With the recent outbreak of the epidemic again, various places have also begun large and small lockdown actions, so that people try to avoid going out, in order to control the spread, the Qingming Festival holiday is also considered to exist in name only, can only stay at home.
So how did people in ancient times spend their holidays? They didn't even have a cell phone, no computer, no wifi, and they couldn't get around very far because there were no convenient and fast cars, high-speed trains and planes. Unless the ancients rode the red rabbit horse to run eight hundred miles a day, set off in the morning to run four hundred miles, and go home at night to run another four hundred miles.
Among the number of Qingming Festival holiday days stipulated by successive dynasties, the longest is the Tang Dynasty, with 7 days, followed by the Song Dynasty, one day, then other dynasties do not have the Qingming Festival holiday? No, the official's inquiry is that labor is the most glorious, and it is the right way to work well for the imperial court and to work hard to move bricks.
So what did the ancients do when they had a holiday? The first choice is of course an outing, usually trapped in the city, there is time to go to the wild to breathe and relax, about three or five friends, bring food and wine, is boring dry rice or Bixi fishing are random, the ancient version of picnic camping has appeared. When the ancients played to the rise, they would also chant poems against each other, and many famous verses that have been passed down through the ages were born. At the same time, the business acumen of the ancients was also developed, but where there are many people with good scenery, there will be a large number of vendors gathering, special snacks and toys. In the end you think that's all there is to it? No, every outing, there must be a large number of young and beautiful women. Families have taken this opportunity to see if there is a person who looks at the right eye, if there is a fate to begin, it is also very likely that the marriage will be achieved in the end. Therefore, the outing of the ancients, which is the assembly of the blind date corner of the commercial street of the food street, is really a place that must be visited when you have time.
Second, the second choice of the ancients to take a vacation was to bathe, that is, to take a bath. In the Han Dynasty, there was a law that officials took a bath once every five days; in the Song Dynasty, bathhouses had appeared, so officials met in the bathhouse, claiming that they only went to the bathhouse once a day, and once was a day, during which not only a simple bath was taken, but also a good time to pull relations, about a few people to wash and eat, a set down will also establish a preliminary friendship. Su Shi had a lot of experience in bathing, and washed out the truth of being a human official, as evidenced by two "Like a Dream Order".
Third, sports, some people love to climb mountains, some like to play football (Keju), and those who like sports also seize this holiday to enjoy themselves. There are those who play football, there are those who watch the ball, and the people off the field are not addicted to watching it, so they rush to the court to kick it themselves, and when everyone is cheering for the goal, they understand the meaning of the ball game. In history, not only the people like to play football, officials and even emperors also like it, and it is well known that Gao Li once rose step by step because he played football well, became a high official, and rewarded him continuously.
Finally, there are also ancient people who sit at home and read books during the holidays, brew a pot of tea, that is, sit quietly for an afternoon, immersed in the sea of books, which is also excellent, and it is also the most suitable for this Qingming, not to add trouble to the country, and pray for the early recovery of the epidemic!