What are the contents of celebrating National Day?

National Day is a national statutory holiday to commemorate one's own country. Celebrating the National Day in China includes decorating lanterns, a small national festival, free highways, military parade and National Day get-together. Once the National Day becomes a new and national holiday form, it bears the function of reflecting the cohesion of this country and nation.

1, lantern decoration

Every National Day in China, lanterns or banners are hung in public places such as enterprises, institutions and schools, and bonsai and hydrogen balloons with slogans are placed in the square to welcome the National Day with a happy atmosphere.

2. National Day holiday

China combines the National Day with the adjacent Saturday and Sunday into a 7-day National Day holiday, which is called "National Day Golden Week". With the coming of holidays, people can feel the happiness of National Day together.

The expressway is free.

With the improvement of people's living standards and the increasing popularity of private cars, people usually use the National Day holiday to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Since 20 12, private cars on expressways are free to pass during the National Day.

4. Military parade

Through the National Day military parade, people can not only feel the development, prosperity and military strength of the motherland, but also show the world China's powerful national defense force, which makes the people of the whole country feel a strong sense of pride.

5. National Day party

Only a stable country can make people live and work in peace and contentment, and be prepared for danger in times of peace. Therefore, the National Day party is sometimes an expression of remembering the painful experience, and also expresses the joy of the National Day in the form of cultural performances.

The origin of that word "national day"

The term "National Day" originally refers to a national celebration, which was first seen in the Western Jin Dynasty.

Lu Ji, a writer in the Western Jin Dynasty, once recorded in the article "On Five Governors": "National Day is only beneficial, and the main worry is not harmful." In the feudal era of our country, the great events celebrated by the whole country were nothing more than the emperor's accession to the throne and his birthday (the Qing Dynasty called the emperor's birthday Long live the festival). Therefore, in ancient China, the emperor's accession to the throne and birthday were called "National Day". Today, the anniversary of the founding of the country is called National Day.