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Do college students in Tomb-Sweeping Day have a holiday?

College students will have a holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day will have a holiday from April 4 to 6, 2024, lasting for ***3 days. According to legend, Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals, and Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the Zhou Dynasty with a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day was originally just the name of a solar term, and it became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival, so Jin Wengong designated the day after the Cold Food Festival as 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 originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.