Tooky’s 2023 Holiday

2023 Chinese Holidays and Festivals

This article will let you know the official holidays of Chinese suppliers. Note that this content does not include Chinese traditional festivals, big or small.

Remark: Black font in the above dates are working days, red are rest days and yellow are holidays; please note the contents of the endorsement for special cases.

January, February and March

• New Year’s Day; 31th, Dec 2022 – 2nd, Jan 2023

• Chinese New Year in Ningbo Office; 17th – 28th, Jan 2023 (Ps; workshop holiday is 10th, Jan – 15th, Feb 2023)

• International Women’s Day；half day of 8th, Mar 2023

April, May and June

• Tomb-Sweeping Day; April 5 2023

• Labour Day; 29th Apr; 3th May 2023;

• Dragon Boat Festival; 22th – 24th Jun 2023

July to December

• Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day; 29th Sep – 6th Oct 2023

Top 10 Traditional Chinese Festivals, pls click here.

1. Chinese New Year (Dates, Traditions, Animal Signs )
2. China’s Lantern Festival: Traditions, Activities, Places To Go
3. Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day)
4. Dragon Boat Festival
5. Double Seventh Day – How to Celebrate China’s Valentine’s Day
6. Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
7. Winter Solstice (Dongzhi) Festival
8. Summer Solstice (xià zhì夏至) — the Longest Day
9. The Double Ninth Festival
10. Hungry Ghost Festival

Know more about Chinese New Year, pls click here.

1. What Is the 2023 Chinese Zodiac Animal? – Rabbit
2. Why Is Chinese New Year Celebrated? – it is a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. legend states that the Chinese New Year stemmed from an ancient battle against the Nian (/nyen/, which sounds the same as ‘year’ in Chinese), a terrifying beast that showed up every Lunar New Year’s Eve to eat people and livestock. To scare away the monster, people displayed red paper, burned bamboo, lit candles, and wore red clothes. These traditions have been continued until the present time.
3. How Long Is Chinese New Year? – Celebrations of Chinese New Year traditionally last for 16 days, starting from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival.
4. Chinese New Year Traditions –
   • putting up decorations,
   • offering sacrifices to ancestors,
   • eating reunion dinner with family on New Year’s Eve,
   • giving red envelopes and other gifts,
   • firecrackers and fireworks, and
   • watching lion and dragon dances.
5. Chinese New Year Food –
   • Fish is a must as it sounds like ‘surplus’ in Chinese and symbolizes abundance.
   • Dumplings shaped like Chinese silver ingots are shared as a sign of the family unit and prosperity.
   • Niángāo (glutinous rice cake) is welcome because it symbolizes a higher income or position as it sounds like ‘year high’.
6. Chinese New Year Superstitions: Things You Mustn’t Do –
   1. Don’t sweep up on New Year’s Day, otherwise you’ll ‘sweep all your luck away’.
   2. Don’t eat porridge for breakfast, otherwise you’ll ‘become poor in the upcoming year’.
   3. Don’t wash your clothes and hair (on New Year’s Day), otherwise you’ll ‘wash fortune away’.