How did the summer vacation come? Do students in ancient private schools have winter, summer and rest days?

As the name implies, winter and summer vacations mean that summer is too hot, so you can have a holiday and rest. Come back when it's cool in autumn, and come back when it's too cold in winter. You can have a holiday and rest, and come back when it's warm in spring.

As for the origin of the specific summer vacation, a short story has been circulating among the people. According to this story, Wang Chan, an ancient eccentric in China, gave a lecture in the Ghost Valley Cave in Yunmeng Mountain. Pang Juan, Su Qin, Sun Bin and Zhang Yi were all his disciples at that time.

Guiguzi

Every summer in Guigu Cave, the spring water in the cave will rise, flooding the whole cave and making it impossible to teach. Guiguzi wants to give students a holiday, and the "summer vacation" has continued to this day.

Of course, legends are just legends. There were winter and summer vacations in Confucius' period, but the form was similar. At that time, it was also called "study tour". China's modern winter and summer vacation system appeared with the reform of the academic system in the late Qing Dynasty, which was the product of the spread of western learning to the east.

Imperial University

At that time, the Qing government imitated the west to run western-style schools, and may simply copy the winter and summer vacation system, that is, when the weekend holiday began.

Yuan Shikai

The Constitution of Shandong University Hall formulated by Yuan Shikai is the earliest written stipulation in winter and summer vacations: "Every spring, school starts around the twentieth day of the first month, and summer holidays are given after school; Beginning of autumn starts school on the sixth day after the break and leaves school before1February 15. Give me annual leave. " It stipulated the system of winter and summer vacations, which was used by later generations.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Regulations on Semesters and Vacation Dates promulgated by the government of the Republic of China was abolished, and a series of provisions and regulations on semesters, winter and summer vacations were successively issued, which is the vacation system we are used to now.