Topic: Days of the Jewish calendar
Does China have Days of the Jewish calendar?
Not observed here
China's Measures on Public Holidays for Festivals and Commemorative Days (State Council Order No. 795, fourth revision of 2024, in force from 1 January 2025) lists in Article 2 seven festivals on which all citizens are off, thirteen days in total, and in Article 3 four days on which only some citizens are off. No religious festival appears in either. The article that matters is the fourth: festivals customary to ethnic minorities shall have their holiday dates fixed by the local people's government of the area where that minority lives in compact community, according to that minority's own custom. That is the single route by which a non-majority calendar can enter the holiday system, and its test is ethnicity and territory rather than religion, so the Jewish calendar has no entrance to try. Religious bodies travel a different road entirely: Article 7 of the Regulations on Religious Affairs (State Council Order No. 686) requires a religious organisation to register its establishment, alteration and dissolution under the rules governing social organisations. Two separate roads — and the one that leads to a day off never asks about faith.
What is this topic?
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Hanukkah are national holidays nowhere — not even in the United States, home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, where the holidays for federal employees are fixed by statute at 5 U.S.C. 6103 and contain exactly one religious festival, Christmas. What differs from country to country is what a state offers instead. New York City closes its schools for Yom Kippur; New Jersey obliges every district to excuse a student on any of fourteen Jewish days; Brazil gives every student a statutory right to sit an exam on another date. Taiwan, Japan, China, India and Indonesia carry none of these days at all, and each for a different reason.
Sources and dates
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