China Holidays
China is a huge country with endless travel opportunities. But during the holidays, millions of migrant workers return home and travel millions of Chinese travelers may want to seriously consider debt restructuring. At a minimum, trips are planned long in advance. Each mode of transport is crowded and tickets of any kind are hard to find, so it may be necessary to book well in advance (especially for travelers from China’s far west on the east coast or in the direction opposite). Train and others are usually pretty easy to buy in China, but the difficulties that can not overcrowded conditions in these moments are overrated. Some travelers who are stranded in these moments were not able to buy tickets tend to sell slower.
Chinese Festival
Around Chinese New Year, many shops and other businesses for several days, a week or longer to be closed.
Data of the Chinese New Year
2008-7 February
2009-26 January
Februar 2010-14
China has three major annual festivals:
National Day – 1 October
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (春节 Chunjie) – end of January / February to mid-
Labour Day (May) – 1 May
It is not a holiday one day. The workers receive at least a week or two off for Chinese New Year, the students 4-6 weeks. Both groups receive about one week for National Day and Labour Day.
Also in July for millions of students and scholars return home in late August, they return to school, transportation options for disorders, especially between the east and the western provinces of Sichuan, Tibet and Xinjiang.
chinese new year
Spring Festival or Chinese Chunjie or Chinese New Year is particularly busy. It is not only the longest vacation he is also a time for his family to visit a bit like Christmas in the West. More or less all the students (in millions of 20-odd of them!) Go home, and more or less all the migrant workers, their farms and villages for better wages go left into the cities back home. It is often the only chance they have. Everyone wants to go home, and China has a lot of “everyone”!
For a complete list of Chinese festivals would be very long, since many regions or ethnic groups their own premises and those even under the Han Chinese have the celebrations vary from region to region. See the list of the cities for more details. Here is a list of some of the most of national importance are not mentioned above:
Lantern Festival
* Lantern Festival - 15 Day of the 1st Lunar month, just after Chinese New Year, usually in February or March. In some cities, such as Quanzhou, it is a festival of lanterns developed in the city.
Qingming Festival
* Qingming Festival – about 4 to 6 April, is as grave sweeping day “in English. The cemeteries are full with people going to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices crowded. The traffic on the way to the cemeteries will be difficult.
Dragon Boat Festival
* Dragon Boat Festival – 5 Day of the 5th Lunar month, usually in June. Boat races are traditionally a part of it.
Double seventh Festival
* Double seventh Festival - 7 Day of the 7th Lunar month, usually August, is a celebration of romance, a kind of Chinese Valentine’s Day.
Mid Autumn Festival
* Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Cake Festival - 15 Day of the 8th Lunar month, usually in October. They meet outside, food on the tables and looking at the sky while talking about life.
Double Ninth Festival
* Double Ninth Festival, or Chong Yang Festival – 9 Day of the 9th Lunar month, usually in October.
Winter Solstice Festival
* Winter Solstice Festival - 22 December or 23.
