Over the years, we always sigh that the current New Year's flavor is not as good as a year, more and more faint, how can we not find our childhood taste, so how to have the New Year's flavor in the end?
Should fireworks be set off or not? This is a battle between environmental protection and traditional culture.
In 1998, Zhang Xuewu, a deputy to the National People's Congress, proposed that fireworks should be banned nationwide, and the reason why this proposal was made at that time was during the period of environmental exploration, and all projects could be included in the scope of environmental protection discussions. In addition, fireworks and firecrackers are easy to cause disasters, especially in urban areas, buildings are getting higher and higher, the population is relatively dense, and the discharge of high-altitude fireworks and firecrackers is very easy to cause fires, which directly endanger public safety and the safety of life and property, and the potential safety hazards are also greater, so it is necessary to prohibit fireworks and firecrackers nationwide.
Actually, this proposal did not pass at the time! However, this proposal has attracted enough attention from the relevant departments of the state to ban fireworks, and relevant policies have been introduced since then.
Two interesting things!
First, although there is an explicit ban on fireworks, fireworks have never stopped in recent years, but have been fiercely opposed!
The second is more interesting. In 2020, I don't know because of too much pressure or for other reasons, Zhang Xuewu suddenly changed his mind about the national ban on fireworks and firecrackers, he said that the national ban on fireworks really can't be one-size-fits-all, because China is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of fireworks and firecrackers, fireworks and firecrackers production and consumption account for 90% of the world's total, and exports account for 80% of the world's total, taking 2017 as an example, when the annual output value reached 67 billion yuan, and its first output was close to 10 billion yuan. At the same time, he also mentioned that the ban on fireworks has made the inheritance of fireworks and fireworks folk culture face unprecedented challenges, and it is imperative to support the scientific and sustainable development of the fireworks and fireworks industry in the new era.
That is to say, because of economic reasons, you can develop the fireworks industry! In the face of the economy, environmental protection suddenly becomes worthless!
So should fireworks be banned?
First of all, a total ban on fireworks is certainly impossible!
Fireworks and firecrackers, as a thousand-year-old traditional culture, have been integrated into many activities in our lives, marriage, funerals, commemorations, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and various celebrations are inseparable, and it is impossible to completely ban them in our lives or from the inheritance of folk culture!
Secondly, the culture of fireworks and firecrackers has been inherited for thousands of years and is one of our Chinese civilizations. This culture has penetrated into the deepest depths of our minds, and completely banning it is no less than scraping bones to heal wounds!
Without fireworks, not only is our traditional New Year's flavor gone, this is the disappearance of civilization, and future generations can no longer understand many of our traditional culture. For example, we are familiar with "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" Qin Qiong, Wang Bodang watched fireworks in Tokyo to kill Yuwen Zhihe, and Song Jiang met Li Shishi in "Water Margin", all of which have descriptions of lantern festival fireworks, especially the Shangyuan Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty. How can we understand this culture if we don't have fireworks in our lives?! Do you look alike?!
Thirdly, fireworks and firecrackers are mainly concentrated in the Spring Festival, which is short and has limited damage to the environment. The potential safety hazards that endanger public safety and the safety of life and property can be reduced to a minimum through strict management. This is like a car, its exhaust is not much more polluted than fireworks, is it completely banned?! This is obviously not possible, but through the continuous improvement of environmental management, so as to reduce the pollution of the environment, this is the right way of thinking. In other words, starting from the production environment of fireworks and firecrackers, the risk of pollution is reduced as much as possible.
Fourth, fireworks and firecrackers, as a traditional industry in China, account for more than 90% of the world's share, and with the global popularity of Chinese culture, fireworks and firecrackers celebrations will be more and more, and the prospects of this industry are unlimited!
Therefore, it is best to take effective management instead of blindly banning fireworks! We can't afford to lose the traditions of our ancestors!
As the wisdom of the ancients, fireworks not only have unique visual and auditory effects, but also add a New Year's flavor to the New Year and increase the festive effect! Moreover, it mobilizes people's positive emotions, makes the spirit completely relaxed, and gives new hope and festive meaning to the new year, and brings people the original motivation from the heart, so as to have a positive effect on the people's spiritual life and the promotion of the country's economy.
In addition to fireworks, our New Year's flavor can be found? That is, traditional food, activities, now our life is becoming more and more simple, many delicacies can only be eaten in the Spring Festival, but also can experience the traditional taste; In addition to the phenomenon of various traditional activities gradually reviving by the phenomenon, such as:Foshan lion dance, Chaozhou Ying song and dance, Heyuan chasing the dragonand other large-scale activities, which have become Internet celebrity activities of the famous party, and then it will be a scene of thousands of empty alleys.
Heyuan Shangguan chasing dragonsHowever, we have also seen that many traditional folk cultures have disappeared or are disappearing, such as gong and drum classes, and many have become the only remaining intangible cultural heritage, etc., our traditional culture is rapidly disappearing under various impacts, and it is urgent to preserve and circulate it, so that more people can understand our traditional culture and carry it forward.
This year's fireworks continue, to find our traditional New Year's flavor and childhood flavor!