How many days is the Spring Festival holiday in Vietnam?

In 2023, the Vietnamese Spring Festival will be closed for 7 days.

In 2023, public officials and employees of various administrative units, institutions and social and political organizations in Vietnam will have a seven-day holiday during the traditional Spring Festival and a four-day holiday during the National Day. In 2023, the Spring Festival holiday of Guimao Rabbit starts from Friday, 65438+1October 20th, and lasts for seven days until Thursday, 65438+1October 26th, 2023 (that is, from the 29th of the twelfth lunar month to the fifth day of the first month).

Historically, north-central Viet Nam has long been the territory of China. In the 3rd century BC, Qin Shihuang sent troops to conquer Baiyue (the general name for Yue people in ancient China) and established Xiang County, which included Vietnam.

During the peasant war at the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, a native of Hebei, was the chief of Longchuan in Qin Dynasty, and established Nanyue State in Lingnan with its capital in Nanhai (Guangzhou), which was the first independent country in Vietnamese history. Therefore, some people joked that Guangzhou was once the capital of Vietnam, and the founding emperor of Vietnam was from Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

The origin of Vietnamese Spring Festival;

Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that use the lunar calendar, and it is also one of the few countries that celebrate the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people.

Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally, preparations for the Spring Festival begin in the middle of February of the 65438+ lunar calendar. Flowers, Chinese New Year's jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers have always been indispensable for the Vietnamese Spring Festival.