The Spring Festival holiday in 2021 is from February 11th to February 17th. Judging from the national legal holiday list, the Spring Festival lasts for 7 days, followed by the 3-day Qingming holiday; Between the festival and Qingming Festival, there is another traditional Chinese festival, which is the annual Lantern Festival? Lantern Festival? on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. So many people are wondering: Why can’t the Lantern Festival be designated as a legal holiday? But what I want to tell you is that since the founding of New China, the Lantern Festival has always been missed. The war will not stop at thirty, but continue on the first day of the new year? This is the slogan shouted by the people in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. When they are joking after tea and dinner, there is no holiday on the first day of the new year, let alone the Lantern Festival. The reason why the Lantern Festival is not designated as a legal holiday actually reflects the flexibility of the country's policy formulation. It is because the Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival are too close. The seven-day holiday of the Spring Festival is already very long. If the Lantern Festival falls again, then it will be like this Frequent holidays will affect the work of most office workers. (1) It is obviously a traditional festival, but it is not a legal holiday
We have highlighted the key points above in a concise and concise manner: Because the Lantern Festival and the New Year Festival are too close, the country does not set a legal holiday during the Lantern Festival . The Spring Festival in 2021 is actually on February 12, and the seven days of the New Year Festival are scheduled to be from February 11 to 17; the Lantern Festival is on February 26, which is only 8 days away from the last day of the Spring Festival holiday. This means that if an office worker works for 8 days, he will be on holiday again.
Furthermore, the time between the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival is fixed. The time between the two is 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 lunar month. Regardless of the two festivals, To calculate, it is a fixed difference of 15 days. In fact, in my opinion, if the general public wants to set the Lantern Festival as a legal holiday, then the Spring Festival holiday time can only be shortened. But if this is the case, some people will definitely stand up and disagree. .
For those who have retired, whether there is a holiday for the Lantern Festival or not does not actually have much impact. However, for the two largest groups in society, namely students and office workers, it has a huge impact. Nothing short of huge. For students, self-disciplined students are okay, especially unself-disciplined students. After the Spring Festival, they finally return to school to get into the state of study. After studying for less than a week, they will face the Lantern Festival holiday, and the study state is very likely to collapse instantly. . (2) People familiar with history: Why were there holidays in ancient times? No holidays in modern times?
Let me simply tell you a wise saying: "On the basis of advancing with the times, conduct necessary specific analysis of specific issues."
In ancient times, the Lantern Festival was indeed a legal holiday in the imperial decrees, and it can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. It continued from the Western Han Dynasty to the last dynasty of the feudal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, before and after. ***In the past 1900, various dynasties have set different days of holidays during the Lantern Festival. But looking at modern and contemporary times, we don’t need to think too much about the term "Lantern Festival".
During the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, there was a one-day holiday; during the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was a three-day holiday; during the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, there was a five-day holiday; during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there was a roughly ten-day holiday; and in the last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, there was a three-day holiday. The saying that the Lantern Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been around for a long time. From various costume dramas, we have seen it from time to time. The Lantern Festival lantern festival is famous far and wide. However, due to the current situation of the Lantern Festival holiday since it entered modern times, The prosperity is no longer what it used to be. Is the New Year's Day of the lunar calendar the Spring Festival? Since it was stipulated in 1914, it seems to have been clearly distinguished from the past. In short, the Spring Festival celebrated by our contemporary people did not have the same festival as the ancients at this stage. Of course, the ancients also celebrated the New Year, but it did not coincide with the time when we celebrate the Spring Festival now. The ancient people's New Year should be from the first to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month in the solar calendar. From this point of view, there is a long gap between the Lantern Festival and the ancient New Year period, so the holiday is arranged. (3) The Lantern Festival has a long history: more than 2,000 years ago
To be honest, maybe because the Lantern Festival is not a statutory holiday, the flavor of the Lantern Festival has become less and less as time goes by. . Of course, in addition to this, there are also factors such as the rhythm of contemporary social life and the avant-garde of people's ideas. After all, the Spring Festival, which people attach most importance to, has become less and less full of flavor, although it is not because of the holidays. But we must think of some ways to prevent the trend of these traditional festivals becoming weaker and weaker.
The Lantern Festival originated in the Western Han Dynasty. It is said that it was first during the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was clearly designated as the Lantern Festival. As for the customs of the Lantern Festival, it seems that apart from eating Lantern Festival, there is only a grand lantern festival. From some costume movies and TV dramas, we can clearly see that the Lantern Festival is bound to be related to the Lantern Festival, and its grandness is , definitely no less than the current CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
But then I think about it, people of all generations living in contemporary society, have you ever seen a grand light show during the Lantern Festival? As a post-90s generation, I have lived in the most simple rural areas since I was a child. Apart from setting off firecrackers and eating Yuanxiao, there are basically no grand lantern festivals held during the Lantern Festival.
But as far as I know, in some other areas, there are indeed activities similar to lanterns, which are commonly known as "lantern shows" and "temple fairs".
Really yearning for the grand scene when thousands of houses are lit up during the Lantern Festival?