Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festiv al and the Double Fifth, is a traditional and statutory holida y originating in China and associated with a number of East Asian and Southeast Asian societies. In Mandarin, it is known by the name Duānwǔ Ji é; in Hong Kong and Macau, by the Cantonese name Tuen Ng Festival; in Hokkien-spe aking areas, by the names Gō͘-go̍eh-cheh/Gō&# 856;-ge̍h-choeh (五月節) and Gō͘-ji ̍t-cheh/Gō͘-ji̍t-choeh (五日 680;). In 2008, it was recognised as a public holiday in mainland China for the first time since the 1940s.< span>[1]< span>[2] The festival has also long been cele brated in Taiw an, Singapore, and Malaysia. Equivalent and related festivals in Asia include the Kodomo no hi in Japan, Dano in Korea, and Tết Đoan Ngọ in Vietnam.
The fes tival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar on which the Chinese calendar is based. This is the source of the a lternative name of Double Fifth.[ 3] In 2011, this fell on June 6. The focus of the celebrations includes eating the rice dumpling zongzi (Chinese: 粽子; pinyin: zòngzi)[4], drinking realgar wine< /a> xionghuangjiu (Chinese: 雄 ;黃酒; pinyin: Xiónghuángjiǔ), and rac ing dragon boats.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (July 1st, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Special-Administrative-Region-Establishment-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Special-Administrative-Region-Establishment-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Da y (Chinese: 香港 9305;別行政區成立紀念ਰ 5;) is celebrated every 1 July, in Hong Kong since 1997. The holiday commemorates the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the Unit ed Kingdom to the People's Republic of China and the establishment of the < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Special_Administrative_Regio n" title="Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" class="mw-redirect">Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The day is customarily marke d by an officially organised extravagant fireworks display in the evening, and is also the platform for political rallies demanding universal suffrage . In 2007, to commemorate the 10th Anniversary celebration the Hong Kong Go vernment published a song, "Just Because You Are Here" (Chinese: 始 ;終有你). It was sung by many Hong Kong singers an d composed by Peter Kam (金培達) with lyric by Keith Chan (陳少琪).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:the Mid-Autumn Festival (September 25th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Mid-Autumn-Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Mid-Autumn-Festival-00078043 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese: 中秋節), also known as the < b>Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival , is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people" title="Vietnamese p eople">Vietnamese people.[1] A description of the festival first appeared in Rites of Zhou, a written collection of rituals of the Western Zhou Dynasty from 3,000 ;years ago.[1] The celebration became popular during the early Ta ng Dynasty.[1] The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or ea rly October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox.[1] The Government of the People's R epublic of China listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritag e" in 2006, and it was made a Chinese public holiday in 2008.[1] It is also a Republic of China (Taiwan) public holiday.
The M id-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Spring Festival and Winter Solstice.[1]< /a> Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or re gional customs, such as:
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:National Day (China) (October 1st, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/National-Day-CN DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261001 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-National-Day-CN-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The National Day of the People's Republic of China ( simplified Chinese: 国庆节; traditional Chinese: 國慶節; pinyin: guóqìng jié ) is celebrated every year on October 1. It is a public holiday in the Peopl e's Republic of China to celebrate their national day . [2]
The PRC was founded on October 1, 1 949 with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. The Central People's Governmen t passed the Resolution on the National Day of the People's Republic of China on December 2, 1949 and declared that October 1 is the National D ay.[< /span>3]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:the Double Ninth Festival (October 18th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Double-Ninth-Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Double-Ninth-Festival-00078043 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Double Ninth Festival (Chung Yeung Festival in Ho ng Kong, Vietnamese: < b>Tết Trùng Cửu), observed on the ninth d ay of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar, is a traditional Chinese holiday, mention ed in writing since before the East Han period (before AD 25) .
According to the I Ching, nine is a yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (or double nine) has too much yang (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially dangerous date. Hence, the day is also called "Double Yang Festival" (重༌ 5;節). To protect against danger, it is customary to climb a high mou ntain, drink chrysanthemum wine, and wear the zhuyu (茱 3848;) plant, Cornus officinalis. (Both chrysanthemum and zhuyu are considered to have cleansing qualities and are used on other occasions to air out houses and cure illnesses.) On this holiday som e Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. P eople eat Chongyang Cake on the day.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas Eve (December 24th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas-Eve DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261224 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-Eve-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas Eve refers to the evening preceding Christmas Day, a < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_worldwide" title="Christmas worldwide">widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of N azareth that takes place on December 25.[4] It is a culturally significant celebration for most of the Western world and i s widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day.
