The Tang Dynasty has an extremely important position in ancient China, its incomparably lofty international status makes it have a very legendary color, coupled with a stable political environment, a prosperous economy, an open culture, so that the people live a happy and stable life, but the most exciting thing for the people is that the Tang Dynasty has a maximum of twenty-nine rest days a year.
During this time, ordinary people and officials can enjoy themselves. If you're an official, you'll even take about a third of your annual leave. The rise of official poetry in the Tang Dynasty not only had institutional factors, but also may have the blessing of the holiday system. This gives them a lot of time to improve their literary style and hone their works.
The religious and cultural openness of the Tang Dynasty was not just talk. At that time, as long as you don't rebel and break the law, no one will care what's going on in your head. Once cultured officials had inspiration during the holidays, they were recorded, and some became heirloom works.
The people and officials of the Tang Dynasty took a day off on The arrival of Laojun Christmas, Buddha's Birthday and Zhongyuan Festival, and the way to take a vacation and leisure was not only to eat, drink and have fun, but also to carry out various activities of religious etiquette, which was different from most of today's habits.
Among the three festivals, it is generally believed that Laojun Christmas is a Taoist holiday, and The Buddha's Birthday is understood as a Buddhist holiday. But the mid-metaverse is a little different from what we understand now. It is not only a ghost festival, but also the birthday of a Taoist Zhiguan, as opposed to the Buddhist "Buddha's Birthday".
China has always been a big agricultural country in history, without exception, and the Tang Dynasty, as an agricultural power, attached great importance to the guarantee of agricultural production, so that people had enough time for agricultural production or agricultural rest. At the end of each important solar term or year, the Tang Dynasty would take a holiday to allow officials, soldiers, and industrial and commercial personnel to support the peasants' enthusiasm for production.
These festivals do not support agricultural affairs as the first priority, and in addition, there is no official mandatory preparation or regulation, and they have been exploited. Even if someone takes this opportunity to take a vacation and enjoy the scenery, the government will turn a blind eye.
And among those who can play as they please in such a festival, there will be many powerful officials. Instead, poor farmers continue to run for their livelihoods during the holiday season. Such a situation has a similar case to the contemporary one, which seems to be a repetition of history, and the contemporary and the ancient look in the mirror.
Since there is a Laojun Christmas and a Buddha's birthday, why can't the emperor's birthday be used as a rest day? In this regard, the romantic Tang Xianzong exerted his ingenuity and creativity, set his birthday as a national holiday, and opened the trend of the emperor's birthday as a festival (the emperor's birthday is a national holiday).
On this festival, officials took a collective vacation, the emperor held large banquets, entertained many ministers, and awarded achievement awards and various awards for the political achievements of officials, no less than other festivals. This festival easily brought happiness and comfort to the emperor, so more than a dozen emperors in Tang Xianzong's descendants also repeated the operation of the previous emperor and set their birthdays as a national holiday.
Therefore, Christmas became an important holiday in the Tang Dynasty. However, because the monarchs of some later dynasties seemed to attach little importance to their birthdays, they believed that there was no need to continue the festival, so the custom of the emperor's birthday festival did not continue.
Many of the festivals of the Tang Dynasty were commemorative festivals used to commemorate great people, ancestors or important historical events, and played an important role. For example, Qu Yuan, who is well known to everyone, is commemorated by the Dragon Boat Festival, and has also become an indispensable festival every year, and the blessing of Zongzi and dragon boats is more meaningful. The difficulty of Anshi is very famous in history, and the Zhonghua Festival is to commemorate the difficulty of Anshi.
The Tang Dynasty greatly respected traditional culture and attached great importance to the inheritance of cultural customs, so it preserved them and benefited future generations. Since then, because of this special significance and cultural value, most of the festivals in the Tang Dynasty have been handed down and have become a beautiful scenery of Chinese cultural customs in history and today.
Since China is a large agricultural country and production activities are affected by solar terms, the ancient Chinese were very sensitive to annual changes. After a year of hard work, people need to relax. At the beginning of the year, we must also rejoice in the new year's labor.
The Tang Dynasty had already formed many festivals at the beginning of the year, and the people of the Tang Dynasty did not refuse, and they were all preserved. The beginning of the Tang Dynasty was simply a meeting place for festivals, including Yuan Day, Ren Day, Asahi Festival, etc. At that time, the first month was actually a carnival month, and various activities came to the face, making people unhappy.
Summary: But in carnival, it is easy for many people to forget the original meaning of the festival. For example, the human day is the day when the heavens created man under the ancient people's heavenly induction thought, and its significance gradually disappeared in the celebrations of later generations, and some festivals at the beginning of this year lost their connotation and disappeared, which makes people regret it.