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A woman takes a smartphone photo of a dragon figure on display outside a luxury fashion retail store in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese calendar. (AP ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 28 January – 3 February – Chinese New Year; 4 April – Tomb-Sweeping Day; 1 – 2 May – Labour Day; 31 May – Dragon Boat Festival; 1 – 7 October – National Day; 6 October – Mid-Autumn Festival
18 September – A ten-year old student of a Japanese school dies in a knife attack in Shenzhen. The suspect is arrested. [81] 25 September – China carries out its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile since 1980, launching a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean [82] that lands near the Marquesas Islands. [83]
The date of the Chinese New Year accords with the patterns of the lunisolar calendar and hence is variable from year to year. The invariant between years is that the winter solstice, Dongzhi is required to be in the eleventh month of the year [ 43 ] This means that Chinese New Year will be on the second new moon after the previous winter ...
For thousands of years, China observed the Lunar New Year as the beginning of a new year until the government officially switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1912, which commemorates the day on ...
The Golden Week (simplified Chinese: 黄金周; traditional Chinese: 黃金週), in the People's Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000: [1] Chunyun [disputed – discuss], the Golden Week around the Chinese New Year, begins in January or February.
A traditional Chinese New Year dragon dance is performed in Liverpool’s Chinatown in January 2023. Credit - Getty Images. T he last time China’s birth rates peaked was in 2012: that year, for ...
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) 春节: Chūnjié: Based on Chinese calendar. Holidays last seamlessly, two full weeks, up to the Lantern Festival (see below). 15th day of 1st Lunisolar month: Lantern Festival: 元宵 节: Yuánxiāo jié: Based on Chinese calendar 2nd day of 2nd Lunisolar month: Zhonghe Festival (Dragon Raising its Head ...