How many days is the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in 2018?

In 2018, there will be three days of Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on September 22nd, September 23rd and September 24th.

"Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Arrangements for Certain Holidays in 2018" 6. Mid-Autumn Festival: a holiday on September 24, consecutively with the weekend.

Holiday arrangement diagram: Extended information Customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: 1. Guessing riddles. Many lanterns are hung in public places on the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. People gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because they are loved by most young men and women.

At the same time, love stories are also spread in these activities, so Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddle guessing has also been derived as a form of love between men and women.

?2. Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Appreciating the moon and eating mooncakes are essential customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of China. As the saying goes: "August and fifteenth are full, and Mid-Autumn mooncakes are fragrant and sweet."

The term mooncake originated from "Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a snack food.

Later, people gradually combined moon appreciation with moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion and expressed their longing for each other.

At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift used to connect friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is also the custom of betting on cakes in Xiamen, Fujian, and cake betting is listed as a national intangible cultural heritage item.

3. Appreciate osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine. People often eat moon cakes and enjoy osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They also eat various foods made from osmanthus, with pastries and candies being the most common.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the osmanthus in the middle of the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a glass of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrating the sweetness of the family has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival.

In modern times, people mostly use red wine instead.

4. Playing with lanterns There is no large-scale lantern festival like the Lantern Festival during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Playing with lanterns is mainly done among families and children.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, "Old Martial Arts" recorded the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, including the activity of "putting a "little red" lantern into the river to float and play."

People who play with lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival are mostly concentrated in the south.

For example, at the Foshan Autumn Color Fair, there are various kinds of lanterns: sesame lanterns, eggshell lanterns, wood shaving lanterns, straw lanterns, fish scale lanterns, chaff lanterns, melon seed lanterns, bird and animal flower tree lanterns, etc.