Chinese Festivals: Knowing the Roots

Henk R. Randau and Olga Medinskaya

Chapter 44 in China Business 2.0, 2015, pp 221-223 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Traditionally, China has always used the lunisolar calendar with month length determined by lunar phases with each month beginning on the darkest day. But with the end of the Empire in 1911, China switched to the more international Gregorian, or sun calendar—as used in all western countries—for standard dating. The lunisolar calendar, however, continues to hold influence. One of its most important influences is on the dating of festivals and holidays. These festivals, including the Chinese New Year and Moon Festival, fall on different dates of the Gregorian calendar each year because the two calendars have different year lengths. In contrast to traditional festivals, state holidays follow the Gregorian calendar (→see Fig. 44.1).

Keywords: Evil Spirit; Lunar Phasis; State Holiday; Chinese Employee; Spring Festival (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-07677-5_44

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319076775

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07677-5_44

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Management for Professionals from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().