The Dragon Boat Festival legal holiday from which year started

The Dragon Boat Festival was listed as a national legal holiday in 2008. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; in September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of China's Dragon Boat Festival in the world's intangible cultural heritage, and it became China's first festival to be selected as the world's intangible cultural heritage. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer heights, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, its first noon is the day of the good weather heights Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. Dragon Boat Festival is popular in China and the Chinese cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals.