Comparison Of The Tang And Song Festival

The tang and song dynasty holiday said from the system structure that, appeared the folk traditional holiday and the official holiday system, rulers have conscious to establish festivals according the advent of significant things or the birthday of a dynasty (or country), emperor's festival made just because of this, it is the most typical festival of the official holiday, during the process of development, it has own features. For example, the amount of the festivals it was made, the congratulation scale, the source of the funds and the influences on the customs of birthday. Etc. the emperor's festival appeared on account of a series of transformations on politics and economics. When it was constructed, on the one hand, it made the Chinese holiday system structure (the official and the folk traditional holiday system) more perfect, on the other hand, It embodied the situation about the transition of politics on tang and song dynasty. Although it is the symbol of the monarch centralization of state power, all the festival activities and the assembled moods is a kind of valuable relic civilization. There is no doubt that it flourished the whole society.The dragon's day and the winter solstice festival are the important folk traditional holiday on tang and song dynasty, the inheritance and the development on festival activities, rites and customs, the relationship between exchanging gifts on holiday and social mobilization, when we know these, we will know people's conditions better than ever, especially during the special time of tang and song dynasty transformation.