Apart from several traditional Chinese festivals, modern Chinese people also celebrate some modern events, among which most of them are in compliance with festivals that celebrated worldwide.
New Year's Day, is also known as the New Year. It is the first day of the Gregorian calendar on January 1st. China, like most countries in the world holds solemn warm celebration on the New Year's Day.
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March 8th is the working women around the world win around for peace, equality, development of a few days. It is a international festival especially for women who fight for equal rights between women and men.
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May 1st is the International Labor Day. It is the holiday of commemorating the liberation of international working class. It is also praise for working, praising majority of workers world-wide.
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May 4th, is the Chinese Youth Day. This festival is established to commemorate the "May Forth Movement. May Forth Movement break out in 1919, it is a thorough against imperialism and feudalism Patriotic Movement, and also it is the beginning of the Chinese democratic revolution.
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June 1st is the International Children's Day. This is a festival for children from all over the world and also a commemoration day for care children around the world, love and peace, striving for the Children’s education right and healthy growth.
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September 10th is Chinese Teacher's Day. The setting up of Teacher's Day fully reflects the government's emphasis on education and on the respect for teachers.
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October 1st is the commemoration day of founding of New China; it is also China's National Day. On 1st October, 1949, Chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square raised the first Five-Star Red Flag (the national flag of the People's Republic of China) and solemnly declared to the world: the People's Republic of China is now established.
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