The Study Of Official Holiday System In Northern Song Dynasty

The Northern Song Dynasty official holiday system is initially based on the inheriting of the Tang Dynasty of holiday system, through the development and perfection of Northern Song Dynasty gradually formed a unique system of vacation, holiday system is an important part of the Northern Song Dynasty political system, holiday system is a fundamental welfare officials enjoyed by officials. Holiday system not only rich life of officials, but also to promote the efficient operation of government, officials is respected very much by Northern Song Dynasty. The government of the Northern Song Dynasty pay attention to officials of daily life situation, not only paid attention to in politics, but also to enrich their life in daily life, the Northern song dynasty formulation, development and perfecting process of the official holiday system is one of the performance.This paper mainly gives a discussion on official holiday system in Northern Song Dynasty from four parts:The first part, this paper discusses mainly the formation of holiday system of song dynasty, the northern song dynasty official discourse formation of holiday system in detail.The second part,mainly discusses the kinds of holiday system,divided into three parts in this paper,divided into public holidays,private holidays,because emperor who did not go to court and get some rest time.Mainly discusses the content of the Northern Song Dynasty official holiday.The public holiday are mainly ten days a fixed holiday and traditional holidays.Officials themselves holiday including marriage leave,funeral leave and sick leave of holiday.The main content is discussed official of vacation days.Do not meet the emperor holiday is called“chaojia”(朝假)that mainly have two kinds reasons of natural and man-made,one is the bad weather conditions or special weather phenomenon,two is due to the important characters(such as the imperial concubines died and important minister etc.)death enjoy the holiday.The third part, official of leisure activities during the holiday, mainly divided into two parts: one is the activities of traditional festivals, the two is the official activities during Emperor birthday, then a separate section discusses special decree during the holiday, such as a ban on the implementation of the death penalty during the holiday.The fourth part, the influence of the holiday for the official career, and the official attitude on vacation, mainly discussed the influence of funeral leave, sick leave for official career. If officials for funeral leave or sick leave for a long time, far from officialdom long time will inevitably have an impact on his career.In general, through the discussion of this paper, we can have a further understanding of the Northern Song Dynasty official holiday system, We will have a relatively comprehensive understanding for the northern song dynasty official of political life and daily life.