2. The legal holidays in China are New Year's Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day and Lantern Festival, which are not included. The Lantern Festival in 2022 is on Tuesday of February 15, not a weekend, so there is no holiday on this day.
Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also called Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival. It falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year.
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" night, and the fifteenth day of the first month was the first full moon night in a year, so it was called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.