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Is there a legal holiday for the Spring Festival in China?

The national Spring Festival holiday lasts for 3 days.

The national statutory paid holidays for the Spring Festival are three days, namely, the first day, the second day and the third day. Now most companies have a seven-day holiday, from New Year's Eve to the sixth and seventh day of work. Spring Festival is the beginning of a year, commonly known as Chinese New Year. Spring Festival, also known as New Year, New Year and New Year, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

During the Spring Festival, people will set off firecrackers, one is to drive away Nian beast, and the other is to celebrate. During the Spring Festival, every household will hold various celebration activities, such as ancestor worship, throwing off the old cloth and putting on the new. Sticking New Year's Red, people will stick Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures and blessings on their doors, adding festive atmosphere and pinning people's beautiful expectations for the new year and new life.

Introduction to Spring Festival:

Headed by the centennial festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. Since the end of the year, people have been busy with the Chinese New Year, such as offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, putting up New Year's greetings, washing their hair and taking a bath, decorating with lanterns and so on. All these activities have the same theme, that is, to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. The Spring Festival is a joyful, peaceful and family reunion festival, and it is also a carnival festival, which is an eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom.