The Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday.

The Dragon Boat Festival has been recognized as a legal holiday since 2008 and is a one-day holiday, except that the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is usually combined with Saturday and Sunday, adding up to three days. The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is to allow people to rest their bodies and minds while better inheriting and carrying forward the traditional Chinese festival.

October 25, 2021, "the General Office of the State Council on the arrangement of some holidays in 2022 notice" issued in 2022, the Dragon Boat Festival June 3 to 5 days of vacation and rest, **** 3 days. December 8, 2022, "the General Office of the State Council on the arrangement of some holidays in 2023 notice" issued in 2023, the Dragon Boat Festival June 22 to 24 days! Holiday transfer, *** 3 days.

Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, dated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a big folk festival that combines the worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating and entertaining, and eating and drinking. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times.

Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the most "neutral" position throughout the year, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" fifth line: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, containing a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences.