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What are the advantages of the Dragon Boat Festival being listed as a national statutory holiday?

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival with a long history, profound cultural connotation and rich folk activities, which has been widely valued by the broad masses of the people. Dragon Boat Festival not only has the significance of welcoming the heat and preventing diseases, but also has the significance of offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, which is conducive to carrying forward the spirit of patriotism. Dragon Boat Festival has rich cultural connotations and folk activities, and it is also a national festival, which occupies an important position in traditional festivals in China. Therefore, the country should include the Dragon Boat Festival as a legal holiday.