National Day customs include: decorating with lanterns, National Day holidays, free highways and military parades.
1, decorated with lanterns
Every National Day holiday in China, enterprises and institutions will hang lanterns or banners and play slogans such as "Celebrate the National Day" to celebrate the National Day. Bonsai and hydrogen balloons with slogans are placed in the square to welcome the National Day with a happy atmosphere.
2. National Day holiday
Every year, 65438+ 10 1 is the national day of China. 1999, China revised and issued the National Holidays and Remembrance Days, which merged the National Day with the adjacent Saturdays and Sundays into a seven-day National Day holiday, which was called the National Day Golden Week, and used the holiday situation to let the people feel the joy of the National Day together.
3. Freeway is free
With the improvement of people's living standards and the increasing popularity of private cars, people usually use the 7-day National Day holiday to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Therefore, from 20 12, the expressway is free for private cars during the National Day.
4. National Day military parade
Since the founding of New China, there have been 14 National Day military parades. Apart from the founding ceremony military parade in 1949, I was most impressed by the three national day military parades in 1984, 1999 and 2009. Through the National Day military parade, we can not only celebrate the National Day and publicize China's prestige, but also show the world China's powerful national defense force.
5. Flag raising ceremony in Tiananmen Square
Every National Day, it is the dream of countless people to go to Tiananmen Square to watch the national flag being raised. Therefore, people who take advantage of the National Day holiday to travel to Beijing usually come to Tiananmen Square early to watch the soldiers of the national flag class raise the national flag to express their incomparable love for the motherland. Looking at the five-star red flag rising slowly, their excitement is beyond words.
6. National Day party
Before and after the National Day, in order to celebrate the National Day and promote corporate culture, all enterprises and institutions will organize employees to hold welcome parties to express the joy of the National Day in the form of cultural performances.
The significance of national day
1, National Day is a feature of modern nation-state, which appears with the emergence of modern nation-state and becomes particularly important. It has become a symbol of an independent country, reflecting the country's state system and polity.
2. Once the National Day, a special commemorative way, becomes a new and national holiday form, it carries the function of reflecting the cohesion of this country and nation. At the same time, the large-scale celebration of the National Day is also a concrete manifestation of the government's mobilization and call.
3. Demonstrate national strength, enhance national self-confidence, embody cohesion and exert appeal.
Our People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) was founded in 1949, 10, 1 is our national day every year. National Day represents that we have an independent national system and government, which can not only enhance national self-confidence, but also have very important historical significance for the country.