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Dragon Boat Festival holiday arrangement 2024: June 8 to 10, 2024, a total of 3 days of holidays, of which June 10 is a legal holiday, June 8 (Saturday), June 9 (Sunday).

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals of the Chinese people, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. Since ancient times, there have been festival activities such as dragon boat racing and eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; in September 2009, UNESCO formally reviewed and approved the inclusion of China's Dragon Boat Festival in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, making it the first Chinese festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.