Mesorat%20hashas for Taanit 34:13

אמר מר מתמניא ביה עד סוף מועדא איתותב חגא דשבועיא דלא למיספד למה לי עד סוף מועד לימא עד המועד ומועד גופיה יום טוב הוא ואסור אמר רב פפא כדאמר רב לא נצרכא

The Master said: From the New Moon of Nisan until the eighth of the month mourning is not permissible because the Daily offering was established. Why does it state, 'from the New Moon'? Let it state from the second of Nisan and as New Moon itself is a festive day mourning is in any case forbidden thereon! - Rab replied: This is necessary in order to extend the restriction to the preceding day. But should not the restriction in any case apply to it seeing that it is the day before New Moon? - New Moon is a biblical ordinance, and a biblical ordinance needs no [additional] strengthening. For it has been taught: Mourning is forbidden before and after the days enumerated in the Megillath Ta'anith; as for Sabbaths and Festivals mourning is forbidden on the day before their incidence but not after their incidence. Why this differentiation between the two? The latter are biblical ordinances and need no [additional] strengthening, but the former are ordinances of the Soferim and ordinances of the Soferim need [additional] strengthening. The Master said: 'From the eighth of the same month until the end of the festival [Passover] mourning is not permissible since the date of the observance of the Feast of Weeks was then definitely fixed.' Why does it state, 'until the end of the festival'? Let it state 'until the festival' and the festival itself being a hol ipso facto be a forbidden period for mourning? - R'Papa replied: [The answer is] as Rab who said: This was necessary

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