The September is arrived, which mean Chinese traditional holidays Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese National Day holidays are coming soon. The Mid-Autumn festival and National Day are very close this year, so the official holiday were arranged together, which is from September 29th to October 6th, 8 days in total.
Since this is the first long holidays for the Chinese people after the epidemic, it might will brought a tourism boom. Before the epidemic, National Day Holidays is always a “golden week” for Chinese people to relax and travel. Every year the ticket on these days are very popular and in a great demand, so if passenger want to take the train during September 29th to October 6th this year will need these tips.
Tips for Booking a Ticket
Book The Ticket in Advance
The ticket usually release by China Rail 15 days before departure date, so if you want to book the ticket during National Holiday, it is better to book the ticket before or from September 15th as soon as possible.
Make A Buck-Up Plan
Because of the holidays, there might have thousands of people book the ticket at the same time. So sometimes you may fail to get your desired ticket. But if you have a buck-up plan then you won’t have to worry to much. When you book your ticket on the APP, there have a option “Acceptable Trains/ Seat”, you can lick into it and make your buck-up plan. When your desired ticket is not available, our staff will change the train or class directly based on the option you have chosen.
Contact Us First When There are Few Tickets Available
Sometime you might see some train still have 1 or 2 tickets available, and you just book and paid the ticket immediately, but later you received our ticket sold out and no tickets available email. This is because sometimes the network has a lag, and ticket already sold out after you complete the payment.
If there only few tickets available, make the booking first and call our service or contact our service on Wechat or WhatsApp to check if there really have ticket available. We will issue the ticket for our customers at the first place, but please also understand us if we fails to issue the ticket. We will handle the refund as soon as possible.
Introduction Of Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese National Day
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the15th August in the Chinese lunar calendar . This is a traditional festival, originated in ancient times, popular in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the Tang Dynasty, which has a history of thousands of year.
The meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival is to look forward to harvest in autumn. And in the Mid-Autumn Festival the moon will be come full mean, people regard the full moon as a symbol of reunion to pray for family happiness.The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival , are known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals. Influenced by Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially among the local Chinese.
During the festival family will gather around enjoying delicacy, eating moon cake, enjoying the full moon, making lanterns and so on. Because there are 56 nationalities in China, so the customs of each nationality are different but some customs are still the same.
National Day
Chinese National Day is on October 1st every year, which is to celebrate the official founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1st , 1949. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and after years of hard work and struggle, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed, marking China's transformation from a feudal and semi-colonial society into an independent, autonomous and unified socialist country. In order to celebrate this important event, the National Day was set up on October 1st. National Day has important political significance and national awakening significance. It represents the great victory of the Chinese people in defeating foreign aggression and establishing an independent country.
Every 5 years, the National Day Ceremony will be held in Tian’anmen Square in Beijing. So as the capital of China, Beijing is the city with the heaviest National Day holiday atmosphere. This year is the 74th anniversary of the founding of China, so there will be no grand military parade. But there will still have the national flag-rising ceremony. Every Monday, there will have national flag-rising ceremony. But in the National Day there will have some different. The PLA military orchestra will play the national anthem during the National Day and also included an addition of a guard of honor to welcome the flag. If passenger have interest, can make a reservation on the official website of the People’s Government of Beijing Municipality-Tian’anmen Management Committee.
Further reading:
Top Things You Should Know before Taking the Train in China Currently
