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The Spring Festival or Chinese New Year Day is the biggest event in Shanghai's calendar. Visit the Longhua Temple which has large celebrations with dragon and lion dances if you attend to go there during the time. A lovely time to visit with people carrying colored paper lanterns is on the Lantern Festival on February. A Temple Fair is held at Langhua Temple on the third day of the third lunar month which is around April.
The Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival is usually at the end of April. At the same month, there is also Tomb Sweeping Day which is a day of worshipping ancestors in which people visit the graves of their departed relatives and often burn ghost money to them for use in the afterworld as believed.
On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June), the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a third-century-BC poet-statesman who drowned himself to protest against the corrupt government. The Shanghai Beer Festival comes into town around the end of July. The Moon Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival takes place in September on the 15th day of the 8th moon. That's the time for you to eat the tasty moon cakes! The Shanghai Tourism Festival occurs in late September and offers a wide variety of cultural programs while in November and early December, there's an annual International Arts Festival shown.
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4 May |
Youth Day |
| 1 January |
New Year's Day |
| 1 May |
International Labour Day |
| 8 March |
International Working Women's Day |
| February |
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) |
| 1 August |
Anniversary of the Founding of the PLA |
| 1 July |
Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party |
| 1 June |
Children's Day |
| 1 October |
National Day |
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