What festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 2019? Is the Lantern Festival a legal holiday?

What festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 2019? Is the Lantern Festival a legal holiday?
Introduction: The first month of the lunar year is an important month, and many festivals are held in this month. So what festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 2019? Is the Lantern Festival a legal holiday? The various festivals in the first month of the lunar calendar will come soon after the Spring Festival. Following Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019, let’s count how many important traditional festivals and customs there are in this month.

What festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 2019?

Lunar calendar 2019 Lantern Festival date:
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Pig, 6 days away from the 2019 Lantern Festival)

Yuanxiao originally meant "the night of the Lantern Festival". Because the main activity of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is eating glutinous rice balls and admiring the moon at night, the name of the festival later evolved into "Lantern Festival".
On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lights, people admire the lanterns, guess lantern riddles, and eat Lantern Festival rice dumplings, bringing the celebrations that began on New Year's Eve to another climax and becoming a custom passed down from generation to generation. When the Lantern Festival was in its early stages of being a festival, it was only called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the middle of the first lunar month, or the full moon. After the Sui Dynasty, it was called Yuan Xi or Yuan Ye.
Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, and it was occasionally called Yuanxiao in the late Tang Dynasty. But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi. In the Qing Dynasty, it was called the Lantern Festival. Abroad, the Lantern Festival is also known as The Lantern Festival.

Is the Lantern Festival a legal holiday?

The Lantern Festival is not a national holiday, but it is a traditional festival with a long history in my country. The Lantern Festival began during the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Emperor Ming promoted Buddhism. He heard that in Buddhism, monks would view Buddha relics and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. So he ordered that lanterns be lit in the imperial palace and temples on that night to worship Buddha, and ordered that all nobles and common people hang lanterns. Later, this Buddhist ritual festival gradually became a grand folk festival.
The Lantern Festival has gone through a development process from the palace to the people, and from the Central Plains to the whole country. During the Han Dynasty, people in the countryside held torches to drive away insects and animals, hoping to reduce pests and pray for a good harvest. To this day, people in some southwestern China still make torches out of reeds or branches on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and dance in groups in fields or threshing grounds with torches held high. Since the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, it has been at its peak, with tens of thousands of people participating in the singing and dancing, from dusk to dawn.
Dates for the 2019 Lantern Festival:
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Pig, six days away from the 2019 Lantern Festival) The 2019 Lantern Festival is a working day, so there will be no holiday on this day!


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