To tell you the truth, in this world, it's really true to be early.
1949 for a long time after the founding of new China, there were only four national legal holidays, including New Year's Day 1 day, Spring Festival for three days, Labor Day 1 day and National Day for two days, making a total of seven days.
By the end of 1960s, there was a wave of "voluntary labor" all over the country, which was to be used for construction during the Spring Festival. The slogan is: Have a revolutionary Spring Festival without a holiday.
It was not until 1979 People's Daily published a letter from readers, "Why not have a holiday during the Spring Festival", that all localities resumed the Spring Festival holiday one after another.
The Chinese nation is a hardworking nation, so it's no big deal not to have a holiday. If we were not rich then, our wallets would be cleaner than our faces. Even if we have a holiday, what can we do? A family of four or five people is crowded into a small house. You stare at me and I blow your beard. What's the point? Might as well go to work.
What's more, working at that time was very different from now. No students punch in, no KPI, no daily and weekly newspapers, making a cup of tea at work, and the workers chattering. After work, they can play chess and have a glass of wine. Although the salary is different, the secretary of the factory director doesn't get a few dollars more than us. Why not take such a class?
Quiet days flow like running water, reaching 1999.
That year, the rest were born.
What it's like for China people to experience a "long vacation" for the first time. Coupled with the bulging pockets, many scenic spots were crowded with people for the first time during the seven-day holiday of National Day and Spring Festival. Although I was on vacation at that time, I couldn't control everyone's enthusiasm. After all, for the first time, people in China have felt the terms of vacation, recuperation and tourism, which originally only appeared in foreign novels. They only have gratitude in their hearts.
This tourist craze is getting worse and worse, so that everyone feels it is necessary to make another cut. Thus, in 2008, in addition to the seven-day holiday, the Qingming Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival were also included in the category of national rest days for the first time, and the rest and recuperation system we are familiar with today was put on the final patch.
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When did the well-implemented recuperation start to taste bad?
People born in the 1980s and early 1990s began to work slowly.
A large number of young people from campus to the workplace have joined the rolling tide of market economy, and they have been dumped upside down before they can gallop in it.
They don't have time to feel the benefits of socialism, such as the distribution of university packages and work packages, but they just hit the market and capital, such as unpaid overtime, such as high housing prices, such as 996 or 007. This kind of life is really like being a monk for a day, and I don't want to spend more than one second.
As we all know, the extra two days off from a long vacation always depends on going to work to make up for it. And it doesn't have to involve work and colleagues at ordinary times, but holidays will inevitably involve: in order to prevent traffic jams, everyone has to get up earlier than anyone else in the morning and get up at 8 o'clock at work. Speaking of holidays, expressway is already full of private cars waiting for customs clearance at 6 am.
The only thing I am happy about is the owner of the hotel in the scenic spot: I can catch this group of fat sheep and make great efforts. After waiting in line for three hours, I finally arrived at the legendary farmhouse, probably because there were too many guests. The so-called casserole stewed chicken has a chicken feather on its leg. At the checkout, two people ate 400 yuan, which is equivalent to your usual weekly meals.
You don't have time to argue, because you are about to go home. It's already half past three in the afternoon. If you don't hurry back, the highway will be blocked again soon.
When you got home, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. You are so tired that you fall into bed, take out your mobile phone, and the calendar reminds you to go to work for eight days in a row.
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The saddest thing is the Spring Festival.
Compared with the rush hour congestion in Spring Festival travel rush, the congestion of ordinary long holidays is nothing at all.
But this time, you have to go back. Otherwise, the parents' scolding and complaining on the other end of the phone, even if it is just a sigh, will make people knock over the five-flavor bottle, which is not the taste.
So I gritted my teeth and went home: I went to the end of two days and went to my relatives' house for two days. In fact, the day of reunion with parents is only one or two days.
Although your parents are happy, you are exhausted. Because you have been working continuously for eight days before your vacation, and you will have to work hard for another seven days after you go back.
The above is the ideal state for single people to return to China. If they get married, it will be even worse-who let most people in the late 1980s and early 1990s be only children?
The couple quarreled over who to go back to, and finally reached a compromise: your home on New Year's Eve and my home for the New Year.
Yes During the seven-day holiday, I have to toss on the road for a while. After two rounds, both of them have dishes, and they all agreed: make some money this year and take the whole family to Sanya next year!
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What can I do in Sanya? It's just to move the chaos of the May 1 National Day holiday to the Spring Festival and perform it again. There are seven or eight people in the whole family, old and young, which may be even more chaotic.
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Why are there more and more complaints about leave?
Because more and more people want to understand: people are not machines. It won't take long to use the machine.
Even for machines, can the loss caused by taking a five-day break be the same as that caused by taking a ten-day break for two days? I believe that people with a little common sense will not come to such a conclusion.
What's more, these short holidays are also endowed with full social benefits: singles are busy dating, married people are busy giving birth to children, families with two children are busy giving birth to three children, and families have to eat a neat meal and go out, always remembering their responsibilities as China people and actively spending to boost the economy.
Oh, yes, now I have to add one, considering epidemic prevention and control.
After deducting all the time, there is not much time to really catch my breath.
Of course, I admit that not everyone likes and wants to take a vacation. They have their own ideals and their own minds. They hope they can't turn a day into 48 hours and a year into 730 days, and give them all to work.
What's your feeling after reading Can't Stop?