Chinese New Year Festival In China

Chinese new year also known as lunar new year or spring festival is china s most important festival.

Chinese new year festival in china. 2014 by the president of the philippines declaring the regular holidays special non working days and special holiday for all schools for the year 2015 press release. As christmas is the biggest western festival chinese new year is the most important festival in china with a long celebrating history. List of dates for other years.

Most of these organizations will close from the spring festival eve to the seventh day of the first lunar month in the calendar of china or even sooner it based on their works requirements. It is time for families to be together and a week of an official public holiday. China new year or spring festival is a national holiday in china.

As well as celebrating the first signs of the beginning of spring it celebrates everybody s birthday because in china you reckon you are one year older at the spring festival rather than on the anniversary of your birth. Chinese new year also known as spring festival or lunar new year is the grandest festival in china with a 7 day long holiday. Chinese new year china s grandest festival longest public holiday.

7 days the official holiday in mainland china is 7 days and starts on chinese new year s day and ends on the 6th day of the 1st month of lunar calendar. Chinese new year celebrations also known as the spring festival in china start on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month of the chinese calendar the festival lasts for about 23 days ending on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the following year in the chinese calendar. Chinese new year s eve is the day before chinese new year and its history can be traced back 3 500 years.

Image by falco available under a creative commons license. Chinese new year saigon vietnam. Chinese new year is one of the most important traditional holidays in china.

China s public holiday will be february 11 17 2021. Read more show less. Chinese new year 2021 falls on friday february 12 2021 beginning a year of the ox.