Is it a bad cultural habit to set off fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year?

Is it a bad cultural habit to set off fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year? I don't think it's Chinese New Year, and then fireworks are set off many times in the traditional culture of the past, which means that people have an atmosphere, a mood or a complete forgetfulness of the past, and then usher in a new beginning. We are not allowed to set off fireworks now, just because people's living conditions are good now, and they can be set off at any time at ordinary times, which will cause a lot of environmental pollution or security risks, and now people's living places are more and more concentrated, well, the risk factor is greater, so we are not allowed to set off fireworks. Setting off fireworks has reached such an embarrassing step. People are concerned about the controversy over whether to let them go. Few people think about why there is such a dilemma. It is a rational choice not to set off fireworks now.

First of all, the bloody facts

First of all, let's take a look at the Circular of the Office of the the State Council Safety Committee on the Safety Production of Fireworks and Firecrackers during the Spring Festival of 20 19 (No.3 of the Office of the Safety Committee/KLOC-0):

20 17, a major accident (6 people died) occurred in Yueyang Economic Development Zone, Hunan Province "1.24" (the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month). 20 18: Four people died in Tonghai County (2. 15) (New Year's Eve), and three people died in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province (2. 19). During the Spring Festival of 20 19, on February 5 (the first day of the first month), a serious fireworks accident occurred in daliang town, Rong 'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, killing five people.

During the Spring Festival, this fresh life was taken away, and countless people were injured and disabled by setting off fireworks. Bloody facts tell us that fireworks and firecrackers are extremely unsafe now. From the production and sale of fireworks and firecrackers to the discharge, safety accidents occur frequently. For example, at 7: 32 on February 4, 20 1965438, a major explosion occurred in the workshop of Liuyang Bixi Fireworks Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 13, resulting in 13 deaths and 13 injuries (four others were slightly injured and not hospitalized), resulting in direct economic losses/kloc-0. (Quoted from Xinhuanet)

Second, why is it natural for a small county to ban fireworks?

From 20 14 in Suining county, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, fireworks and firecrackers are prohibited, only on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The residents in the county applauded, strongly supported and consciously obeyed, and the implementation of banning fireworks and firecrackers was extremely smooth. In the 1990s and the beginning of this century, fireworks and firecrackers were repeatedly banned in this county. As a result, fireworks and firecrackers were repeatedly banned, but this time they were completely banned. What is the reason? Mainly fireworks and firecrackers have become a public hazard in small counties. For example, many people are injured by fireworks and firecrackers, fires caused by fireworks and firecrackers occur frequently, and many sick old people cannot rest or lose their lives because of the noise made by fireworks and firecrackers. This situation is not uncommon, and the garbage made by fireworks and firecrackers piles up into mountains, and so on. Residents are miserable, and it is natural that the ban on fireworks and firecrackers is put on the agenda again.

Third, fireworks manufacturers push fireworks to self-destruction.

Since it comes to inheriting history and culture, we have to compare traditional fireworks with modern fireworks. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, people put gunpowder into bamboo tubes and lit them with lead wires, which made a louder noise and smoke than when burning bamboo joints, driving away evil spirits and dispersing miasma. In the Song Dynasty, people began to wrap (fire) medicine in paper rolls and weave them into strings, which were called "guns" and later changed to firecrackers. This traditional craft of making firecrackers has lasted for nearly a thousand years. From then on, there was a tube made of paper bigger than firecrackers, which was filled with nitrosulfonic acid, named Big Firecracker, also called Spring Thunder. In ancient times, firecrackers were mainly loud.

In the early 1980s, the electro-optical gun was invented, which has the effects of flash and sound. These two kinds are still traditional firecrackers. Nowadays, firecrackers are mixed with potassium chlorate and sulfur or sulfide. Potassium chlorate is the most commonly used oxidant in the production of fireworks and firecrackers, and it is a strong oxidant. Firecrackers made of this medicine have many accidents and great destructive power. Although the country has listed drugs as prohibited drugs, informal manufacturers and workshops are still using them privately. The power of firecrackers made by regular manufacturers and traditional firecrackers is several times or even ten times that of traditional firecrackers.

In addition, both ends of traditional firecrackers are filled with small soil, mainly paper, and the soil is also powdery. Now firecrackers are filled with a lot of soil and become solidified. After the traditional firecrackers are put off, only scraps of paper are missing from the soil. Now, after the firecrackers are set off, only dirt is seen on the ground, and there are few scraps of paper. At present, the destructive power of small firecrackers is several times that of traditional big firecrackers, and the destructive power of big firecrackers is no less than that of small grenades. The solid soil brought by some inferior firecrackers seems to be shrapnel in grenades, which is not negotiable. You used to set off firecrackers by holding your tail with your hands. Now, who dares to put small firecrackers in his hand without blowing off his fingers? Nowadays, firecrackers not only produce garbage, but also pollute the air and soil with chemicals.

Fourth, the way of setting off fireworks has lost its civilization.

In the past, people mainly set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. Except for large-scale activities, such as the Lantern Festival, fireworks are almost never set off. Therefore, setting off fireworks is not a historical culture, and there is no problem of inheritance. And the folks who set off firecrackers are also very temperate. For example, on the first day of New Year's Day, twelve big firecrackers, two small firecrackers (one string is 1,000 or 500) and a dozen strings are set off in most places. When paying homage to the ancestors and celebrating the New Year, there are usually a few big firecrackers and a few strings of small firecrackers, but not many.

It's different now. Fireworks and firecrackers together, the more the better, piled up. Now folk firecrackers have basically been eliminated, and loud fireworks have replaced diving. There are fewer and fewer small strings of firecrackers sealed with paper, and they all use big round firecrackers, which are getting bigger and bigger and more destructive. In some places, when setting off firecrackers, they compete with each other for strength and competitiveness. When they are lit for a few hours, they are full of flames and smoke. Also, after CCTV Spring Festival Evening rings the New Year bell, fireworks are set off in urban and rural areas all over the country at 0: 00 on New Year's Eve. Fireworks are the most common time during the Spring Festival. In fact, there was no such custom in most parts of China before. Are these also historical cultures? Aren't the bad habits formed in these decades worth inheriting?

In short, fireworks and firecrackers have lost the flavor of traditional customs until today, and they have been unrecognizable except firecrackers. I don't object to setting off firecrackers (excluding fireworks) according to traditional customs during the Spring Festival, but I object to the use of firecrackers with great destructive power and pollution. If we really want to inherit history and culture, we should make traditional firecrackers in the traditional way and set off firecrackers in the traditional way. That is the real historical and cultural heritage. I don't think setting off fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year is a bad cultural habit. On the contrary, it is a good inheritance of traditional culture. In recent years, fireworks and firecrackers have been set off over the years, but the main reason is that fireworks and firecrackers are easy to cause fires in the New Year. Some losses caused by the fire are incalculable, so relevant orders will be limited.