What's the point of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day?

Setting off firecrackers on the first day is as follows:

1, whoever sets off firecrackers earlier on the first day of the New Year will make a fortune, and will make a fortune next year. People get dressed when they get up for the first time. First, they open the door. After opening the door, they will put three door-opening guns outside. It's called "Zhenmen cannon", also called "big pendant", and it's very loud. It indicates that the coming year will be smooth and smooth.

2. The customs of New Year's Day include: wearing new clothes, paying New Year's greetings, setting off firecrackers, making tea with silver ingots, cooking jiaozi, eating New Year's Eve, and so on. On the morning of the Spring Festival, when the door is opened, firecrackers are first set off, which is called opening firecrackers. After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is the so-called "full house". At this time, the streets are full of anger and joy.

Folk customs of the Spring Festival:

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs, which have strong regional characteristics. During the Spring Festival, there are many kinds of celebrations, such as lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, worshipping gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, enjoying lanterns, beating gongs and drums, flying flags, lighting fireworks, praying for blessings, dancing spring dance, walking on stilts, running dry boats, dancing yangko and so on.

During the Spring Festival, you can find it everywhere, such as posting New Year's greetings, observing New Year's Eve, having a reunion dinner and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to different local customs, the nuances have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of China people's life and culture.

Spring Festival is a new day to take off old cloth. Although it is arranged on the first day of the first lunar month, the activities of the Spring Festival are not limited to the first day of the first lunar month. Since the end of the year, people have been busy with the Chinese New Year: offering sacrifices to stoves, sweeping dust, buying new year's goods, hanging New Year's greetings, washing their hair and taking a bath, decorating with lanterns and so on. All these activities have a common theme, that is, "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new".

The Spring Festival is a joyful, peaceful and family reunion festival, and it is also a carnival festival, which is an eternal spiritual pillar for people to express their yearning for happiness and freedom. The Spring Festival is also a time to worship ancestors and pray for the New Year. Sacrifice is a belief activity, created by ancient human survival activities, and expected to coexist harmoniously with heaven and earth.