The Lantern Festival is not a legal holiday, so everyone didn't have a holiday yesterday. There will be two sessions soon. The NPC Representative suggested that the Lantern Festival should be included in the national legal holidays. What do you think? How did the ancient people celebrate the Lantern Festival when they did not have a holiday? Come and have a look.
Han Dynasty: one day off
The whole country celebrates and the streets are decorated with lights
Sacrifice to the God who dominates the universe
Guessing lantern riddles and eating Lantern Festival
Tang Dynasty: three days off
The government sets up light wheels, light trees and light buildings to illuminate the capital
More elaborate preparations for singing and dancing
Every dancer's dress costs a lot of money
Worth 90000 yuan today
Money is willful
Song Dynasty: five days off
At this time, lanterns, singing and dancing are not the most important
On the night of the Lantern Festival, girls will travel together
Provide opportunities for young men to meet and hook up
'when I look back, the man is in the dim light'
This is the source of the famous sentence
Ming Dynasty: ten days off
Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty issued an imperial edict in person
Ten days off, the whole country drinking and having fun
Even the night patrol officials are not allowed to disturb everyone's elegance
Four, five and eight years of Xuande
It also increased the holiday to 20 days
How do you feel after watching the ancient Lantern Festival holiday
Isn't it so stuffy?
Unfortunately, since 1949
To realize the great rejuvenation of socialist new China
We started the crazy mode
Not only the Lantern Festival, but also the Spring Festival
As evidenced by the slogan:
30 no truce, first time!
"Let's celebrate the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival,
It turns into hot and splashing molten iron in steel works like fireworks
Until 1980
Spring Festival holiday just came back to us, only 3 days
In 1999, the Spring Festival was put on for 7 days, and there was no news of the Lantern Festival
In 2007, Qingming and mid autumn successfully took the post
From 2009 to now, the Lantern Festival holiday is still a topic
As for the reason why the Lantern Festival doesn't have a holiday, it is said that the national legal holiday is fixed as 11 days, and there are too many festivals to arrange. In addition, it is because the Lantern Festival follows the long Spring Festival holiday, so it's good for everyone to eat, drink and have fun in the Spring Festival, and the Lantern Festival is free!