Setting off fireworks and firecrackers during the Spring Festival has been a folk custom in China for thousands of years. Firecrackers bring festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. As the saying goes, "firecrackers say goodbye to the old year", people use firecrackers to send away the past year and look forward to a splendid new year with fireworks.

However, after the festival, will people worry about the smell of sulfur in the air? Have you ever worried about the firecrackers on the ground? The wheel of history has entered 2 1 century. The traditional custom of polygamy in China has been corrected, the old custom of women's foot-binding has also died out, the old monarchy has been overthrown by democracy, feudal superstition has been replaced by science, and most of those old customs have been transformed into new ones. Why can't the tradition of setting off fireworks be changed?

First of all, let's rationally analyze the advantages and disadvantages of setting off fireworks:

The benefits of setting off fireworks:

1: As a traditional custom of the Chinese nation, setting off fireworks can add festive atmosphere;

2. For some interest groups, the production, transportation, sales and management of fireworks and firecrackers have considerable interest space.

Some people think that without firecrackers, there is no flavor of the year.

In the past 10 year, due to environmental and safety factors, there were 282 cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Nanjing, Changsha and Suzhou. However, for many people in China, the New Year without firecrackers is like cooking without salt-it is boring and boring. Mr. Li, who is doing business in Beijing, bought several thousand yuan of fireworks and firecrackers this year, and several friends went to their courtyard in Tongxian County to make up enough. Look at the children's excited faces when shooting. He said that it is "unlucky" to set off flowers for the Spring Festival and firecrackers, and he prayed for a prosperous business in the coming year. Besides, when my daughter grows up, she won't remember the New Year with firecrackers. What a pity! "Setting off fireworks and firecrackers is very simple on the surface, but it is actually rich in connotation. The Chinese New Year is a tradition of the Chinese nation for more than a thousand years, reflecting a nation's positive psychological expectations and, to some extent, a concrete manifestation of Chinese traditional culture. " Zhang said, vice chairman of China Folklore Society.

Disadvantages of setting off fireworks:

1: Setting off fireworks is definitely polluting the environment, especially for the high-density residential space in the city;

2. The discharge, sale and preservation of fireworks and firecrackers are very dangerous, which will seriously endanger the life safety and personal safety of the public.

Two days before the New Year, on the evening of February 7, a villager in Changxindian Township, Fengtai District, Beijing, was blown up beyond recognition by firecrackers and died on the spot. According to witnesses at the scene, the diameter of the "two kicks" is 10 cm. During the Spring Festival holiday, many people were injured and burned by fireworks and firecrackers because of carelessness and improper discharge. "On New Year's Eve, from dinner time to around 20 o'clock, there were 16 fireworks patients in our hospital, who had three hand trauma operations, and they were too busy for emergency treatment." Yang Haiting, the Third People's Hospital of Jinan, said that these patients were busy setting off firecrackers as soon as it got dark, and as a result, they became the first "victims" of setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve. Mr. Chen, 22, is very happy to set off firecrackers with his family on New Year's Eve. However, when setting off a large fireworks display, he never expected that the fireworks display did not rush into the sky, but exploded in the barrel. He couldn't dodge, his eyes were injured, and his whole face and arms were burned to varying degrees. After being sent to the Second People's Hospital of Jinan City, he was treated by experts in time, and his eyes were temporarily saved. According to the introduction of the eye explosion injury treatment team specially set up in the hospital, from the New Year's Eve to the sixth day, they treated more than 20 patients with eye explosion injury. In the first hospital of Zhejiang Medical University, the second hospital of Zhejiang Medical University and other major hospitals in Hangzhou, the cases of "explosive deafness" caused by firecrackers and "sudden deafness" caused by irregular life these days are all above 100. Alin, a 0/5-year-old boy from Hangzhou, has had bad ears, especially his left ear, since he and his cousin set off fireworks for more than two hours on the second day of the Lunar New Year. His parents were very anxious. After taking him to the hospital, they found that Alin's left eardrum had been perforated.

