Does China have Halloween?
Not observed here
China gives Halloween no legal position at all. The Measures on Public Holidays for National Annual Festivals and Memorial Days were amended for the fourth time by State Council Order No. 795, promulgated on 10 November 2024 and in force from 1 January 2025. Article 2 lists seven holidays for all citizens — New Year's Day one day, Spring Festival four, Qingming one, Labour Day two, Dragon Boat one, Mid-Autumn one, National Day three. Article 3 lists four partial ones: half a day for women on 8 March, half a day for young people on 4 May, a full day for children under fourteen on 1 June, half a day for serving soldiers on 1 August. Article 5 names the commemorative days that carry no leave at all, and Article 4 hands the festivals of ethnic minorities to the local governments of the areas where they live. No foreign festival appears anywhere in the text. Halloween is therefore not excluded from the Chinese system so much as never written into it; where it exists is in the seasonal calendars of shopping malls, theme parks and bars. We found no official Chinese government statement about Halloween itself.
What is this topic?
No country on this board has made Halloween on 31 October a public holiday. What differs is how far each government goes anyway. The United States leaves it out of the federal holiday statute, yet the FDA polices costume contact lenses as medical devices and one Ohio city moves trick-or-treating to 29 October in 2026. Japan has no national rule at all and two Tokyo wards with ordinances of their own — one of whose mayors published a request that people stay away. Brazil never gave the day off, and then legislated a rival festival onto the very same date.
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