🇹🇼How does Taiwan mark National Days?

國慶日／雙十國慶

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October 10, 2026

Taiwan's National Day is 10 October, because an uprising broke out in Wuchang on that day in 1911, leading to the end of imperial rule and the founding of the Republic of China. It is one of the commemorative days given a one-day holiday under the Act on Commemorative Days and Holidays. There is a ceremony and flag raising in front of the Presidential Office and fireworks in the evening. It is also one of the few national days here that commemorates an uprising rather than a declaration or a founding — what is marked is the overthrow, not the establishment. The tenth of October commemorates the Wuchang uprising of 1911, and its formal name is the National Day of the Republic of China. The fixed acts of the day are the flag raising and the celebration assembly in front of the Presidential Office, completed in the morning, with the route and the street closures announced in advance each year. It is a day off, so watching the ceremony by day and the fireworks by night both fit inside it — one of the few days in Taiwan that puts ritual and leisure in the same slot.