Chinese New Year (including the Lantern Festival on day 15), Mid-Autumn Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are the most important and widely celebrated Chinese holidays. However there are quite a few other holidays celebrated by their lunar dates.
January 19, 2009 - Kitchen God Festival.
January 26, 2009 - Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1, Year of the Ox, 4707
February 1, 2009 - Common Man's birthday - This is celebrated more by Chinese in other parts of Asia, more than in China.
February 3, 2009 - Jade Emperor's Birthday
February 9, 2009 - Lantern Festival - lunar date 1/15 - This is also celebrated as a sort of Valentine's Day in some Chinese communities.
Tomb Sweeping Day April 4, 2009
(lunar 3/23) Tin Hau Festival - Taoist Goddess of the Sea and patron of fisherman. Celebration now is limited to smaller communities in fishing islands, or areas immediately around a Tin Hau temple. (There are about 60 temples in Hong Kong dedicated, at least partially, to Tin Hau.)
Buddha's Birthday (lunar 4/8) - This is now a public holiday in Hong Kong. In Cheung Chau, HK, the Cheung Chau Bun Festival is also held on this day, in honor of Pak Tai, the Taoist God of the Sea.
May 28, 2009 - Dragon Boat (Tuen Ng) Festival - lunar 5/5, Considered the third most important Chinese holiday
August 26, 2009 - "Valentine's Day" - "Night of Sevens" - 7/7 lunar
September 3, 2009 - Ghost Day - 7/15 lunar
October 3, 2009 - Mid-Autumn Festival - 8/15 lunar
October 26, 2007 - "Double Nine" Chong Yang Festival - 9/9 on the lunar calendar
Winter Solstice "Dong Zhi" Falls on December 20-22. It is December 21st in 2009.
The 27th year of this cycle begins:
February 7, 2010 - Kitchen God Festival
February 14, 2010 - Chinese New Year - lunar 1/1, Year of the Tiger, 4708
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