In fact, we should pay more attention to traditional festivals.
Yesterday, relevant media reported: On February 28th, at the Third China Social Development Policy Forum held by China Renmin University, Professor Zhai Zhenwu, Dean of the School of Social and Population, revealed: "The adjustment of national statutory holidays has now entered the stage of soliciting opinions, specifically involving shortening the May 1 ST and 11 th holidays and increasing the statutory holidays of traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day." However, when our reporter contacted Professor Zhai Zhenwu yesterday afternoon, he made it clear that he never said "enter the substantive stage". However, this news caused a heated discussion after being reported by the media.
Professor Zhai Zhenwu said that on February 28th, when he reviewed the excellent papers published in previous years' forums, he mentioned the proposal of "adding Chinese traditional festivals as legal holidays" first formally put forward by Ji Baocheng, President of the National People's Congress in 2004. "What I said at that time was that the country has been studying this issue for several years, and it is estimated that it is time to enter a substantive stage. This is my personal estimate. There is no official source. But I personally support this suggestion very much. "
The newspaper and Dayang.com(www.dayoo.com) launched a survey. According to the survey, nearly half of the respondents and netizens support making traditional festivals legal holidays, and 60% netizens in the support group expect the holiday days of traditional festivals to be two or three days. Opposition and reformists account for a large proportion. Most of the opponents are employees of private enterprises. They think that legal holidays are only beneficial to people who "eat public grain". For employees in private enterprises, "one day's deduction for not going to work" is of little significance.
Two groups of netizens
Keep a long vacation to school.
Golden Week is a lifeline for busy people.
Mr. Chen, an employee of an IT company in Guangzhou: You can't cancel the long vacation. My work is very busy. Without such a big holiday, the company won't have a holiday. For festivals like Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, it companies won't have a holiday at all.
User DDE: I think the proposal to cancel the long holiday is very bad. It is a great good thing for civil servants to cancel long holidays and take paid vacations, but it is unfair for those of us who work in enterprises. Do you think it is possible to ask our boss to agree to a paid vacation? Deduct one day's money if you don't go to work.
Looking forward to the long vacation reunion of separation between the two places.
Netizen "Chen chen": Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, etc. It can be changed into a legal holiday, but the time should not be shortened on May 1 day and 1 1 day. I belong to a group where husband and wife live apart, and I can't meet until the May 11th holiday. If May Day and Eleventh Day are put aside for three days, the time spent on the light road will be two days, and it is impossible to get together.
Netizen B3333 (anonymous): Usually, children go to school and adults go to work, so I finally wait until the long vacation to take my children home to see their parents. There are three days in seven days on the road, and the holiday in November and May cannot be cancelled.
Reform long holiday schools
The Spring Festival is at least half a month away.
Netizen LDD999 (anonymous): The Spring Festival holiday in China is too short, and it should be put from the 30th of the twelfth lunar month to at least the 15th of the first month. It's too late to take a bus in such a short time. People in China pay attention to their own Spring Festival. How wonderful it is to be reunited.
Golden Week "Slimming" New Year's Eve Holiday
Huang Weiwen, a salesman of Tianhe Ding Gang Electronic City: We can keep the Golden Week on the 11th, reduce the May Day holiday and take 3-5 days off. In addition, traditional festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day should be strengthened. I haven't visited my grandfather's grave in my hometown for many years.
Netizen "fled": National Day, canceled May Day and New Year's Day holidays, and added traditional festivals. We should have a holiday one day in advance on New Year's Eve, which can increase consumption.
Double Ninth Festival and Qixi Festival should be on holiday.
Netizen abcd (anonymous): The seven-day holiday should be cancelled. Change it to a three-day combined holiday (two days on weekends, plus a holiday). The three-day holiday combination includes Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Lunar New Year (the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the north) and Qixi (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month).
Expert opinions/suggestions
It is "unbearable" not to have a holiday on New Year's Eve.
Mr. Yuan, an associate researcher at the China Institute of Cultural History of Jinan University, believes that traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, New Year's Eve and Dragon Boat Festival have a long history and popular foundation, and it is completely feasible to list them as legal holidays with more humanistic characteristics. He said that although traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are not legal holidays, in fact, many citizens are still on holiday or simply leave their posts. "Because they have left their jobs, it is certainly difficult to really get into holiday life."
Yuan said that it is particularly uncomfortable not to have a holiday on New Year's Eve. In China folklore, New Year's Eve is even more important than the first day of New Year's Eve, especially the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. Many people who go out to work try their best to get home for the New Year's Eve, otherwise it will not be the New Year's Eve at home. He suggested changing the seven-day holiday of the Spring Festival from "the first day to the seventh day of the Spring Festival" to "the 30th day to the sixth day of the Spring Festival".
Regarding the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, Yuan believes that if we continue to increase the holidays, it may have a negative impact on normal production and increase the operating costs of enterprises. He suggested a flexible vacation. For example, the most important thing in Mid-Autumn Festival is family reunion and enjoying the moon at night, so only half a day off in the afternoon.