Many people believe the Chinese New Year Festival is the only holiday for China. That is not true!! There are many holidays that the Chinese celebrate! Here are a few:

Spring Festival or Chinese New Year (1st day of the 1st lunar month)
The biggest and most celebrated festival in China and part of East and South East Asia. It is as important to the Chinese as Christmas is to Westerners. For more details, please refer to my Chinese New Year page.
Lantern Festival or Yuan Xiao Festival (15th day of the 1st lunar month)
This day features lantern displays, lion and dragon dances, and eating Yuan Xiao (ball-shaped sweet rice dumplings with delicious stuffing.). The Lantern Festival also marks the end of the Chinese New Year season.
Qing Ming (Pure & Bright in Chinese) (5th of the 24 Solar Terms)
Originally it was a celebration of spring. People used to customarily go out on an excursion to "tread grass". Later it became day dedicated to the dear departed. Tidying up ancestors' tombs is its major big event.
Duan Wu (Dragon Boat) Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)
Said to be in memory of a great patriot poet of the then State of Chu during the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.), Qu Yuan (Ch'u Yuan), who drowned himself to protest his emperor who gave in to the bully State of Chin. For fear that fish may consume his body, people of Chu threw launched their boats and started throwing rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river where he was drowned to feed the fish. Now the big event of dragon boat contest may be a legacy of such activity. People today still eat the bamboo-leave rice dumplings on the occasion today.
The Seventh Eve (7th day of the 7th lunar month)
It is a traditional holiday almost lost to the younger generations today. It originates from a beautiful legend about a cowboy and a fairy that were cruelly separated and reunited once each year on this happy sad occasion. A more detailed story is forthcoming.

These are just some of the hundreds of holidays in china which are very important to them.