It is not difficult to see from the advantages and disadvantages listed that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. After all, personal safety and public safety are higher than group interests and traditional customs.

So why continue this bad habit of doing more harm than good? As early as the mid-1990s, fireworks and firecrackers were banned in Shenyang for several years, and the public reacted strongly, both for and against them. However, the municipal government made a decisive decision to prohibit the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers. During the Spring Festival, Shenyang is very quiet. When people celebrate the Spring Festival, there is really a lack of festive atmosphere, because there are no firecrackers to set off. But what did they get? During the Spring Festival, Shenyang has no cause. There were no casualties caused by fireworks in major hospitals. Spring Festival without fire, without casualties, although there is no lively atmosphere, it is a real family gathering.

Later, Mayor Mu stepped down and fireworks were banned. According to the official statement, this move is to let everyone feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival more, and it is true. On the eighth day of every year, long firecrackers will be placed at the gates of major organs, enterprises and institutions for more than half an hour. If you are careful, you will find that firecrackers are not so enthusiastic on the evening of the 30th every year, and the most enthusiastic is the morning of the eighth day.

I don't know if anyone has counted whether firecrackers are consumed by citizens or by government agencies, enterprises and institutions. After the ban is lifted, there will always be a faint siren in the firecrackers. Among the thousands of lights, there are always several families who are sad for the firecrackers. Every year, major hospitals will treat some casualties caused by improper discharge. Every Spring Festival, sanitation workers in Shenyang have to give up the opportunity of family reunion and take to the streets to clean up a large number of firecrackers. At this time, the fire officers and soldiers also went to the police and were busy until late. They have the right to spend the Spring Festival like everyone else, but they gave up this opportunity for firecrackers. I think they will be reluctant, but the nature of their work can only make them so.

Who doesn't want to have a safe Spring Festival? When those two people in the opposite building kicked your balcony glass, when the midnight firecrackers woke up your newborn child in this world, when the scattered fireworks blackened your car, when you were scared by the sudden firecrackers when walking in the street. Do you still approve of setting off fireworks?

In recent years, the voice of keeping fireworks and firecrackers in the Spring Festival to increase the festive atmosphere is getting higher and higher. Some experts have suggested that it is not feasible to simply "ban" or "release". The government should strengthen guidance and management, standardize the discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, and minimize the harm, instead of stopping it at once. The solution lies in finding the combination of "prohibition" and "release"-organized restrictions. Gao Youpeng, director of the Institute of Folk Culture of Henan University, suggested that "the simple' banning' will inevitably lead to the monotony of festival cultural symbols, which will endanger the continuation of traditional culture. The government should choose a place where most people can accept and social security is guaranteed, and set off fireworks and firecrackers in an organized manner within a specific period of time to strengthen the positive function of folk customs. "

"The implementation of the no-entry regulations for so many years has put the police in a dilemma of' management' and' no matter'. We have neither correctly guided the original folk customs nor further improved the management measures, putting the government on the opposite side of the people, leading to' hide and seek' between the masses and the government, damaging and distorting the function of the law. " Lawyer Zhu analyzed. At present, the policy of banning fireworks and firecrackers in Harbin, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Jinan and other cities has been loosened, and the original comprehensive ban has been adjusted to limit the discharge at designated places and at designated times. At present, 106 cities in China have reopened after the implementation of the ban. Zhang pointed out that the topic of "prohibition" made us realize that legislators should attach importance to traditional culture besides other factors when making rules. If the conflict between legal rules and traditional culture is too strong, not only will the rules not be observed, but it may cause rebellious psychology and affect the seriousness of laws and regulations.

Fireworks should be set off in accordance with the law, morality and civilization, and pay special attention to safety, and shall not violate the relevant provisions of laws and regulations. In order to make our city have a more orderly festival, we should not forget to change customs and beautiful customs in the process of inheriting folk customs, so that traditional folk customs can develop healthily.