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Home Life in Taiwan Holidays, Important Days Chinese New Year

2018 Year of the Dog

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February 9, 2021
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2018 Year of the Dog

Chinese New Year | Tomb Sweeping Day | Dragon Boat Festival | Mid Autumn Festival | 228 Incident | Double Ten Day | Teacher’s Day | Founding Day – New Years Eve | Ghost Month | Taiwan Official Holidays

Calendar of official government holidays for Taiwan (up to date as of January 1st, 2018)

Dates Holiday ObservedHolidayHoliday Details
 January 1stNew Years Day3 day weekend from Saturday to Monday
Wed Feb 14th **Chinese New Years EveChinese New Years Eve / **Technically not a hoilday
Thursday, Feb. 15 to Tuesday, Feb. 20thChinese New Year HolidayThe official CNY holiday is 6 days in 2018.
Wed. February 28thPeace Memorial DayPeace Memorial Day (Commemorating the 2/28 incident in 1947, which is every year  on February 28th).
Monday and Tuesday April 4th thru April 6thTomb Sweeping Day & Children’s DayIn 2018 Tomb Sweeping Day and Children’s day are being observed on from Wed. to Friday for a 5 day weekend.
Monday June 18thDragon Boat FestivalIn 2018 the Dragon Boat Festival is a 3 day holiday. The holiday commemorates Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese scholar, who lived in the third century BCE and served the king of Chu. After being exiled for crimes he did not commit, he drowned himself in a river, after which eating Zhongzi became a tradition to remember Qu Yuan (originally thought to be a way of preventing fish from eating his body).
Monday, September 24th.Mid-Autumn Festival2018 is a Monday giving Taiwanese a 3 day weekend. This festival is also commonly called the Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, and the Chinese Lantern Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, which translates to September or October in the Gregorian solar calendar.
Wednesday, October 10th.National Day2018 Double-Ten is one day this year.   The holiday commemorates the founding of the Republic of China on October 10th, 1911.
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