1 October, the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. It opens the Golden Week holiday, the largest movement of people in the world outside the Lunar New Year.
1 October, the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. It opens Golden Week, a seven-day holiday.
The Phala almanac gives the exact day for your own city; the lunar and solar rules above are what it computes from.
Mao declared the republic from the Tiananmen rostrum on 1 October 1949, and the date has been the national day since.
The military parade is not annual: it is held on the round anniversaries, and the years between are marked with flowers, concerts and the flag ceremony rather than with hardware.
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The Phala almanac shows this day where it falls for your own city — sunrise, tithi and all five limbs, anywhere on earth. See how the almanac works →
