Another few days is the Lantern Festival. It has been a tradition since ancient times to eat dumplings, guess riddles and watch lion dances. Is the Lantern Festival a national legal holiday? Is it a holiday? What are the traditional customs of the Lantern Festival?
Is Lantern Festival a legal holiday? How many days is it?
no Although every family can enjoy the brilliant eyesight together, there are many activities, such as lantern lights, lantern riddles, eating lantern, etc., but it is a pity that Lantern Festival is not a holiday, because it is not a national legal holiday.
Why is Lantern Festival not a legal holiday?
The Lantern Festival is an important national traditional festival. Some opinions suggest that it should also be established as a national statutory Festival, which has been studied carefully. Considering that the total number of national legal holidays should not be increased at present, and the Lantern Festival is close to the Spring Festival, although the Mid Autumn Festival is also adjacent to the national day, it has a greater impact compared with the Mid Autumn Festival, so the Lantern Festival will not be added as a legal holiday this time.
Lantern Festival time
The Lantern Festival is usually on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. However, the time of each year's solar calendar is different. For example, the Lantern Festival in 2016 is on February 22, 2016, and the Lantern Festival in 2017 is on February 11, 2017.
The custom of Lantern Festival
The festival period and customs of the Lantern Festival are extended and expanded with the development of history. In terms of the length of the festival, it was only one day in the Han Dynasty, three days in the Tang Dynasty, five days in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the lights were lit from the eighth day of the first month to the 17th night of the first month. It is the longest lantern Festival in Chinese history. It is connected with the Spring Festival. The city is busy in the daytime and lights are lit at night. It is spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred plays" such as dragon dance, lion dance, roller boat running, stilt walking and Yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.