{"id":2913,"date":"2011-02-03T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2011-02-03T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T08:39:35","slug":"chinese-new-year-firecrackers-and-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/china-travel\/chinese-new-year\/chinese-new-year-firecrackers-and-fireworks","title":{"rendered":"Chinese new year firecrackers and fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The year 2011\u00a0has been\u00a0the 6th successive year since the 12-year ban on the setting off of firecrackers in Beijing\u00a0was lifted in 2006 a result of public appeal to be more observant of traditional holiday customs. <\/span><\/div>\n
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There are of course pros and cons of setting off firecrackers during <\/span>Chinese New Year<\/span><\/a>. Firecrackers and fireworks do add a lot to the festival atomosphere of spring festival. Also firecrackers are meant to scare away the evil spirits and misfortunes right at the start of the year. Chinese people hope to keep the coming year free from all evil. <\/span><\/div>\n
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But\u00a0people are tortured with the noise pollution and mess. People’s eardrums burst, Pets are terrorized and the environment condition will be worsened.<\/span><\/div>\n
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No matter how deafening and sometimes fatal, firecrackers\u00a0and fireworks willl be,\u00a0they are\u00a0nonetheless an essential element of China’s most important\u00a0part of\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>Chinese New Year<\/span><\/a> celebration, which falls on\u00a0Feb 03\u00a0this year. <\/span><\/div>\n
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This year there are 1,852 outlets licensed selling fireworks in Beijing. There are only three authorized direct distributors of fireworks and they\u00a0are Panda Fireworks, Yanlong Fireworks and Doudou Fireworks. <\/span><\/div>\n
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This is one of the retailor outlets of Panda Fireworks.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This is one of the retailor outlets of Panda Fireworks - a makeshift store.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
People select and buy fireworks and firecrackers at a retailor outlet of Panda Fireworks. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Buying fireworks and fire crackers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fireworks and firecrackers on sale in the outlet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The pyrotechnics business not bad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
People are allowed to set off fireworks around the clock on Feb 2 and 3, \u00a0and between the hours of 7 am and midnight\u00a0from Feb 4 and 17, 2011.\u00a0 <\/span>The fireworks and firecrackers erupt from every corner of the city on the midnight of Feb 02 ushering in the <\/span>Chinese New Year<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Fireworks in my community 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Fireworks in my community 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Fireworks in my community 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fireworks in my community 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fireworks in my community 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The main streets in our communitiy are\u00a0covered with tattered red-paper and cardboard casings from spent fireworks last night.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The main streets in our communitiy are covered with tattered red-paper and cardboard casings from spent fireworks last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fireworks debris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At 8:00am Feb 03, 2011, I see Sanitation workers are sweeping tons of fireworks debris of firecrackers ignited on the eve of the Lunar New Year.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sanitation workers are sweeping tons of fireworks debris of firecrackers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Clean up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A cart of fireworks rubbish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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China accounts for about 75 percent of the world’s total annual firecracker production<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The year 2011\u00a0has been\u00a0the 6th successive year since the 12-year ban on the setting off of firecrackers in Beijing\u00a0was lifted in 2006 a result of public appeal to be more observant of traditional holiday customs. \u00a0 There are of course pros and cons of setting off firecrackers during Chinese New Year. Firecrackers and fireworks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[610],"tags":[854,851,853,855,852],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-new-year","tag-china-firecrackers","tag-china-new-year-fireworks","tag-chinese-firecrakers","tag-chinese-fireworks","tag-chinese-new-year-fireworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}