month, and the new year's Day is from the first day of the first month to the 15th day of the first month. Generally speaking, after the Lantern Festival, it's the end of the year.
On the traditional Lantern Festival, people make all kinds of lanterns with colorful paper. In modern society, because the Lantern Festival is not included in the national legal holiday, many people can't even mention the interest of hanging lanterns after a day's tired work. As the biggest carrier of Lantern Festival, temple fairs, lantern fairs and gatherings are banned and cancelled in many places because they are not holiday and safety factors.
In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage, but because it is not a national legal holiday, most people don't know the origin of the Lantern Festival, let alone inherit the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.
Based on the importance of the festival and the worry about the heritage of traditional culture, as the same important festival as Qingming Festival, Mid Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and other traditional festivals, it is inevitable to include the Lantern Festival into the legal holiday to inherit the national traditional culture.
Therefore, Zhou Hongyu suggested that in the current situation of the coexistence of multi cultures and the integration of eastern and Western cultures, we should incorporate it into the national holidays, reveal the intrinsic value of the Lantern Festival from the concept and perspective of modern society, play, expand and strengthen its functions, demonstrate the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation, maintain national characteristics, promote national spirit and enhance national cohesion.
At the fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress in March 2006, Zhou Hongyu proposed that the Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and Chongyang Festival should be included in the national legal holidays. It turns out that most of the content of this proposal was later adopted. In the plan for adjusting national statutory holidays implemented since 2008, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival are added as national statutory holidays.