Most Chinese People started to celebrate their Chinese New Year holiday. On February 1st the new year on the Lunar calendar will start. The Chinese New Year 2022 is the year of the Tiger. Or to be actually more specific: the Water Tiger. The holiday has some impact on logistics and support.
Some information about the year of the Tiger
2022 is a year of the Water Tiger. It starts from February 1st, 2022, and ends on January 21st, 2023. A Water Tiger year occurs every 60 years.
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The Tiger is known as the king of all beasts in China. The zodiac sign Tiger is a symbol of strength, exorcising evils, and braveness. Many Chinese kids wear hats or shoes with a tiger image for good luck.
Ox and Goat are the luckiest zodiac signs in the year of 2022. For those born in the years of the Rat, Snake, Monkey, Pig and Dog, you will need to make comparatively more effort in order to make achievements. Rabbit, Dragon, Horse, and Rooster people are destined to enjoy a smooth life and good luck in making money this year. Tigers will encounter their ‘birth sign year’ (benmingnian本命年) in 2022. Wearing red will bring good luck in a birth sign year.
Source: China Highlights
You can read more about the Tiger zodiac at China Highlights: https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/tiger.htm
Impact of the Chinese New Year festival
The Chinese New Year festival is an important holiday to Chinese People. It is like the Christmas Holiday for many other countries on the world. Chinese people visit their family and friends who often live far away within China. Most companies are closed during this holiday or at least have reduced activity. This also means Coolkit (eWeLink) and ITEAD (Sonoff) have reduced activity during this period. Also many Chinese online stores are closed and do not ship in this period. Bewlow you will find the impact for eWeLink and Sonoff.
eWeLink
- Out of office from January 28th till February 7th. So back on February 8th.
- Support tickets (in-app:
Profile
>Help & feedback
>Feedback
> document icon at the top right corner) will be answered as usual (but we believe answers might come slower).
Sonoff
- Out off office from January 28th till February 7th. So back on February 8th.
- Orders will be shipped out after February 5th.
- Support tickets can still be send to ITEAD at https://support.itead.cc.