Is there a Spring Festival in the Philippines?

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a large number of Chinese. People in China have always had the custom of Spring Festival, and the form is basically the same as that in China.

Moreover, after years of appeals from local Chinese communities, at the beginning of February, on 20 1 165438, the Philippine Presidential Palace issued an announcement announcing the Spring Festival as a non-working public holiday for the first time.

In the Philippines, public holidays are divided into ordinary holidays and special holidays, and special holidays are divided into working holidays and non-working holidays. On June 65438+1October 65438+April 2004, then President Arroyo declared China Lunar New Year as a "national special working holiday". However, Arroyo's announcement at that time was considered symbolic, because it was a "working holiday", so Filipino residents, including Chinese, still had to go to work as usual on the Spring Festival.

This time, the government designated the 20 12 Spring Festival as a special non-working holiday, which will enable China people and ordinary Filipinos to relax and enjoy this traditional festival in China.