Why is the Lantern Festival not a holiday? When was the Lantern Festival holiday cancelled?

Guide: On such a lively day as Lantern Festival, we should have a holiday on the day of reunion. Why not have a holiday on Lantern Festival? I have known about the Lantern Festival since I was a child, but it didn't have a holiday and didn't have such a big impact on students. But for office workers, if they don't have a holiday, they will lose the opportunity to eat glutinous rice balls and Yuanxiao with their families. Then, when was the Lantern Festival holiday cancelled and when was it not arranged? Come and get to know me.

Why not have a holiday on Lantern Festival?

1 91265438+1October1,the provisional government of the Republic of China was established. In order to keep up with international practice, keep up with the world's great pace, and facilitate the formulation of the budget, Sun Yat-sen changed it to the Gregorian calendar the day after the founding of the Republic of China: 469 1 1 month 13, which was the first year of the Republic of China. 65438+1 October1is the solar new year, that is, the first day of the lunar new year.

However, the Lunar New Year in China is also called "New Year's Day" or "New Year" to distinguish the Gregorian New Year from the Gregorian New Year.

Therefore, there are four so-called traditional festivals in China: Spring Festival, Summer Festival (Dragon Boat Festival), Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival) and Winter Festival (Winter solstice), among which there is no Lantern Festival and there is no legal holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

But the old calendar has been traditional for thousands of years, and the Lantern Festival still has to be celebrated. It is impossible to change it at once, so people continue to use the old calendar and celebrate the traditional Lantern Festival according to the old calendar.

The government is also formulating a holiday system according to the solar calendar, such as 10, 10 as the National Day, 10 as the anniversary of the establishment of the provisional government of the Republic of China, and later International Labor Day, Children's Day and Teachers' Day. The government and the people go their own way, forming a dual calendar system.

It was not until 1928, after the success of the Northern Expedition, that the national government ordered the Gregorian calendar to be the national calendar, abolished the old calendar, and forced the people of the whole country to celebrate the Gregorian calendar with traditional lunar holidays. The contract signed with the old calendar had no legal effect.

In order to reduce the resistance to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, the traditional customs have not been abolished, but only the festivals have been moved to the same Gregorian calendar date, such as 65438+1 October1Spring Festival for three to five days, and 65438+1October1May Lantern Festival for one day.

But the Gregorian calendar 1. 15 may not have a big round moon. Even if we celebrate on this day according to the previous custom, we eat glutinous rice balls, Yuanxiao and so on. It doesn't taste like before. People are unhappy, but they still do things according to the old calendar in private, resulting in few people going to work during the Spring Festival. As a last resort, at the beginning of 1934, the national government no longer abolished the old calendar, and the solar calendar and the lunar calendar coexisted.

After the founding of New China, it inherited the dual structure of the holiday system in the Republic of China. First, 10 is designated as the National Day, and then New Year's Day, Arbor Day, Women's Day, International Labor Day and Spring Festival are adjusted according to the official solar calendar anniversary of the Republic of China.

1 949,65438+February, the State Council promulgated National Holidays and Remembrances (hereinafter referred to as "Holidays"), which divided New Year's Day (1 day), Spring Festival (3 days), May Day (1day) and National Day (2 days) into four festivals.

The Spring Festival is the only legal festival left over from the old society, and some of its festival customs, such as sacrificial activities, setting off firecrackers (harmful), eating and drinking (wasteful), have long been criticized. In the 1960s, in order to conform to the revolutionary situation, even the Spring Festival was not celebrated according to the requirements of the masses, and other festivals, including the Lantern Festival, which never took a holiday, were out of the question.

1999, the Measures for Holidays was revised for the first time. At that time, affected by the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, experts suggested that the weekend holiday could be used to form the Golden Week, so that everyone could concentrate on spending money and boost GDP. So this time it just increased the holiday time. May Day, National Day and Spring Festival are all three days. In fact, through the weekend holidays, they all have seven days each, forming three golden weeks.

Later, because the Golden Week brought various problems such as traffic pressure and tourism chaos, and some experts suggested that the current holiday system lacked attention to traditional cultural customs, the national legal holiday adjustment research group proposed an adjustment plan: canceling the May 1 Golden Week and increasing the Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival as legal holidays, one day each.

In this process, the Lantern Festival has a chance to be selected. In the network survey conducted by the national legal holiday adjustment research group at that time, 105688 valid answers were received. In the choice of traditional festivals, 95.73% of the respondents advocated that the Mid-Autumn Festival should have a holiday, followed by Tomb-Sweeping Day 58.3 1%, Lantern Festival 45.62% and Dragon Boat Festival 43.57%.

Although the Lantern Festival is louder than the Dragon Boat Festival, it is still brushed by the Dragon Boat Festival. Why is this? There are three reasons. First, the research group thinks that this revision has increased the holiday time of 1 day, and it is enough to put 1 1 day a year. Second, the Lantern Festival is too close to the Spring Festival, so it is not appropriate to have a holiday before the Spring Festival. Third, although the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day are also close, the Mid-Autumn Festival has a greater impact.

Since then, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival have become the four most famous traditional festivals in China. However, due to this major adjustment, Yuanxiao failed to take the upper position, and its position was even weaker since then. As for the third revision of 20 13, it only changed the Spring Festival holiday from New Year's Eve to the second day to the first day to the third day, and there was still no Lantern Festival holiday. So now people don't have a holiday on Lantern Festival.

When was the Lantern Festival holiday cancelled?

Lantern Festival has never had a holiday since the Republic of China.

From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Lantern Festival had holidays. The Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty lasted for five days, from the eighth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month in the Ming Dynasty, and changed to three days in the Qing Dynasty.

After the founding of the Republic of China, a very important reform was to abandon the traditional calendar and switch to the Gregorian calendar, which is the western Gregorian calendar. After changing to the Gregorian calendar, the legal holidays have also changed. What the Japanese did during the Meiji Restoration was to move the festival from the lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar. For example, the Japanese New Year is now 65438+ 10/and the Lantern Festival is 65438+1 0/5.

Because the lunar calendar in China is a combination of yin and yang, and the Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar, which is based on the movement of the sun and does not reflect the movement of the moon. Gregorian calendar 15 can't guarantee that the moon in the sky must be full moon, but it must be round on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

In order to solve this problem, Beiyang government adopted the system of parallel solar calendar and lunar calendar, and decided to designate four important traditional festivals as legal holidays, namely New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Winter Solstice. The New Year on the first day of the first month is the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May is a summer festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th is an autumn festival, and the solstice in winter is a winter festival. As the internal decree of Beiyang government said, "Yin is the festival.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beiyang Government issued this decree nationwide on June 5438+0965438+1October 23, 2004. Since then, China has established a dual festival system of solar calendar and lunar calendar, which is very characteristic in all countries in the world, indicating that China people have not given up their own invented calendars.

When the Beiyang government made this decision in the Republic of China, it did not regard the Lantern Festival as a legal holiday, so in the later historical period, it also formed the habit of not having a holiday for the Lantern Festival.