Is the winter solstice a holiday?

The Winter Solstice is a traditional festival. The main traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon's Head Raising (the second day of the second month), Social Festival (the second day of the second month), Ching Ming Festival (around the fifth day of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar), Tanabata (the seventh day of the seventh month of the Lunar Calendar), the half of the seventh month (the fourteenth/fifteenth day of the Lunar Calendar) and the Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar).

Among the twenty-four festivals, some of them are both natural festivals and traditional festivals, such as the Qingming Festival and the Winter Solstice. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural and traditional festivals.

In addition, China's ethnic minorities also have their own traditional festivals, such as the Dai's Water Festival, the Mongolian Naadam Assembly, the Yi's Torch Festival, the Yao's Danu Festival, the Bai's March Street, the Zhuang's Song Wei, the Tibetan Tibetan Calendar and Festival, and the Miao's Flower Jumping Festival.