Many modern festivals inherited from the ancient times, that ancient times in fact which dynasty's holiday is the most?

As a working person is happiest than the vacation, in fact, the holiday is not our modern only, in ancient times there have been a variety of holidays, of course, different dynasties in ancient times, the provisions of the holiday is not the same, which holiday the most to be counted in the Song Dynasty, and now look at the different dynasties of the holiday what are the different it.

Official holidays this provision is formally established, should be in the Han Dynasty, in the "Han Law" has records, officials work for five days, there will be a ? Bathing Day? , officials can take leave to go home and take a bath, so do five off one is basically the Han Dynasty when the officials work life, and later the Han Dynasty also formed a matter of leave, sick leave, funeral leave, etc., which funeral leave is very long, can reach three years time long. In addition to these holidays, there are a number of legal holidays, such as the Chongyang Festival, Lunar New Year, etc., will be held to celebrate the grand activities, just like our current traditional festivals, in addition to the ancient times every first day of the first month, the third of March, the fifth day of May, the seventh day of the seventh month, the ninth day of the ninth month, etc., but also to have an important festival.

To the time of the Tang Dynasty, the holidays are more than ever, more than the past to increase the number of festivals, such as Tanabata, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., in the Tang Dynasty, the holiday time can reach 47 days, even the emperor and queen's birthday festival, can be three days of national holiday, but the system of five off one in the Tang Dynasty was changed to ten off one, known as the ? Lunar vacation? , a vacation on the tenth, twentieth and last days of each month.

The people of the Song Dynasty were the happiest of all, they had the most holidays, they would set up all kinds of festivals, and then every time they met a holiday they would take a vacation, and in a year there were 112 days of holidays, which accounted for a third of the year, which was really too much. After the Song Dynasty, there were fewer holidays, and with public holidays, there were only 50 days a year, which was half the size of the Song Dynasty. Ming dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he himself is like to work, is a workaholic, so the development of the holidays is also particularly less, can not work, the people holiday carnival, so that the ancient holidays are also related to the emperor of each dynasty.