The business world's No-Go Days!
China (Tibet) : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations
| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday January 1, 2022 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Monday January 3, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday January 29, 2022 | WORKING DAY | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday January 30, 2022 | WORKING DAY | Secular holiday | |
| Monday January 31, 2022 | Chinese New Years Eve | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Tuesday February 1, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Wednesday February 2, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Thursday February 3, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Friday February 4, 2022 | Monlam | Events, celebrations... | |
| Friday February 4, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Saturday February 5, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Sunday February 6, 2022 | Chinese New Year | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Monday February 28, 2022 | Buddhist New Year - Losar | Buddhism (Theravada) | |
| Thursday March 3, 2022 | Buddhist New Year - Losar | Events, celebrations... | |
| Tuesday March 8, 2022 | Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women | cards/flowers | |
| Monday March 28, 2022 | Tibet Liberation Day (Tibet only) | cards/flowers | |
| Saturday April 2, 2022 | WORKING DAY | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday April 3, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Monday April 4, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Tuesday April 5, 2022 | Tomb-Sweeping Day | Buddhism (Vajrayana) | |
| Sunday April 24, 2022 | WORKING DAY | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday April 30, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday May 1, 2022 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday | |
| Monday May 2, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Tuesday May 3, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday May 4, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday May 7, 2022 | WORKING DAY | Secular holiday | |
| Monday May 16, 2022 | Buddha's Enlightment | Events, celebrations... | |
| Wednesday June 1, 2022 | Optional holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday June 1, 2022 | Children's Day | School holidays | |
| Friday June 3, 2022 | Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) | Secular holiday | |
| Saturday June 4, 2022 | Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) | Secular holiday | |
| Sunday June 5, 2022 | Public holiday | Secular holiday | |
| Wednesday July 6, 2022 | Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Events, celebrations... | |
| Friday July 15, 2022 | Thangka | Events, celebrations... | |
New Year's Day
-Saturday January 1, 2022
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
Public holiday
-Monday January 3, 2022
Secular holiday :
WORKING DAY
-Saturday January 29, 2022
Secular holiday :
WORKING DAY
-Sunday January 30, 2022
Secular holiday :
Chinese New Years Eve
-Monday January 31, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : Employers who require employees to work during the holiday must pay three times the normal wages
Chinese New Year
-Tuesday February 1, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
-Wednesday February 2, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
-Thursday February 3, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
Monlam
-Friday February 4, 2022
Culture : Also known as The Great Prayer Festival. The event was established in 1409 by Tsong Khapa, the founder of the Geluk tradition. As the greatest religious festival in Tibet, thousands of monks (of the three main monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden) gathered for chanting prayers and performing religious rituals at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. [Wikipedia]
2022 edition confirmed
Chinese New Year
-Friday February 4, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
-Saturday February 5, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
-Sunday February 6, 2022
Buddhism (Vajrayana) : 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
Buddhist New Year - Losar
-Monday February 28, 2022
Buddhism (Theravada) : On the first day pilgrims go to pay homage to the most sacred statue of Sakya Muni in Jokhang temple and burn incense all around Jokhang as well as at all Tibetan homes.
Buddhist New Year - Losar
-Thursday March 3, 2022
Culture :
Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women
-Tuesday March 8, 2022
cards/flowers :
Tibet Liberation Day (Tibet only)
-Monday March 28, 2022
cards/flowers : Serfs' Emancipation Day
On March 28, 1959, Tibetan serfs and slaves, who accounted for more than 90 percent of the region's population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters,
WORKING DAY
-Saturday April 2, 2022
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
-Sunday April 3, 2022
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
-Monday April 4, 2022
Secular holiday :
Tomb-Sweeping Day
-Tuesday April 5, 2022
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
-Sunday April 24, 2022
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
-Saturday April 30, 2022
Secular holiday :
Labor Day/May Day
-Sunday May 1, 2022
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
-Monday May 2, 2022
Secular holiday :
Public holiday
-Tuesday May 3, 2022
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Public holiday
-Wednesday May 4, 2022
Secular holiday :
WORKING DAY
-Saturday May 7, 2022
Secular holiday :
Buddha's Enlightment
-Monday May 16, 2022
Culture : Called Saga Dawa in Tibet.
Celebrates the enlightenment of Buddha and his attainment of Nirvana upon his death. Crowds of pilgrims walk the sacred circuit around Jokhang and the old city of Lhasa (Linkor).
Optional holiday
-Wednesday June 1, 2022
Secular holiday : Holiday for children below the age of 14 (1 day)
Children's Day
-Wednesday June 1, 2022
School holidays :
Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats)
-Friday June 3, 2022
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)
-Saturday June 4, 2022
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]
Public holiday
-Sunday June 5, 2022
Secular holiday :
Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
-Wednesday July 6, 2022
Culture :
Thangka
-Friday July 15, 2022
Culture : The huge Gegu (embroidered thangka) is displayed in Tashilunpo monastery in Shigatse and thousands of pilgrims flock there to touch their foreheads to the sacred Thangka in order to be blessed. http://bhaktapuronline.com/
