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The custom of playing social fire

Shehui Huo, also known as Zaohuo Huo, is a traditional folk custom in northern China.

Annual festivals are held on New Year's Day, and performances are held through the streets and villages, which has become an event for people to celebrate the achievements of the year, and now it is for the red-hot good luck. Social fire cohesion of the working people's deep cultural genes, reflecting the characteristics of the nation, the full expression of the working people's excellent cultural concepts and aesthetic ideas of folk art treasures. Generally from the eleventh day of the first month after the start.

So the 11th day of the first month is also called on the color day, the night to eat on the color meal. Social fire can be extended to the 29th day of the first month. Each township, each village has its own social day. On the night of the day, the head of the community will be prepared for the program in order, the actors dressed in various roles, in various modes of transportation through the streets and villages, so that the masses to watch.

The size of the festival generally indicates the prosperity of the village. The customary activities of social fire had once disappeared, in recent years in some overseas Chinese townships and gradually revived, and became the villages to celebrate the achievements of the year event.