How many days does Tomb-Sweeping Day have a holiday?

Tomb-Sweeping Day 1 day holiday in 23 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023, which happens to be Wednesday, is not a good holiday. Tomb-Sweeping Day has always had only 1 day holiday, but in previous years there will be paid holidays, and only when it is linked with weekends will there be a three-day holiday. In fact, the extra two days were made up by office workers on other weekends.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival have been added as national statutory holidays, each with 1 day, mainly because April 5th falls on a Wednesday, which means it is difficult to take a holiday in a remote place. Whether you take a vacation two days in advance or two days later, you can form a three-day holiday. But it often means that there may be continuous work before or after the festival.

The main features of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancient ancestor belief and spring worship custom.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and hiking are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.