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Is Lantern Festival a national holiday? 2019 holiday notice arrangement

The Spring Festival holiday in 2019 has ended, and most of the office workers have been working for a week, but many people are still immersed in the festival atmosphere, so is the Lantern Festival a legal holiday? Will the Lantern Festival have a holiday?

Is the Lantern Festival off in 2019?

The Lantern Festival 2019 will be held on Tuesday, February 19, without holidays.

Why not have a holiday on Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday, so there is no holiday.

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival with a long history in China. There was a suggestion that the Lantern Festival should also be set up as a national legal holiday. After careful study, the relevant departments pointed out that considering that the total number of days of the national legal holiday 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, but the impact of the Mid Autumn Festival is greater, so the Lantern Festival will not be added as a legal holiday temporarily.

Lantern Festival is not a national legal holiday. It is a traditional festival with a long history in China. The Lantern Festival started in the period of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty advocated Buddhism. It was said that Buddhism had the practice of monks observing Buddha's relics and lighting lamps to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the first month, so they ordered the monks to light lamps to worship Buddha in the Imperial Palace and temple on that night, so that the scholars and common people could hang lamps. Later, this kind of Buddhist Etiquette Festival gradually formed a grand folk festival.

Schedule of holidays in 2019

1、 From December 30 to January 1, new year's day, December 29 (Saturday), 3 days in total

2、 From February 4 (New Year's Eve) to February 10, the Spring Festival starts on February 2 (Saturday) and February 3 (Sunday) for 7 days

3、 From April 5 to April 7, Qingming Festival and the weekend have three consecutive days off

4、 May 1, labor day, no compensatory leave, 1 day in total

5、 Dragon Boat Festival from June 7 to June 9 and the weekend for three days

6、 The Mid Autumn Festival lasts for 3 consecutive days from September 13 to September 15 and weekends

7、 From October 1 to October 7, the national day, September 29 (Sunday) and October 12 (Saturday), 7 days in total