| Lantern Festival - Friday March 2, 2018 Culture : Called Chap Go Meh, Yuan Xiao Jie, Yuen Siu or Shangyuan.
First full moon after the Chinese New Year - also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day.
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| Parliament recess (end) - Sunday March 4, 2018 Special Events :
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| Parliament recess (end) - Monday March 5, 2018 Special Events :
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| Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women - Friday March 8, 2019 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Tuesday March 12, 2019 cards/flowers : Tree-Planting Day
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| Parliament recess (beginning) - Tuesday March 20, 2018 Special Events :
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| Easter - Sunday April 1, 2018 Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
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| Tomb-Sweeping Day - Thursday April 5, 2018 Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Traditional celebration since the second century B.C. Considered an unlucky day for business. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Public holiday - Friday April 6, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Public holiday - Saturday April 7, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| WORKING DAY - Sunday April 8, 2018 Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) - Sunday April 15, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 2 weeks - https://www.cantonfair.net/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| F1 Grand Prix - Sunday April 15, 2018 Sports events : Www.formula1.com in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| Auto China - Tuesday April 24, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 1 week - http://www.ciec-expo.com in Beijing 2018 edition confirmed
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| National Day of Space Flight - Wednesday April 24, 2019 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)
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| WORKING DAY - Saturday April 28, 2018 Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Public holiday - Monday April 30, 2018 Secular holiday :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Tuesday May 1, 2018 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 .
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| Youth Day - Saturday May 4, 2019 Culture : Holiday for youth from the age of 14 to 28 (half-day)
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 13, 2018 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Air Cargo China - Wednesday May 16, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - http://www.aircargochina.com/ in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| SIAL China - Wednesday May 16, 2018 Tradeshows : Www.sialchina.com/ in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| Transport Logistic China - Wednesday May 16, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
www.transportlogistic-china.com in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| The Great Wall Marathon - Saturday May 19, 2018 Sports events : Www.great-wall-marathon.com/ 2018 edition confirmed
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| World Travel Fair - Thursday May 24, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days -
http://www.worldtravelfair.com.cn/ in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| Children's Day - Saturday June 1, 2019 School holidays :
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| Optional holiday - Saturday June 1, 2019 Secular holiday : Holiday for children below the age of 14 (1 day)
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| Shanghai Film Festival - Saturday June 9, 2018 Culture : Lasts 10 days please check dates: www.siff.com
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| Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) - Saturday June 16, 2018 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. 340–278 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]
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 17, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Regional holiday - Sunday June 17, 2018 Muslim, Sufi : End of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr Observed by 18 million Muslims in Eastern China
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| Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) - Monday June 18, 2018 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. 340–278 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]
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| Air Cargo China - Tuesday June 19, 2018 Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - http://www.aircargochina.com/ in Shanghai 2018 edition confirmed
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| Founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army - Sunday July 1, 2018 Culture : Started in 1927 with the start of the Chinese Civil War.
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Sunday July 1, 2018 School holidays :
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| Army Day - Wednesday August 1, 2018 Culture : Holiday for military personnel in active service (half-day)
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| Chinese Valentine's day - Friday August 17, 2018 cards/flowers : It was said that the Goddess of Heaven, out of pity, decided to let them unite once on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month as she was touched by their love for each other.
In some versions it is the Emperor of Heaven, the cowherd's father, or the cowherd's mother who has the role of separating the lovers for them to focus on their work instead of romance.
The star Deneb is a fairy who acts as a chaperone when the lovers meet on the magpie bridge. Rather than once a year, there is a version where the lovers were permitted to reunite once a month.
There is a belief that sometime during the night of Qixi, the two stars Altair and Vega will actually unite on the same side of the Milky Way.
Similar stories are told throughout Asia: in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia. In South-east Asia the stories were known as Sudhana Jataka, believed to be one of the stories of the past lives of the Buddha, or the jataka
[Wikipedia]
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| Ghost Festival - Saturday August 25, 2018 Culture : Hungry Ghost Festival (中元節 / 中元节) falls in the middle of the Ghost Month, supposed to be a bad time for business. Spirits being in high gear, thet are treated with a sumptuous feast, to please them and to bring luck to the family.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Friday August 31, 2018 School holidays :
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| Victory Day - Monday September 3, 2018 Culture : Commemorates Japan’s defeat in World War II
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| Teachers' Day - Monday September 10, 2018 cards/flowers :
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| Late mid-Autumn festival - Saturday September 22, 2018 Secular holiday : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Late mid-Autumn festival - Sunday September 23, 2018 Secular holiday : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Late mid-Autumn festival - Monday September 24, 2018 Secular holiday : paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| WORKING DAY - Saturday September 29, 2018 Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| WORKING DAY - Sunday September 30, 2018 Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
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| Heroes Day - Sunday September 30, 2018 Culture : To commemorate people who died in wars resisting foreign invaders
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