When did the country make Tomb-Sweeping Day a legal holiday?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China, with a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day for China people to pay homage to their ancestors. On this day, people cherish the memory of their ancestors, place their grief, inspire future generations, strengthen their sense of obligation to support their parents and grandparents, and have a strong sense of patriotism. It will play a positive role in inheriting and carrying forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation and improving people's quality of life.

On February 7th, 2007, the 1 98th executive meeting in the State Council adopted the Decision of the State Council on Amending the National Festival and Memorial Day, and designated "Tomb-Sweeping Day" as a legal holiday, which will be implemented from June 65438+ 10/day. April 4th, 2008-the first "Tomb-Sweeping Day" legal holiday.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through the historical development and evolution, Tomb-Sweeping Day has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been formed in different places, with sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking as the basic themes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally meant grave-sweeping day, and the government of the Republic of China designated 15 days after the vernal equinox in 935 as a national holiday, also known as the national grave-sweeping day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by the Ministry of Culture of China was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day Baidu Encyclopedia