How many legal holidays are there in Myanmar a year?

The legal holidays in Myanmar are as follows:

1, independent part

65438+1October 4th, commemorating Myanmar Independence Day1948 65438+1October 4th. There are many official and folk celebrations on Independence Day. Many pagodas will also hold various religious ceremonies in June+10, 5438. There will be mountains of offerings in the temples, and there will be plays and song and dance performances in the evening.

2. Federal holidays

12 In February, to commemorate 1947, Aung San signed the Long Bin Treaty and decided to establish the Union of Myanmar. Ethnic minorities all over the country will wear national costumes and March in procession.

3. Farmers' Day

On March 2, to commemorate the victory of the Anti-Japanese War on March 27, 1945, people everywhere celebrated happily, whether in the central street of Yangon or in remote villages.

4. Army Day

March 27th, originally the Anti-Japanese Day, was changed from 1955 to Army Day. Yangon will hold a large-scale military parade and set off colorful fireworks at night.

5. Water-splashing Festival

Around April 13 (Myanmar New Year), men, women and children can splash water on each other during the festival to show that they are washing the old and welcoming the new. Water is a symbol of happiness. The more people splash it, the happier they will be. During the Songkran Festival, people will also give food and daily necessities to temples.

6. Workers' Day

May 1

7. Martyrs' Day

July 19 is the Martyrs' Day to commemorate General Aung San and his subordinates who were assassinated on the eve of independence 1947.

8. National festivals,

65438+February 1, commemorating June 65438+February 1 Yangon University students' anti-British strike.

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Other festivals in Myanmar

1, Harvest Festival? This is the second month of the Burmese calendar (the solar calendar is between April and May).

From April to May, held in the second month of the Myanmar calendar, the Harvest Festival will make tourists appetite. It is a traditional dessert in Myanmar: snacks made of glutinous rice and various fruit materials, such as kernels, sesame seeds, peanuts and ginger slices.

2. Bathing Banyan Festival

In late April, the Myanmar calendar was held on the full moon in February. Myanmar regards the banyan tree as the incarnation of Buddha and hopes that Buddhism will be carried forward in the hottest and driest season.

3. May Festival

From July to August, it is the fifth month of the Myanmar calendar to commemorate the Buddha's birthday. The May Festival will reproduce the Buddha's life in the world with a grand ceremony, that is, his whole process from birth to nirvana. Don't miss the ceremony held in Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon on May Festival. One of the most touching scenes is that a pious Burmese woman carries a pitcher and sprinkles clean water on a bodhi tree symbolizing the Buddha's epiphany.

4. Lantern Festival

10 month, full moon day of July in Myanmar calendar. Legend has it that the Buddha kept the precepts and chanted sutras in the sky for three months in the rainy season, and returned to the earth in the full moon of July in Myanmar, and decorated the earth to welcome the Buddha back.

5. Respect for the Elderly Day

10 month, July in Myanmar calendar. Legend has it that monks knelt down to ask the Buddha for instructions after observing the precepts for three months in the rainy season, and later generations followed suit and held activities to respect the elderly during this period.

6, the cassock festival

From the middle and late period of 10 to the middle and late period of 1 10, from the full moon in July to the full moon in August in Myanmar calendar. Good men and women should present robes to monks, light lamps to greet God at the full moon in August, and hold various entertainment activities. This day is also called Hanukkah.

7. Writers' Day

65438+early February, September in Myanmar calendar 1. In ancient times, the activity of worshipping God evolved from A.D. 1782, and it was the worship and reward for great writers, who were as noble as God. 1944, Myanmar Writers Association officially designated it as "Writers' Day".

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