[Korganizer-devel] [Bug 202911] Holiday file for P.R. China

[Christophe Giboudeaux]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202911





--- Comment #4 from Christophe Giboudeaux <cgiboudeaux gmail com>  2009-08-08 12:25:41 ---
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > - According to my sources, the spring festival is a 7 days off event.
> 
> It usually is - but only three days are really "fixed" public holidays, which I
> indicate by
> "春节 (Chinese New Year / Spring Festival)" weekend on 25 january 2009 length 3
> days
> then, there were three days off (but not real public holidays, so some
> companies still let their employees work, AFAIK) in 2009, indicated by
> yellow "节假日 (day off)" weekend on 28 january 2009 length 3 days
> and the next day is a Saturday. Seven days off in a row.
> 

> > - Why do you mention the working days without mentioning why it is a special
> > date ?
> 
> I don't quite understand. Do you mean I should add a note like "working day
> because ... was a day off"? The problem is, I don't reliably know which days
> are swapped for what days, I just know which are a day off and which are
> working days (from
> http://cnreviews.com/life/living-in-china/china_public_holiday_2009_20081210.html
> - for this year). And since they are nearby the holidays which cause that
> "disruption", I guess people will understand what they are about... if they
> have lived in China for some time, anyway ;)
> 
Thanks for the explanation. I'll take them too :)


> > - the hungry ghost day (?) (Zhongyuanjie) 
> 
> This doesn't seem to be a widely known holiday - I asked three Chinese persons
> whether they know what "中元节" is, and two of them never heard of it, one said
> "yeah, something to do with ghosts". Maybe it's only relevant to Buddhists?
> Anyway, added for 2009 - black "中元节 Ghost Festival" on 3 september 2009
> 
> I think there are a lot more holidays that fall into that category ;)
> 
hm... I can find a wikipedia page about it in french
(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongyuanjie) but not on the german or english
wikipedia version and only celebrated by buddhists and the 'popular religion'
observers.

I'll keep it commented for the moment.

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