What festival is April 23rd?

April 23rd is 1 13 every year (1 14 in leap year), and there are 252 days before the end of the year.

Festival custom

World Book and Copyright Day

World Book and Copyright Day began at 1995, with the aim of promoting reading and writing and raising the awareness of copyright closely related to reading. April 23rd is a symbolic day for world literature, because Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Garci Lasso Dehlavi Jia all died on this day in 16 16. In addition, April 23rd is also the day when other famous writers were born or died, such as Maurice Delauren, laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Yue Se Pula and Manuel Meguia Vallejo. Naturally, the UNESCO General Conference held in Paris from 65438 to 0995 chose this day to pay tribute to books and authors all over the world. Encourage everyone, especially teenagers, to find the pleasure of reading, and once again pay tribute to those who have made irreplaceable contributions to promoting human social and cultural progress. 1995165438+10 In October, the 28th General Conference of UNESCO passed a resolution declaring April 23rd as World Book and Copyright Day. [ 1]

World Book Day

From 65438 to 0972, UNESCO issued a call to the whole world to "move towards a reading society", requiring all members of society to read books, making books a necessity of life and reading an indispensable part of everyone's daily life.

Starting from 1995, UNESCO designated April 23rd as "World Book &; CopyrightDay) promotes reading and writing to the public (especially teenagers and children) and promotes the copyright awareness closely related to reading. April 23rd was originally a landmark day of world literature, and it was the anniversary of the death of Cervantes and the famous English writer Shakespeare. Over the years, "World Reading Day" has become a festival for readers in many countries.

1997 65438+ 10, nine ministries and commissions, including Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Culture, the State Education Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission, the Press and Publication Administration, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Women's Federation, jointly issued the Notice on Organizing the Implementation of the Knowledge Project throughout the country, proposing to implement "promoting reading for all", which is a project aimed at developing the library cause. Social and cultural system engineering with the aim of advocating reading, spreading knowledge and popularizing knowledge. In 2000, the leading group of national knowledge engineering designated 65438+February every year as "National Reading Month", which was a major project to implement the national knowledge engineering. In recent years, various publicity activities have been organized all over the country. In 2004, the "National Leading Group for Knowledge Project" held large-scale activities nationwide, and implemented the "knowledge project" with the aim of "advocating universal reading and building a reading society", further stimulating the reading enthusiasm of the whole people, promoting the construction of a learning society, a learning organization and a learning family, letting the public know about "World Reading Day", paying attention to reading and building a harmonious scholarly society. [2]

St George's Day

St George, born in Palestine around 260 AD, is a Roman cavalry officer, who is brave and good at fighting. He was killed in 303 AD for trying to stop the persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian. In 494, he was canonized by Pope Gracio I.

Arabian folk stories related to St. George include the dragon slaying by St. George, the saving of girls by St. George, and the idea of eliminating oppressors and saving the helpless. Even though St. George never existed, his story conveyed the spirit of protecting the weak, facing the invaders and sacrificing for holiness. St George is an important part of English culture. If you go to England around St George's Day, you will see a white flag with the Red Cross hanging outside churches, bars and even cars. This is the flag of St. George. On this day, people will buy roses for their lovers and give their children a book. According to the tradition of the Christian church, April 23rd is Saint George's Day every year.