Next Chinese festival: Mid-Autumn Festival, 25 Sept 2026

Most festivals above are fixed to a day of the lunar calendar, not to a day of the Gregorian one. Mid-Autumn is always the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month; Dragon Boat is always the fifth day of the fifth. Because the lunar year runs about eleven days shorter than the solar year, and a leap month is inserted roughly every third year to correct it, those fixed lunar days land on a different Gregorian date each time.

Three entries behave differently and it is worth knowing why. Lunar New Year's Eve is the last day of the twelfth month, and that month runs 29 or 30 days depending on the year — so it has no fixed day number, only a fixed position. Qingming and Winter Solstice are fixed by exact solar-term instants instead of lunar dates, so they stay close to the same Gregorian dates each year.

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