When can we set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival in Lixian County, Changde City, Hunan Province?

According to traditional customs, firecrackers are set off on New Year's Eve to drive away monsters. But now from the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 2nd day of February, there are many.

On New Year's Eve, people in China have the custom of setting off firecrackers. Especially during the first sexual intercourse, firecrackers and fireworks exploded in urban and rural areas. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a fierce monster called Nian, which was in the deep sea all the year round, but at the turn of the old and the new, it came out to trample on crops and hurt people and animals, and the people complained bitterly. Once it went to the village to do evil again and was scared away by the red clothes hanging at the door. When I arrived at another place, I was scared by the lights and ran around. So people have mastered the weakness of Nian's fear of sound, red and fire. At the end of each year, people put up red couplets, set off firecrackers, hang red lights, burn wood for fire in the yard, and chop vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, which makes a lot of noise. So everyone should set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

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This custom has a history of more than 2000 years in China. The Story of Jingchu Times once recorded that on the first day of the first month, when the rooster crowed for the first time, everyone got up and set off firecrackers in their own yard to drive away the evil spirits of plague. At that time, there was no gunpowder and paper, so people burned bamboo to make it burst and make a sound to drive away the plague. This is of course superstition, but it reflects the ancient working people's beautiful desire for Aetna. Firecrackers in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "blasting poles", probably burned a long bamboo pole piece by piece and made a continuous blasting sound. Nanchang poet Lai Hu's poem "Early Spring": "The new calendar is only half open, and the pavilion is still bursting. I wrote the scene of burning bamboo poles during the Spring Festival.