Traditional festivals are celebrated on holiday. Why not have a holiday on Lantern Festival?

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, traditional festivals in China include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Flower Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Cold Clothes Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Laba Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Kitchen Festival and New Year's Eve.

The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. Most of these festivals in ancient China were related to primitive beliefs, astronomical phenology, calendars, mathematics and the solar terms divided later. Among them, the more important traditional festivals are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve.

Spring Festival is a festival that people in China pay more attention to. On this day, people can not only enjoy holidays, but also get together with their families and visit relatives and friends. Lantern Festival is a time for family reunion and eating glutinous rice balls together. In some places, you can also visit temple fairs and enjoy lanterns. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is mainly a festival of sacrifice.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and there are dragon boat races. Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for families to get together and enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. People usually give mooncakes to each other. On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, you can enjoy chrysanthemums, worship your ancestors and carry out activities to respect the elderly.

This is also an important traditional festival. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival all have one to three days' holidays. Why not have a holiday on the Lantern Festival and the Double Ninth Festival? Looking through historical documents silently with questions, it turns out that the Lantern Festival is an ancient festival! The longest holiday is twelve days!

Han Dynasty: Take a day off. The whole country celebrated * * *, and the streets were decorated with lanterns and colored decorations, offering sacrifices to Taiyi (the god who rules the universe), so the custom of solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao was passed down from generation to generation.

Tang dynasty: three days off. Three days before and after the Lantern Festival, the curfew was lifted, and people from princes and nobles to peddlers and pawns could enjoy the lanterns. Officials built lanterns, trees and towers to light up the capital, and singers were arranged to wear crowns and robes and sing and dance. It is said that every singer's costume needs 300 yuan, which is worth about 90,000 yuan today!

Song dynasty: five days off. The emperor of the Song Dynasty flaunted the idea of having fun with the people, and the holiday was increased to five days. At this time, lanterns, songs and dances are not the most important. At this time, the Lantern Festival has some Valentine's Day meanings. Famous sentences such as "Looking back suddenly, people are in the twilight" and "On the willow tip, people meet after dusk" all come from this.

Ming Dynasty: Ten days off. Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu both had imperial edicts for holidays. Throughout the country, people are allowed to enjoy the lanterns and drink and have fun at night, and even the inspector is not allowed to disturb everyone's enjoyment at night.

Qing dynasty: five days off. The Lantern Festival holiday in Qing Dynasty was reduced to five days, but it was still lively. Although the imperial court no longer holds lantern festivals, the folk lantern festivals are spectacular. Bright lights and various patterns are very attractive.

Looking at the Lantern Festival holiday of the ancients, think about yourself at work now. Is it because the ancient holidays were too long, and now they are cancelled? In fact, since 1949, the crazy mode has been started for the great rejuvenation of the nation. Not only the Lantern Festival, but also the Spring Festival. Don't stop fighting at the age of 30, keep working hard on the first day!

Until 1980, the Spring Festival holiday resumed, and it only lasted for three days. 1999, Spring Festival changed to 7 days, and there was no news for Lantern Festival. In 2007, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival were successfully promoted. Lantern Festival holiday has been a problem since 2009. ...

It is said that the state stipulates that there are 1 1 legal holidays a year. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are all occupied, but the Lantern Festival is not on the list ... "I was too full for the New Year, and the Lantern Festival could not be held", so ... I'd better go to work for the Lantern Festival ~