How many days off can ancient people in different dynasties take in a year? Isn't it only in modern society?

How many days off can ancient people in different dynasties take in a year?

Speaking of holidays, many friends may think that the holiday system did not appear until modern society.

This understanding is incorrect.

Even in the hierarchical feudal society, there is a saying of having a holiday.

As early as the Han Dynasty, China had a complete vacation system. Every summer solstice and winter solstice, the court will give officials a few days off.

In addition, officials can work five days a week, take a day off in rotation, and have a special title called Hume.

In other words, every five days, the imperial court has a holiday and allows officials to go home to take a bath, so it is called Hume. Well, you can't go home and take a shower every five days, so everyone tastes the same.

By the Tang Dynasty, the vacation system had been very perfect.

Every year, traditional festivals, such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, summer solstice and other national statutory holidays, are given to officials by the court. Among them, the Spring Festival and the winter solstice are two important days, with a full seven-day holiday. Therefore, people in the Tang Dynasty can enjoy two golden weeks to stimulate tourism consumption around the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty also implemented a ten-day vacation system. Taking a day off in the middle and late of each month is called "ten days off", which is similar to our current weekend.

Moreover, officials in the Tang Dynasty also enjoyed leave benefits such as family leave, marriage leave and funeral leave. In this ancient Tang dynasty, the treatment of the relevant departments was numerous, and the annual rest time was at least 100 days.

That is, 365 days a year, rest 100 days, and the total number of working days is 265 days or less. This welfare is very good, so the popularity of Tang poetry is related to many holidays.

But the Tang Dynasty was not the dynasty with the most vacations, but the Song Dynasty.

There is a detailed introduction to the official vacation system in the middle and early period of the Northern Song Dynasty in Wenchang Miscellanies.

In the northern song dynasty, it was also called the ancestral hall in the name of the imperial court, which is equivalent to the current national holiday office, specializing in holidays.

The legal holidays in the Northern Song Dynasty are mainly divided into two categories. First, traditional festivals, such as the Cold Food Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Double Ninth Festival, and seasonal solar terms, such as the solstice in winter and Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring.

The second category is Tianqing Festival and Congenital Festival. This is an official political festival.

Traditional festivals, such as Lantern Festival and Cold Food Festival, rest for seven days each, totaling 35 days. Summer solstice, congenital festival and other festivals have three days off each, totaling 2 1 day.

In early spring, festivals such as the Tanabata Equinox have one day off each, totaling 2 1 day.

It is also possible to find out why there are three holidays in summer solstice and only one holiday in spring. This is because the summer solstice is a festive day in the Northern Song Dynasty, so the summer solstice holiday time is two more days.

In addition to many festivals we just mentioned, officials in the Song and Tang Dynasties have three days off every month, a total of 36 days a year.

Coupled with the various solar terms and holidays we have just counted, the relevant departments of the Song Dynasty also have more than 100 days off a year.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty also stipulated that if parents lived 3,000 miles away, officials could have 30 days' home leave every three years.

In addition, there are festivals such as weddings, funerals and weddings, so there are more festivals in the Song Dynasty than now.

Just now we were talking about the holidays that court officials can enjoy. Do ordinary citizens also have the right to take vacations?

The answer is yes.

In the Song Dynasty, employees of handicraft workshops also had holidays, including various solar terms and festivals, about 60 days a year.

Artisans work about 65,438+00 hours a day. In the hot summer, from the beginning of May to the beginning of August, the daily workload will be halved and only about 5 hours will be worked.

This can also be a little summer vacation in disguise.

On the legal holidays of the Yuan Dynasty, there were only 52 days to cut. Festivals like the Spring Festival Cold Food Festival only have three days off.

There is only one day off every month, and officials on the emperor's birthday have only two days off.

Later, in the Ming Dynasty, this festival was even less. Only the Lantern Festival, winter solstice and New Year's Day will be closed 18 days.

Even the ten-day holiday every month was cancelled, and there were so few holidays in the Ming Dynasty.

It may be related to Zhu Yuanzhang's poverty and cold since childhood. He thought that ease would corrupt people, so Zhu Yuanzhang canceled most of his holidays.

The vacation system in the Qing Dynasty was similar to that in the Ming Dynasty, with few holidays.

It was not until 1980s (19) that the Qing government introduced "western learning" and began to use the Sunday rest system in some western-style schools.

Therefore, we have begun to continue to this day, and now we have begun to advocate the "996" working atmosphere, and there is even less rest.