Is Tomb-Sweeping Day a legal holiday?

Since June 9, 2007, the national legal holiday adjustment research group has publicly solicited opinions on the national legal holiday adjustment plan on the Internet. According to this plan, in June 5438+February, 2007, the State Council will increase the national legal holidays from 10 to1day, and keep two of the three golden weeks and cancel one. At the same time, four national traditional festivals, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, will be included in the national statutory holidays.

After the adjustment of the new scheme, only the Spring Festival and the "Eleventh" Golden Week are left, and traditional national festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival have one day off each, plus two days off on weekends, which becomes a three-day short holiday. In this way, there will be two peaks of concentrated vacation every year, namely, 7 days of Spring Festival, 7 days of National Day, 5 peaks of concentrated vacation, 3 days of New Year's Day, 3 days of Tomb-Sweeping Day, 3 days of May Day, 3 days of Dragon Boat Festival, 3 days of Mid-Autumn Festival, and a small holiday with three consecutive days off.

Qingming custom

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through the historical development and evolution, Tomb-Sweeping Day has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been formed in different places, with sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking as the basic themes.

The name of Tomb-Sweeping Day is related to the meteorological and climatic characteristics at this time. According to the Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi Astronomical Training", "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, fighting refers to B, the wind is clear"; "Qingming Wind" is a refreshing and clear wind. "Hundred Questions at the Age of Years" said, "At this time, everything grows clean and bright, hence the name Qingming."

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Qingming