Martyrs' Day
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Wednesday december 13, 2023
Culture : Memorial day for the victims of Nanjing Massacre
Christmas Day
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Monday december 25, 2023
cards/flowers : Only observed by a part of the population. Not an official holiday.
Mao celebration
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Tuesday december 26, 2023
Culture : Former Communist President was born in Changsha on Dec. 26, 1893
Public holiday
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Saturday december 30, 2023
Secular holiday :
New Year's Day
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Monday january 1, 2024
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival
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Friday january 5, 2024
Culture : Www.icefestivalharbin.com/ Lasts 1 month -
WORKING DAY
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Sunday february 4, 2024
Secular holiday :
Chinese New Years Eve
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Friday february 9, 2024
Secular holiday : Employers who require employees to work during the holiday must pay three times the normal wages
Chinese New Year
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Saturday february 10, 2024
Secular holiday : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Chinese New Year
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Chinese New Year
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Valentine's Day
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Chinese New Year
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Chinese New Year
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Thursday february 15, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Chinese New Year
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Friday february 16, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Chinese New Year
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Saturday february 17, 2024
Secular holiday : The Chinese calendar combines lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. To match the solar calendar, an extra month is added once every few years (seven years out of a 19-year cycle). Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
WORKING DAY
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Sunday february 18, 2024
Secular holiday :
Lantern Festival
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Saturday february 24, 2024
Culture : Called Chap Go Meh, Yuan Xiao Jie, Yuen Siu or Shangyuan.
First full moon after the Chinese New Year - also known as Chinese Valentines Day.
Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women
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Friday march 8, 2024
cards/flowers :
Arbor Day
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Tuesday march 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Tree-Planting Day
Parliament recess (end)
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Tuesday march 12, 2024
Special Events :
Tomb-Sweeping Day
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Thursday april 4, 2024
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Tomb-Sweeping Day
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Friday april 5, 2024
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Tomb-Sweeping Day
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Saturday april 6, 2024
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
WORKING DAY
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Sunday april 7, 2024
Secular holiday :
China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair)
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Monday april 15, 2024
Tradeshows : Https://www.cantonfair.net/ lasts 2 weeks - 2024 edition confirmed
F1 Grand Prix
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Sunday april 21, 2024
Sports events : Www.formula1.com
in Shanghai
2024 edition confirmed
National Day of Space Flight
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Wednesday april 24, 2024
Special Events : On April 24, 1970, China launched its first man-made earth satellite, Dongfanghong-1, making China the fifth country then to launch a domestically produced satellite using domestically produced rockets (the other four countries were Russia, the US, France and Japan)
WORKING DAY
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Sunday april 28, 2024
Secular holiday :
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Public holiday
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Thursday may 2, 2024
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
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Friday may 3, 2024
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
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Saturday may 4, 2024
Secular holiday :
WORKING DAY
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Saturday may 11, 2024
Secular holiday :
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
The Great Wall Marathon
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Saturday may 18, 2024
Sports events : Www.great-wall-marathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
SIAL China
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Tuesday may 28, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.sialchina.com/ in Shanghai 2024 edition confirmed
Children's Day
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Saturday june 1, 2024
School holidays :
Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats)
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Saturday june 8, 2024
Secular holiday : The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ), and racing dragon boats.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday [Wikipedia]
Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats)
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Monday june 10, 2024
Secular holiday : The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ), and racing dragon boats.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday [Wikipedia]
Fathers' Day
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Sunday june 16, 2024
cards/flowers :
Transport Logistic China
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Tuesday june 25, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
www.transportlogistic-china.com in Shanghai 2024 edition confirmed
Air Cargo China
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Tuesday june 25, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.aircargochina.com/ Lasts 3 days - in Shanghai 2024 edition confirmed