Why we can't have more holidays?

To celebrate Chinese New Year, the most important festival in China, we'll have 7-days holiday starting from Jan. 31 to Feb. 06. But it seem we can't have such a long vacation, we have to work on Jan. 26 (Sunday) and Feb. 8 (Saturday) to make up for it. Given Feb. 1 and Feb. 2 are weekend, actually we only have 4-days leave for this most important festival in China. I have to ask Why we can't have more holidays? Working on weekends is ilegal in western countries to some extent, but we take it for granted. Why?

Driven mad_Please help correct it, thanks. Do you love your job? I'm not sure how many people will give me the answer of "yes, I do.". For me, sometimes I like it while sometimes I want to escape from it. But whatever the situation is, I do want to finish every task with my full efforts. Fine, forget what I said above. At least, your job pays you. Without it, you can't go on your life. So, you take the money, you have to realize your responsibility to finish every task. No matter how boring or difficult it is, you should try your best to make it. How simple it is. I just don't understand why those people take the money but don't even give their half percent of their energies to the job they have to finish? The people I met this morning just drove me crazy.

Culture Differencese_Please help correct it, thanks. Culture difference is very interesting. Last week, when I was doing translation, I was confused about the word "平安果“. And I was curious about how to say it in English, peaceful fruit, Christmas apple or Christmas eve apple? The question was asked on italki and was given the answers soon after posted. What a big surprise! I was told that "平安果” actually is not the tradition of Christmas in western countries. Another interesting example is also from translation. Once, I was asked to translate the following sentence:“ 我记得在与Mike的时候，他把合作比作一场婚姻。对此，我非常的认同。” into English. I used "I really agree with Mike when he analogized our partnership as a marriage.", but was told that usually western people don't use analogy in that way. And at last, I used referred to instead of analogy. Learning