What is the meaning of a holiday?

A sense of ceremony. It is a kind of folk culture created by the people of the world in order to adapt to the needs of production and life **** with the world folk culture.

Each ethnic group and region has its own festival. Some festivals originate from traditional customs, such as the Chinese Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Qingming Festival, and the Chongyang Festival. Some festivals originate from religion, such as Christmas in Christian countries.

Some festivals originate from the commemoration of someone or something, such as China's Dragon Boat Festival, National Day, Youth Day, and so on. There are also days designated by movements promoted by international organizations, such as Labor Day, Women's Day, and Mother's Day. Over time, the connotations of festivals and the way they are celebrated have changed.

And nowadays, festivals are often confused with holidays, and in fact most of them do not have legal holidays, such as some traditional Chinese festivals that still do not have holidays, such as the Chongyang Festival.

Evolutionary features:

Customs and rituals combined

Rituals are emphasized, and whenever an important festival comes, people pay homage to their ancestors to express their nostalgia for them. Such as the Spring Festival to worship ancestors, cold food, Qingming tomb sweeping, treatment of the dead, "death is like life" rituals in the festivals have been focused on ancestor worship.

The Qingming Festival was originally a folk custom, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong included in the ceremonial code, became a ritual. The Lantern Festival custom since the formation of the Han Dynasty, the successive generations to open the lamp, watching the lamp as a major event. Feudal rulers advocated the festival custom, the custom rose to rituals and customs, to rituals to educate the people, accelerated the spread and development of the festival, but also the festival into the orbit of feudal rites.