Holiday Notice from HMIvision

The Mid-Autumn Festival: 19th to 21st September.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (simplified Chinese: 中秋节; traditional Chinese: 中秋節), also known as Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated by Chinese. It is the second-most important holiday after Chinese New Year with a history dating back over 3,000 years when the Emperor of China worshipped the moon for bountiful harvests.

Type: Cultural, Religious
Significance: Celebrates the end of the autumn harvest
Celebrations: Lantern lighting, mooncake making, and sharing, courtship, and matchmaking, fireworks, family gathering, dragon dances, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, gift-giving
Observances: Consumption of mooncakes, Consumption of cassia wine
Date: 15th day of the eighth Chinese calendar month
Frequency: Annual

The National Day: 1st to 7th October.

National Day (Chinese: 国庆节; pinyin: guóqìng jié; lit. ‘national celebration day’), officially the National Day of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国国庆节), is a public holiday in China celebrated annually on 1 October as the national day of the People’s Republic of China, commemorating the formal proclamation of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949. The Chinese Communist Party victory in the Chinese Civil War resulted in the Kuomintang retreat to Taiwan and the Chinese Communist Revolution whereby the People’s Republic of China replaced the Republic of China.

Although it is observed on 1 October, another six days are added to the official holiday, normally in lieu of the two-weekend breaks around 1 October, making it a de facto public holiday comprising seven consecutive days also known as Golden Week (黄金周; huángjīn zhōu) with specifics regulated by the State Council.[4] Festivities and concerts are usually held nationwide on this day, with a grand military parade and mass pageant event held on select years. The parade held on 1 October 2019 marked the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.

Observed: by People’s Republic of China including Hong Kong and Macau
Type: Historical, cultural, nationalist
Significance: The day of the proclamation of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949
Celebrations: Festivities, including fireworks and concerts (a grand military parade every several years)
Date: 1 October
Frequency: Annual

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