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What day is 5.20?

May 20th is online Valentine's Day, because "520" and "I love you" are homophonic. Therefore, Chinese mainland generally believes that today is Valentine's Day.

The festival originated from the metaphor of "520" in the digital love of singer Mavis Fan and the close relationship between "I love you" and "online lovers" in the online songs of musician Wu Yulong. Later, "52 1" was gradually given the meaning of "I do, I love you" by couples.

With the increasing number of festival participants, 520, 52 1 Online Valentine's Day, Confession Day and Winding Day have become hot news reported by various media (newspapers, TV, Internet, etc.). ), and many merchants also took the opportunity to carry out group buying, discounts and other promotional activities.

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May 20th every year is China Student Nutrition Day. China Student Nutrition Promotion Association was established in 1989. Under the auspices of nutritionist Yu Ruomu, combined with the strategic goal of the World Health Organization that everyone should enjoy health care by the year 2000, a ten-year student nutrition work plan from 19 1 to the year 2000 was formulated.

The plan was named "Nursery System Engineering", and May 20th of each year was designated as China Student Nutrition Day. Its purpose is to publicize the importance of nutrition in students' period and popularize nutrition knowledge. In May 2006, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health jointly issued a document to legalize "China Student Nutrition Day".

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