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What is the significance and symbol of setting off fireworks in the Spring Festival?

The significance and symbol of setting off fireworks in the Spring Festival: fireworks represent happy holidays, fireworks represent festive days, fireworks represent cheerful days and represent the joy of the New Year.

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".

Spring Festival custom:

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.