National Holidays
In China, there are seven statutory holidays nationwide, of which four of them are traditional Chinese festivals, seeing the details following,
One-day holiday for New Year’s Day (on Jan.1)
Three-day holiday for Spring Festival (on Spring Festival Eve, the first and second day of lunar January)
One-day holiday for Tomb-sweeping Festival (around April 4 and April 5)
One-day holiday for International Labor Day (on May. 1)
One-day holiday for Dragon Boat Day (the fifth day of lunar May)
One-day holiday for Mid-autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of lunar August)
Three-day holiday for National Day (on Oct. 1, 2 and 3)
In general, adjacent weekends are adjusted to join these festival holidays; thus, these one-day festival holidays are adjusted to be three-day holidays, while three-day festival holidays are adjusted to be seven-day holidays.
Related Readings
- Spring Festival
- Lantern Festival
- Qingming festival / Tomb Sweeping Day / Cold Food Festival
- Dragon Boat Festival
- Qiqiao Festival / Double Seventh Festival
- Ghost festival / Zhongyuan Festival
- Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
- Double Ninth Festival / Chongyang Festival
- Laba Rice Rorridge Festival
- Winter Solstice Festival
- Dragon-Head-Raising Festival / Longtaitou
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