Is Lantern Festival a national holiday?

Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday.

After the founding of New China, Lantern Festival has not been listed as a legal holiday. New China was in ruins. For the first time in thousands of years, the people are masters of their own affairs and actively and enthusiastically devote themselves to the cause of socialist construction. In the state of selfless work, "no truce at the age of 30, continue on the first day!" The slogan shouted loudly, and the Lantern Festival holiday was naturally impossible.

After 1979, the Spring Festival holiday was extended, but only for three days, and other traditional festivals were still closed.

In 2000, the three golden weeks of Spring Festival, May Day and November Day were determined by history. Unfortunately, the Lantern Festival, which is too close to the Spring Festival, has been ignored.

In 2008, among the three traditional festivals, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival was confirmed as a new statutory festival, while the Lantern Festival could only hide in the corner.

The reason is not that the Lantern Festival is unimportant, but because it is too close to the Spring Festival, frequent holidays will undoubtedly affect work. After all, you can't just play, you have to work and live.