Introduction to traditional festivals in New Zealand

Like China, New Zealand also has its own traditional festivals. World Customs Network. If you want to live in New Zealand more happily and get along with New Zealand better, you must have some understanding of these traditional festivals.

1. New Year's Day: New Zealand's New Year's Day is the same as other countries. The time is January 1.

2. Day after New Years Day This festival is the day after New Years Day and is January 2.

3. Waitangi Day: Waitangi Day is a very important festival in New Zealand. It falls on February 6 every year. The whole country will celebrate on this day the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document.

4. Good Friday is held on April 2 every year and is a festival commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus.

5. Easter Day is one of the most important festivals in the West. It falls on the first Sunday after the full moon of the vernal equinox every year. Christians believe that Resurrection symbolizes rebirth and hope, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion in 30-33 AD. In New Zealand, people celebrate by eating resurrection eggs and making toys for resurrection rabbits.

6. Anzac Day The Anzac Day is held on April 25 every year. This festival commemorates the Australia and New Zealand Corps (ANZAC) who died in the Battle of Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, in memory of their brave spirit of sacrificing their lives for their country.

7. The Queen's Birthday is the first Monday in June. Almost all people in New Zealand celebrate the Queen on this day.

8. Labor Day. Labor Day in New Zealand is the fourth Monday of the year. Its history can be traced back to the struggle of people for an eight-hour working day during the newly established Colony of Wellington in 1840.

9. Christmas Day The Christmas time is December 25 every year. It is the day when Christians celebrate the birth of yesu. People in New Zealand decorate Christmas trees and eat Christmas meals on this day.

10. Boxing Day is December 16 every year, the day after Christmas or the first Sunday after Christmas. It is a festival celebrated in some parts of the British Commonwealth, including of course New Zealand, where people will go shopping every day.