✦ zenith calendar · the china almanac
the people's republic's official days off in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in a few plain paragraphs.
china is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the people's republic of china's official days off for everyone, as the national holiday measures name them, and on a phone set to china it starts lit.
these are the days off in law, not each year's full break: the longer breaks and the working weekends that make them up are announced each november. the lunar days come from published tables, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian and lunisolar · fixed civil days, with the lunar festivals and qingming from published tables
chunjie · the chinese new year
the eve and the first days of the 1st lunar month
the great reunion of the chinese year. the law gives the eve, chuxi, and the first three days of the first lunar month off.
the house is swept and stocked, the family comes home to dine together on the eve, and many stay awake to see the new year in. red couplets go up on the doors, and red envelopes are given to the young.
laodongjie
1 may, with the 2nd
international workers' day. the law gives the 1st and the 2nd off.
the state honours model workers. for most people the break, lengthened by moved weekends, is a time to travel and see family.
zhongqiu
the full moon of the 8th lunar month
the night the moon is at its brightest and roundest: a night of family reunion under the moon, and a day off for everyone.
families gather to look at the moon together and share mooncakes, whose round shape stands for reunion. children carry lanterns.
guoqingjie
1 october, with the 2nd and 3rd
the birthday of the people's republic of china. the law gives the 1st to the 3rd off.
crowds gather at dawn in tiananmen square to watch the national flag raised. with moved weekends the break becomes golden week, one of the busiest travel times of the year.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, china puts its days off on their days on that ring, in lilac. its mark is its flag, 🇨🇳.
each of its days off carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from (for a national day, as china tells it), and how it is kept.
china arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
china shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
china is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
china is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
china (the government's days off) ·
In 2027 the spring festival days off run from the eve, 5 February, through 8 February: the eve and the first three days of the first lunar month. The longer break and any working weekends are announced the November before.
Yes. Labour Day, 1 May, and the 2nd are days off in law; in 2027 they fall on a Saturday and Sunday.
The mid-autumn festival falls on 15 September 2027, the full moon of the eighth lunar month, and it is a day off for everyone in China.
National Day is 1 October, and the law gives 1 to 3 October off. With moved weekends the break becomes golden week.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called china: the People's Republic's official days off, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. On a phone set to China it starts lit, and turning it on costs nothing.
China is the People's Republic's official days off. Taoist is Chinese folk practice, the festivals families keep, and daoist is organized Daoism's temple days. They are separate almanacs, so you light the one you need.
No. It holds the days off the law names. The longer breaks and the weekends worked to make them up are announced each November, year by year.