China's legal holidays include new year's day, Spring Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, labor day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and national day. Labor day, as an intermediate holiday, is very popular for office workers. Then may day is coming. How do you plan to spend it?
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Labor day, 2019: Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
Holiday and compensatory leave arrangement: may 1-May 4, 2019, a total of 4 days, April 28 (Sunday), May 5 (Sunday) off to work.
The origin of International Labor Day
May Day originated from the workers' strike in Chicago. On May 1, 1886, more than 216000 workers in Chicago held a general strike for the implementation of the eight hour working system. After a hard and bloody struggle, they finally won the victory. To commemorate the great workers' movement, in July 1889, the second International announced that may 1 of each year will be the international labor day. This decision immediately received a positive response from workers all over the world. On May 1, 1890, the working class of European and American countries took the lead in going to the streets, holding grand demonstrations and rallies to fight for their legitimate rights and interests. From then on, every day, the working people of all countries in the world will gather and March to celebrate.
The significance of Labor Day
The significance of International Labor Day lies in the fact that workers have won their legitimate rights and interests through struggle and with indomitable, heroic and unyielding spirit of struggle, which is the historical progress of human civilization and democracy. This is the essence of May Day. That's why people pay so much attention to labor day.
The customs of labor day all over the world
China
There are three days off, celebrations and commendations. However, may day will be a holiday in 2019.
The Chinese people's celebration of Labor Day dates back to 1918. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, May 1 was designated as the legal labor day, a national holiday.
On this day of every year, the whole country celebrates. People put on their festive costumes and gather in parks, theaters and squares to participate in various celebration gatherings or recreational activities, and commend the workers who have made outstanding contributions.
U.S.A
The birthplace of Labor Day is may day. However, the special thing is that when the United States later set up labor day, it set the first Monday of September as labor day, so the labor day of Americans is not in May, but in September. Every September's labor day, Americans can have a day off. People across the United States usually hold parades, rallies and other celebrations to show their respect for workers. In some states, after the parade, people hold picnics to eat, drink, sing and dance. At night, there are fireworks in some places.
Russia
There are many parades, gatherings and entertainment.
Since the establishment of the international labor day, Russia has always attached great importance to this special festival. On May Day, Russia has a national holiday, and various celebrations and mass processions are held.
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Generally speaking, the procession of May day must first pass through the main streets and squares of the city, and then hold large-scale gatherings and celebrations in the old or broad central square. At the same time, various clubs around Russia will hold colorful entertainment activities with rich contents, and people's festival mood is very high.
Japan
Labor Day falls on the golden week. Japan is a country with many festivals. There are many festivals before and after May 1, such as tree planting day on April 29, constitutional day on May 3, national holiday on May 4, and children's day on May 5. Generally speaking, Japanese have at least one week's rest time, and the longest is even 11 days.
For the working class, the significance of this long holiday is really unusual. Therefore, in Japan, the special celebration of Labor Day is gradually replaced by the golden week of May Day. And since April 29, Japan has entered the golden week.
Italy
No celebrations, no holidays
Although Italy recognizes the international labor day on May Day and the government shows respect for labor, ordinary people do not hold special celebrations and there is no national May Day holiday.
Thailand, Peru, Britain and France have a day off
Thailand first promulgated the labor regulations in 1932, and then designated May 1 as the national labor day to reward hard-working workers. On this day, Thailand has a national holiday. There will be celebrations in the capital and some big cities, but the scale is generally not too large. Similar to the situation in Thailand, Peru, a South American country, also sets may 1 as the national labor day and has a national holiday. Britain, France and other European countries have designated may day as labor day. Many countries have a day off, while others have a public holiday on the first Monday of May.