One reason celebrations occur on Christmas Eve is because the t
raditional Christian liturgical day starts at sunset,[5] an inheritance from Jewish tradition,[6] which in tur
n is based in the story of creation in Genesis: "And there was evening, and
there was morning – the first day."[7] This liturgical day i
s followed for all days in the Eastern rite[8] and the cu
stom of beginning Christmas celebration (as well as Sunday and the other ma
jor festivals) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches th
at have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Ro
man Catholic Church.[9] Many churches still ring
their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays; for exa
mple the Nordic Lutheran churches.
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5][6
] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3][4] a
s a religious and cultural holiday by billions of peopl
e around the world. A feast central to the
Ch
ristian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.[7]<
/a> Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9][10] is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,[1][11][12] and is an integral part
of the Christmas and holiday season.
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some histo
rians place between 7 and 2 BC, is unknown.[13]
Boxing Day is traditionally a day following Christma s when wealthy people in the United Kingdom would give a box containing a g ift to their servants.[1] Today, Boxing Day is bette r known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on December 26, or the firs t or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and some other Commonwealth nations.
In South Africa, Boxing Day w as renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In Ireland it is recogn ized as St. Stephen's Day (Irish: Lá Fh&eacut e;ile Stiofáin) or the Day of the Wren (Irish: Lá an Dreoilín). In the Netherla nds, Latvi a, L ithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia and Poland, December 26 is celebrated as the Second Ch ristmas Day.[2]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:New Years Day (January 1st, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/New-Years-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270101 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-New-Years-Day-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first d ay of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as th e Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the close st thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated wi th firew orks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the J ulian calendar currently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian c alendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in the United States.[1]
The Romans dedicated this day to Jan us, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reform ed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate vo ted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC < span>[2] in honor of his life and his institu tion of the new rationalized calendar.[3] The month originally owes its name to th e deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into off ice on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[4] Dates in March, coin ciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns runni ng from January to December.[citation needed]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Chinese New Year (February 6th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Chinese-New-Year DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270206 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Chinese-New-Year-00078044 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:the spring festival
Chinese New Year is the mo st important of the traditional Chinese holid ays. In Chin a, it is known as "Spring Festival," the literal translation of the Chinese name 春節 (Pinyin: Chūnjié), since the spring season in Chinese calendar starts with lichun, the first solar term in a Chinese c alendar year. It marks the end of the winter season, analogous to the Weste rn Carniva l. The festival begins on the first day of the first month (Chine se: 正月; pinyin: Zhēng yuè) in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with La ntern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is kno wn as Chúxī (除夕) or "Eve of the Passing Ye ar." Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Good Friday (March 26th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Good-Friday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270326 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Good-Friday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:April 6 (Western)
Good Frida
y (from the senses pious, holy of the word "good"),[1] is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is ob
served during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday pr
eceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Je
wish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Fri
day, Black Friday,[2
Holy Saturday (Latin:
Holy Saturday is sometime s called Easter Saturday,[ 2] though this phrase is more correctly applied to t he Saturday in Easter Week.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Saturday#cite_note-2">[3]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter (Western) (March 28th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270328 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter (Old Englis
h: Ēostre) or Pas
cha (Greek: Πάσχ&
alpha;, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא Pasḥa
; from Hebrew: פ&
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Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in rel ation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[8] Ecclesiastically, th e equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, as tronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is n ot necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefor e varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity< /a> bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March co rresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian c alendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter Monday (Western) (March 29th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter-Monday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270329 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-Monday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter Monday (also known as Egg Nyte) is the day after Eas ter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox cultures. Easter Monday in the R oman Catholic liturgical calendar is th e second day of the octave of Easter Week and analogously i n the Eastern Orthodox Church is the second day of Bright Week.
Forme rly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular cel ebration, but in many places this was reduced to one day in the 19th centur y. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other peopl e with water which traditionally had been blessed with holy water the day bef ore at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:the Qingming Festival (April 5th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Qingming-Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270405 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Qingming-Festival-00078044 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:The Qingming Festival (simplified Chinese: 清
明节; traditional Chin
ese: 清明節; pinyin<
/a>: Qīngmíng Jié; Pe&#
781;h-ōe-jī: Chheng-bêng-cheh or Chhiⁿ-miâ-
choeh, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese:
Qingming has been regularly observed as a st atutory public holiday in Taiwan and in the Chinese jurisdictions of Hong Kong and Macau. Its o bservance was reinstated as a nation wide public holiday in mainland Chin a in 2008.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T085742Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Buddhas Birthday (May 13th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Buddhas-Birthday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270513 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Buddhas-Birthday-00078044 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Buddha's Birthday, the birthday of the Prince Sidd hartha Gautama, is a holiday traditionally celebrated in Mahayana Buddhism.
In all east Asian countries, except Japan be ginning in 1873, it is held on the 8th day of the 4th month in the Ch inese lunar calendar, and the day is an official holiday in Hong Kong, Macau, and S outh Korea. The date varies from year to year in the Gregorian ca lendar:
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