How did ancient officials have their holidays?

According to "China Ancient Dictionary" published by the Commercial Press, a rest is a bath, which refers to an official's holiday.

Repairing wood in literature

"Don't rest when the light is on. Jie will make some decisions on behalf of light." -The Biography of Han Huo Guang

"A good scripture, everyone who takes Hugh Murray needs to be a doctor."-The Biography of Song Jun in the Later Han Dynasty.

"When energy is behind, you will never give up your desire." —— Zhang Han's Tang Biography.

"Che Wuzi is a waiter and travels with Dongting people every rest. -Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu

In the above documents, some people use Hume to travel with friends, while others continue to work on rare rest days. So what kind of system is this Hume with multiple "usages"?

Officials' leave is called "Hugh" because officials have to stay in the court since the Han Dynasty. According to the "Han Law", "Officials must rest for five days, and they can also rest and bathe", it can be known that since the Western Han Dynasty, civil servants have a shift every four days and have a holiday on the fifth day, taking a bath, changing clothes, having a haircut and shaving.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, this festival was "officials bathing and returning to relatives' homes every five days." Officials can go home and reunite with their families.

This practice continued until

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was changed to "ten holidays" until Yonghui years in the Tang Dynasty. Officials took a day off every 10, which was divided into three days: morning, noon and evening. At that time, it was called the upper ring, the middle ring and the lower ring. "Ring" also means washing hair and body. There is also a famous sentence in Preface to Wang Teng Pavilion, "Ten years' holiday makes friends like a cloud".

Let's do some calculations. According to the five-day rest method, you can take at least 73 days off a year, and when you take ten days off, you can only take more than 30 days off a year, which is half of the holiday. Moreover, it was not so easy to ask for leave in the Tang Dynasty. Need to ask for leave in advance, cancel after asking for leave. If there is any mistake, one month's salary will be deducted. Compared with this, the officials in the Tang Dynasty were also very hard. It seems that behind the prosperity, countless officials sacrificed their bath time for it.