Oct. 8, 2025
My National Day Holiday
The national holiday this year lasts from October first to October eighth, which coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is on October sixth this year.
New China was established on October first, 1949, so it has become the Chinese people's national holiday. Chinese people celebrate it every year.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival based on the Chinese lunar calendar, which is always on the fifteenth of the lunar August, usually in late solar September or at the beginning of solar October. But this year is special because this year's lunar calendar has an intercalary sixth month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was postponed to solar October.
These two holidays are both our mandatory holidays. If they don't coincide, we have days off for both of them. If they coincide, we only have an eight-day off.
The holidays (National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival) this year were not very nice because it rained at least for six days and the other two days were cloudy.
During the holidays, young people like to travel with their children, but old people are not very into traveling during the holidays–they can't stand travel fatigue.
I did "travel" this holiday. I rode my tricycle with my wife and wandered around my city for several days. My "trip" had no cost, no traffic jam, no tiredness and no anxiety of trying to reach a specific destination on time because I could go home to have meals and take naps at any time we wanted.
The national holiday this year lasts from October fir1st to October eigh8th, which coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is on October six6th this year.
Common:
"October 1st"
"the 1st of October"
"the first of October"
Uncommon:
"October the first" (mostly only in spoken British English)
"October first" is rarely written out with "first" as "first". Normally the numeral is used, like "1st".
New ChinaThe PRC was established on October fir1st, 1949, so it has become the Chinese people's national holiday.
In English the name is "The People's Republic of China" or "The PRC" for short
Mixing the spelled out ordinal ("first") with the numeric date is unusual in English.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival based on the Chinese lunar calendar, which is always on the fifteenth of the lunar Augusteighth lunar month, usually in late solar September or at the beginning of solar October.
"August" isn't a generic word for "8th month" but specifically means the 8th month of the Gregorian calendar (or Julian calendar if you go back in history).
The months of the lunar calendar aren't really talked about in English enough to have their own words, so when they are mentioned, it's usually as "the eighth month of the lunar calendar"
Wikipedia tells me some people also use either literal translations of the Chinese month names ("Tiger Month" etc.) or the pinyin names ("Wǔyuè" etc.). Personally, I've only ever seen them numbered.
But this year is special because this year's lunar calendar has an intercalary sixth month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was postponed to solar October.
These two holidays are both our mandatory holidays.
If you say they are "both" your mandatory holidays, it implies they're your _only_ mandatory holidays. I don't know enough about Chinese workplace holidays to tell if that's correct or not.
If they coincide, we only have an eight-day period off.
During the holidays, young people like to travel with their children, but old people are not very into traveling during the holidays–they can't stand travel fatigue.
Oct. 13, 2025
Chinese people have seven mandatory holidays, which include the Mid - Autumn Festival and the National Day holiday. When I say “they are both Chinese mandatory holidays”, I mean “它们都是中国的法定节日”. I don’t mean that we only have these two mandatory holidays. Does “They are both our mandatory holidays” mean that we only have these two mandatory holidays? Why? How can it be? I am very confused. Thank you for your corrections and detailed explanations.
Oct. 13, 2025
"both" has a sense of completeness. If you say "both our national holidays", it means 2 national holidays out of 2.
If you just want to say they are part of a larger set, you could say "They are both among our mandatory holidays"
Oct. 14, 2025
Okay, thank you very much. “Both among”, I’ll remember it.
My National Day Holiday
The national holiday this year lasts from October first to October eighth, which coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is on October sixth this year.
“which is” is correct but not needed - this flows better.
Chinese people celebrate it every year.
But this year is special because this year's lunar calendar has an intercalary sixth month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was postponed to solar October.
These two holidays are both our mandatory holidays.
If they don't coincide, we have days off for both of them.
If they coincide, we only have an eight-day off.
The holidays (National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival) this year were not very nice because it rained for at least for six days and the other two days were cloudy.
During the holidays, young people like to travel with their children, but old people are not very into traveling during the holidays–they can't stand travel fatigue.
I did "travel" this holiday.
I rode my tricycle with my wife and wandered around my city for several days.
My "trip" had no cost, no traffic jam, no tiredness and no anxiety of trying to reach a specific destination on time because I could go home to have meals and take naps at any time we wanted.
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Unlucky that your holidays don’t combine. In Australia if a holiday like Christmas Day lands on a weekend we get the next Monday off etc. No holiday is ever missed, just postponed to the next free day 👍
Oct. 8, 2025
That is fair enough. In China, if a holiday falls on a weekend, the government won't make up days for the weekend for us, which is really funny.
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The holidays (National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival) this year were not very nice because it rained at least for six days and the other two days were cloudy. The holidays (National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival) this year were not very nice because it rained for at least |
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The national holiday this year lasts from October first to October eighth, which coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is on October sixth this year. The national holiday this year lasts from October first to October eighth, which coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival “which is” is correct but not needed - this flows better. The national holiday this year lasts from October Common: "October 1st" "the 1st of October" "the first of October" Uncommon: "October the first" (mostly only in spoken British English) "October first" is rarely written out with "first" as "first". Normally the numeral is used, like "1st". |
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New China was established on October first, 1949, so it has become the Chinese people's national holiday.
In English the name is "The People's Republic of China" or "The PRC" for short Mixing the spelled out ordinal ("first") with the numeric date is unusual in English. |
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival based on the Chinese lunar calendar, which is always on the fifteenth of the lunar August, usually in late solar September or at the beginning of solar October. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival based on the Chinese lunar calendar, which is always on the fifteenth of the "August" isn't a generic word for "8th month" but specifically means the 8th month of the Gregorian calendar (or Julian calendar if you go back in history). The months of the lunar calendar aren't really talked about in English enough to have their own words, so when they are mentioned, it's usually as "the eighth month of the lunar calendar" Wikipedia tells me some people also use either literal translations of the Chinese month names ("Tiger Month" etc.) or the pinyin names ("Wǔyuè" etc.). Personally, I've only ever seen them numbered. |
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These two holidays are both our mandatory holidays. This sentence has been marked as perfect! These two holidays are both our mandatory holidays. If you say they are "both" your mandatory holidays, it implies they're your _only_ mandatory holidays. I don't know enough about Chinese workplace holidays to tell if that's correct or not. |
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If they don't coincide, we have days off for both of them. This sentence has been marked as perfect! |
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If they coincide, we only have an eight-day off. This sentence has been marked as perfect! If they coincide, we only have an eight-day period off. |
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