Annual Festivals >>

  • Tomb Sweeping Day Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Jie) was traditionally a time to remember deceased relatives.

  • Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao Jie) is one of three major festivals in Chinese folklore.

  • National Day China's National Day, on 1 October, celebrates the moment in 1949 when Chairman Mao Zedong stood in front of 300,000 people in Tiananmen Square and declared the founding of the People’s Republic.

  • Mid-Autumn Festival It was traditionally a time when people honoured the moon and round pastries, known as 'mooncakes', were given as offerings and families still come together to make them.

  • International Labor Day International Labor Day, which traditionally celebrated the efforts of farmers, workers and the socialist movement of the 1930s, is of particular significance in communist countries.

  • Dragon Boat Festival The Dragonboat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan (340-278BC), who drowned himself in a river during the Warring States Period.

  • Chinese New Year Also known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first month.

  • Temple Fairs Various Locations
    January or February