April's holiday calendar

April holiday calendar: April 5-7, 20 18, with three days off, April 5 as a legal holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day and April 8 as a normal working day.

April Fool's Day, also known as April Fool's Day and Humor Festival, is a traditional folk festival in western society and is celebrated on April 1 day every year. April Fool's Day is similar to the fun festival in ancient Rome and the joy festival in India.

In some countries in Europe and America, on this day, people play jokes on people around them in various ways. When the deceived person is told that today is April Fool's Day, it suddenly dawns, so this day can always lead to many jokes, but some jokes will also cause people's panic because they are too big, or change the situation and become (network) rumors. But jokes can only be played until noon at the latest 12, which is a strict rule by convention.

April 5, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 104 days after the winter solstice. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although customs vary from place to place, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the basic themes.

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.