Don't stop fighting at the age of 30 and continue to work on the first day? It was a slogan shouted by the people in the early days of the founding of New China. After dinner, there is no holiday on New Year's Day, let alone the Lantern Festival. The reason why the Lantern Festival is not designated as a statutory holiday actually reflects the flexibility of the state in formulating policies. It is because the distance between Lantern Festival and Spring Festival is too close that the 7-day holiday of Spring Festival is already very long. If the Lantern Festival meets with a holiday, then such frequent holidays will affect the work of most office workers.
(1) is obviously a traditional festival, but it is not a legal holiday. We have briefly emphasized the above points: because the Lantern Festival is too close to the Spring Festival, the state will not set a legal holiday for the Lantern Festival. Spring Festival travel rush of 202 1 is actually in February 12, and Spring Festival travel rush of 7 days is arranged in February11~17; Lantern Festival is on February 26th, only eight days from the last day of the Spring Festival holiday. In other words, office workers will face another holiday after working for 8 days.
Moreover, the interval between the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival is fixed and determined by the lunar calendar. The Spring Festival is the last day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the first month. No matter how these two festivals are calculated, they are all fixed, and the time difference is 15 days. In fact, in my opinion, if the general public has the demand to make the Lantern Festival a legal holiday, it can only shorten the holiday time of the Spring Festival, but if so, someone will definitely stand up and oppose it.
For those who have retired, is there a holiday for the Lantern Festival? In fact, the impact is not great, but for the two largest groups in society, that is, students and office workers, the impact is tantamount to great. For students, self-disciplined students are fine, especially those who are not self-disciplined. After the Spring Festival, they finally returned to school and entered a state of study. If you study for less than a week, you will face the Lantern Festival holiday, and your study status is likely to collapse instantly.
(2) People familiar with history: Why were there festivals in ancient times? Don't you have a holiday today? Simply tell everyone a wise saying:? On the basis of keeping pace with the times, make necessary concrete analysis for specific problems? .
According to the imperial decrees, the ancient Lantern Festival did have legal holidays, and it can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, from the Western Han Dynasty to the last feudal dynasty? In the Qing dynasty 1900 years ago, various dynasties set up holidays on different days during the Lantern Festival. We don't have to think much about modern and contemporary Lantern Festival holidays.
Han dynasty: a day off; Sui and Tang dynasties: three days off; Song dynasty: five days off; Yuan Ming: About ten days; Last Qing Dynasty: Three days off. There is a long-standing saying that the Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first month. From all kinds of costume dramas, we have seen them from time to time. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival is famous far and near, but its prosperity has been greatly reduced because the Lantern Festival holiday has entered the modern era.
Lunar New Year's Day is the Spring Festival? Since the regulation of 19 14, it seems to have drawn a clear line with the past. In short, the Spring Festival celebrated by our contemporary people has never been celebrated by the ancients at this stage. Of course, the ancients also celebrated the Spring Festival, but it doesn't coincide with the time when we celebrate the Spring Festival now. The time period of the Spring Festival of the ancients should be from the first day to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month in the solar calendar. In this way, there is a long time difference between the Lantern Festival and the ancient Chinese New Year, so we will arrange a holiday.
(3) The Lantern Festival has a long history: To be honest, it may be because there has been no legal holiday for more than 2,000 years, so the taste of the Lantern Festival is getting weaker and weaker with age. Of course, in addition, there are also factors such as the pace of contemporary social life and the avant-garde of people's concepts. After all, the Spring Festival, which people attach the most importance to, is getting weaker and weaker, although it is not because of holidays. But we must do something to stop the weakening trend of these traditional festivals.
Lantern Festival originated in the Western Han Dynasty. It is said that it was first in the period of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. At that time, the fifteenth day of the first month was clearly designated as the Lantern Festival. As for the custom of Lantern Festival, it seems that apart from eating Yuanxiao, there is only a grand Lantern Festival. From some ancient costume movies and TV plays, we can clearly see that the Lantern Festival is bound to be related to the Lantern Festival, and its grandeur is absolutely no less than that of CCTV Spring Festival Evening.
However, on second thought, have all generations living in contemporary society seen the grand Lantern Festival around them? As far as I am concerned, I have lived in the simplest countryside since I was a child. Apart from shooting and eating Yuanxiao, there is basically no grand Lantern Festival. But as far as I know, in some other areas, there are indeed activities similar to lanterns, commonly known as folk customs? Playing with lights? 、? Catch the temple fair? .
Really looking forward to the grand occasion of the Lantern Festival?