Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. Was there a holiday in the ancient Spring Festival?

The ancient vacation system should have started from the Han Dynasty. Officials can take a day off every five days, that is, they can take four breaks on the fifth day and change clothes at home, so that the family can get together.

In the Han Dynasty, four days off seemed ok, but in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was not so optimistic, and it became ten days off, that is, nine days off. However, there are also more humanized holidays in this period, such as the family leave in the Tang Dynasty, which is 30 days or 15 days according to the distance from home. There are also special holidays such as marriage leave and funeral leave. In Song Dynasty, summer solstice lasted for three days, winter solstice and Spring Festival lasted for seven days. It seems that the status of summer solstice and winter solstice in ancient times is much higher than it is now.

In the Yuan Dynasty, it was said that the annual leave was reduced to 16 days, arguing that work itself was rest. In the Ming Dynasty, he could only rest for three days a year, one was the Spring Festival, the other was the winter solstice, and the other was Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday. Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a "workaholic". But the three-day vacation system will gradually find many problems. At this time, the "winter vacation" appeared, including the Spring Festival, which lasted for 30 days. Later, the winter vacation system was followed in the early Qing Dynasty.

This is not an ordinary person! Because for farmers in ancient China, they could control their own time. As now, the Spring Festival is not only the beginning of a year, but also the most leisure time for farm work, so it is of little significance to have a holiday.