How long is the holiday in France?
In French conversation, the most frequently used word is "holiday", and the greeting between friends is "where did you spend your holiday?" Or "where are you going for your holiday?" There are many festivals in France, and a unique festival culture has also been formed. Even the French themselves proudly said, "We are the world holiday champions!"
The French work 35 hours a week, and have five paid holidays a year. There are various festivals, besides New Year's Day, International Labor Day and National Day, there are also Armistice Day in World War I and Victory Day in World War II. In addition, some religious festivals are celebrated in France, including Easter, Jesus ascensiontide, Pentecost, Jesus ascensiontide and Christmas. If holidays and weekends are linked together, the French will also take a few days off together. They call it "bridging".
Because there are five weeks paid vacation every year, most people choose to take a vacation in summer. In July and August, many people choose to spend their holidays on the Mediterranean coast in southern France and bask in the sun. At this time, many cars on the roads in southern France are carrying bicycles, and some of them have rubber boats tied to the top, which is magnificent. These people go to the south of France or Spain for their holidays. On the edge of the French Mediterranean blue coastline, people sunbathing on the beach can be seen everywhere.
Therefore, during the summer vacation and National Day, people in big cities used to drive on the road one after another, highways were congested, trains and planes were full, tourist hotels were hard to find, and corporate profits declined. And those places with beautiful scenery, such as tourist attractions, seaside and mountain villages, are crowded. In order to cope with this phenomenon, the Ministry of Education divided France into three districts: A, B and C, and staggered the holiday dates to avoid traffic congestion.
Many shops in France are closed on holidays, especially in summer, and it is normal that few shops in the whole street are open. Because the French clearly distinguish between work and life, they never work on holidays. Every Christmas holiday, even at the airport, few people go to work. Usually, it may take 30 minutes to pass the security check. It may take two hours at this time, because many staff are on vacation and there are not enough people. Therefore, before the holidays, the French will reserve some food and commodities in advance to avoid not being able to buy them on holidays.
French people like to use their holidays to tan their skin, so that they will feel healthy and a symbol of wealth, because in the past, only rich people would go to the beach to bask in the summer sunshine. When I came back from vacation in September, I met him and said, "Ah, you are dark again." This is a joke between friends. Due to the economic recession and financial crisis in recent years, some people have no money to spend their holidays in other places, so the Paris municipal government has established a "Paris Beach" on the Seine River, where vacationers can sunbathe on the original road along the Seine River. Not only ordinary people take vacations, but also French government workers take vacations collectively. Macron, who was just elected president last year, took government members on vacation soon after taking office. He also went out on vacation with the first lady.
Most legal holidays in France were gradually formed with the improvement of legislation to protect workers after World War II. French historian Michel Deville Fu once told reporters: "French festivals are the crystallization of history and culture." A recent report seems to support the French statement: French people work 1700 hours a year on average, and there are 240 days out of 365 days a year. The French have about four months' holiday a year, plus various holidays on weekends. They work less hours than people in other developed countries. However, France's labor productivity exceeds that of the United States, Japan and Britain, ranking among the top three developed countries.
Second, the types of study abroad holidays in France
1, summer vacation
Vacances d 'é té, 2-4 months, May-September every year (if you pass the initial exam, you don't need to make up the exam, you will have a holiday from May to September, and students who want to make up the exam will have a holiday after all the subjects that need to make up the exam);
2. Winter vacation
Vacances d'hiver, 1-2 weeks, every February;
3. Spring break
Spring holiday, 1 week, April every year;
4. Halloween
Toussaint, 1 week 1 month1day;
5. Christmas
No? L, 2 weeks including New Year's Day, 65438+February every year;
6. New Year's Day
Zod Lean, 1,1;
7. Easter
p？ Ques, the first Sunday after the full moon at the vernal equinox every year;
8. The day after Easter
Randy de p? Ques, the first Monday after the full moon at the vernal equinox every year;
9. Labor Day
Labor Day, May1;
10, Victory Day of World War II
Freedom and Peace Festival, 8 May;
1 1, Jesus Ascension Day
Ascension, the fortieth day after Easter;
12, Pentecost
pentec？ Te, the fiftieth day after Easter;
13, Bastille day
July 65438, 2004;
14, Virgin ascensiontide
Assomption, August15;
15, liberation day
Armistics 19 18, 165438+ 10/.
Although there are many holidays in France, many schools will have various exams after the big holidays, so that is to say, although the school is on holiday, everyone is still in a state of learning during this time. But many schools will finish all the exams before the holidays, and some will take exams before and after the holidays, so learning is the main theme of studying abroad, so just relax a little during the holidays!
Generally speaking, in China, if the holiday falls on a Thursday, one day from last weekend or next weekend will be used to make up for last Friday's work, but the French do it simply. They won't take up the weekend, but go directly to faire le pont, a famous bridge in France. In other words, if the holiday falls on Thursday, it will last from Thursday to Sunday.
As we all know, strikes in France are very frequent. Of course, there is also a strike between students and teachers, which leads to the failure of normal classes in schools, so it is also a holiday for international students.