What's the significance of setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival?

There is a folk saying in China that "there are firecrackers when you open the door". That is to say, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Fireworks are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers".

Its origin is very early. Regarding the evolution of firecrackers, Excellent Popular Arrangement records: "Ancient firecrackers. They are all popular with real bamboo, so Tang poetry is also called explosive pole. Later people roll paper for it. It's called firecrackers.

The original purpose of firecrackers is to meet the gods and drive away ghosts. Later, with its strong festive color, it developed into a symbol to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people.

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The customs of the Spring Festival

Sweep the dust: According to the folk saying, because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", sweeping the dust in the Spring Festival means "removing the old and not renewing", and its original intention is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck.

Watching the New Year: On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, wait for the moment to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and expecting good luck in the new year.

Happy New Year: On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on their most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends and wish each other a happy New Year.

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