Holidays and Observances:
6: New Year Festival of Qiang ethnic minority, celebrated on the 1st of the 10th lunar month. The Qiang, who primarily live in southwest China's Sichuan Province, offer sacrifices to their ancestors and deities, sending New Year greetings, and enjoy various forms of entertainment.
8: China's Journalists Day.
9: National Day for Fire Safety Education.
11: International Week of Science and Peace, which takes place each year during the week in which November 11 falls.
14: World Diabetes Day, is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes world. It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the alarming rise in diabetes around the world. In 2007, the United Nations marked the Day for the first time with the passage of the United Nations World Diabetes Day Resolution in December 2006, which made the existing World Diabetes Day an official United Nations World Health Day.
15: Double Happiness Day, observed by Zhuang people in western Guangxi on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, and considered an auspicious day for weddings.
20: Universal Children's Day. The United Nation General Assembly recommended in 1954 that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children and of activity promoting the welfare of the world's children. The date of November 20 marks the day in which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. On December 17, 1999 the UN General Assembly designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, aiming to raise public awareness of the problem. Women's activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. The date came from the brutal 1961 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo.
25: Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
Harvest Festival observed by the Paiwan tribe of the Gaoshan ethnic group in Taiwan on a lucky day after the autumn harvest in the 10th lunar month. Each community follows its leader in worshipping Heaven, Earth, deities and ancestors followed by feasting and entertainment. Competitions such as races, tug-of-war, wrestling and archery are also held. |
