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Time table, Festivals and Holidays
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Working timetable
Office hours are usually between 8:00 - 12:00 in the morning and 2:00 - 6:00 in the afternoon, in Beijing, the working hours are 1: 00 - 5:00 in the afternoon. There may also be local changes for winter and summer seasons elsewhere.
Chinese traditional festivals, public holidays and vacations
China is a country with many nationalities. Each nationality has its own customs and traditional festivals and each festival usually has fascinating legends associated with it.
Chun Jie (The Spring Festival)
The Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important festival in China, and its celebration dates back to some two thousand years ago. It marks the beginning of the lunar year, and is the time when families get together and are reunited if they have been separated. The date of the festival varies each year, but is usually in late January or early February according to the Gregorian calendar. On Lunar New Year's eve, the sound of firecrackers can be heard throughout the night, signifying "doing away with the old and making way for the new". The practice of letting off firecrackers, however, is on the decline because many cities have banned their use to prevent fires and accidents caused by the paper bombs. It is an old custom for people to stay up late or all night on New Year's eve. In cities, most people stay up late watching TV, playing cards, dancing or preparing food for the next day.
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| Yuan Xiao Jie (The Lantern Festival)
The Lantern Festival falls 15 days after the Lunar New Year. It is a tradition to hang decorative lanterns in public places and eat "Yuan Xiao", a kind of glutinous rice flour ball with a sweet or savory filling.
Qing Ming Jie (The Pure Brightness Festival)
The Pure Brightness Festival, is the fifth of the 24 solar terms according to the traditional Chinese calendar, which are defined according to the position of the sun in the zodiac. The festival takes place on the fourth or fifth day of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, and on this day people usually go to tidy or "sweep" the graves of their departed friends and relatives, and of revolutionary martyrs.
Duan Wu Jie (The Dragon Boat Festival )
The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It originates as a means to propitiate the river dragon gods into a popular festival commemorating the suicide of QuYuan, a poet of the Warring States Period (475 -221BC) who could no longer bear the moral degeneration of his state. On the fifth day of the fifth month in the Lunar calendar dragon boat races are held in commemoration of those who tried to save the poet and as an offering to the river gods. Dragon boat racing has now become a popular sport in China.
Zhong Qiu Jie (The Mid-Autumn Festival)
The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth Lunar month, the middle of autumn in the traditional Chinese calendar. It takes place at harvest time on the night of the full moon, which symbolized unity. Moon cakes are eaten on this auspicious day. These are round cakes filled with dried fruits, and are symbolic of the perfect roundness of the moon at the time of the festival.
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| Chong Yang Jie (Double Nine Festival)
Double Nine Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the 9th day of the 9th month of the Chinese Lunar calendar. In the "Books of Changes", nine (9) is defined as a positive figure ("Yang"), and "Chong" in Chinese means "double", so it is called "Double-Nine Day". On the day people go outing, climbing, kite-flying, drink wine (chrysanthemum wine) and eat cakes. The day has been appointed as "Senior Citizens' Day"," Nine" pronounces the same sound as "longevity" in Chinese, so on the daywhen they celebrate the festival people do things to show respect and wishes of longevity to their elderly.
Other festivals:
Water Splashing Festival is New Year's Day of the Dai and some other minority nationalities residing on Hainan Island, which falls on the 15th day of the 6th month of the Dai calendar usually on a mid-April day. Early in the morning during the festival, female villagers would gather to pour water over Buddhist sculptures "to wash the dust off'. After that, villagers, especially boys and girls, would sprinkle water on each other, believing that diseases and germs can thus be eliminated.
Christmas and Easter for Chinese Christians, and Corban Ramadan for Muslims are also observed among some people in some places.
Public holidays
New Year's Day (one day off);
Spring Festival (three days off);
Labour Day (May 1, three days off);
The National Day (October 1, three days off )
School/University semesters
Generally, Chinese School Year's first semester starts from September, ends in January. The second semester starts from February, ends in July.
Foreign experts are entitled to the above holidays and many activities are arranged both locally and nationally to which experts will be invited. In addition, experts are entitled to holidays on occasions of important festivals in their own countries, such as Christmas, water-splashing festival, Corban, etc.. Work schedules must be arranged to fit in with such holidays, as the Chinese |
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