Thursday, February 9, 2012

Chinese New Year Firecrackers & Fireworks: Custom or Pollution?


Chinese business owners light firecrackers to ring in the first day of opening for business in the new year, hoping it will bring them good luck.


From NetEase:

Business owners throughout the country set off firecrackers hoping for a good year

January 29th, the first day of work and 7th day of the new year following the Spring Festival long holiday, business owners and shop owners one after another lit fireworks and firecrackers when opening their doors for business in hopes of good fortune in the new year.
That day, Wuhan deployed around 20,000 sanitation workers to sweep up firecracker litter. According to the city management bureau statistics, from 8-10 in the morning, 840 tons of “fireworks for opening the door on business in the new year” were detonated.
Chinese business and store owners setting off fireworks and firecrackers on the 7th day of the Chinese New Year.
Jinan city in Shandong province, on the first day of work following the Spring Festival long holiday, many work units and companies lit fireworks in accordance with traditional customs for good luck.
Chinese people setting off fireworks for good fortune on the 7th day of the Lunar New Year.
Jinhua city in Zhejiang province, firecrackers being set off for luck in front of several businesses.
Exploding firecrackers in China during Chinese New Year celebrations.
Several work units and companies in Dalian set off firecrackers for luck on the street in front of their homes.
Long lines of firecrackers being set off by Chinese business owners on the 7th day of the Chinese New Year hoping it will bring them good luck.
January 29th on the 7th day of the new year, the first day of work following the Spring Festival long holiday, several Wuhan business and store owners one after another lite fireworks and firecrackers for an auspicious new year.
Boxes of fireworks and long strings of firecrackers in front of a Chinese company.
A Shanxi province Taiyuan business owner lights firecrackers in front of his door. Photo: CNS Wei Liang.
Smoke from firecrackers being set off on the first day of opening for business following Spring Festival.
Jinan city of Shandong province, on the first day of work after the Spring Festival long holiday, many work units and companies lit firecrackers in front of their doors in accordance with tradition for good luck.
A Chinese sanitation worker sweeps up the red husks of used firecrackers that cover the streets of China during Chinese New Year.
Dalian sanitation workers cleaning up firecracker fragments.
A Chinese sanitation worker walking amongst a sea of red firecracker litter that covers the streets of China during Chinese New Year.
Dalian sanitation workers cleaning up firecracker fragments.
Chinese women cleaning up the streets of used fireworks and firecrackers.
Shanxi Taiyuan, many business-owners set off firecrackers for good luck, while female sanitation workers sweep up firecracker litter.
A Chinese man bikes over a street covered in the red dregs of used firecrackers.
A passerby rides past the leftover fragments of firecrackers in front of a financial company on Wenhua Road in Zaozhuang city of Shandong province.
A fire burns over the litter of firecrackers.
Hubei Wuhan, burning husks of spent firecrackers.
A Chinese man with a broom tries to smother smoldering firecracker shells.
Renmin Road in Dalian’s Zhongshan district, several businesses set off firecrackers for good fortune.
A Chinese scavenger collects the cardboard boxes of used fireworks for recycling.
Zhejiang province Hangzhou, a scavenger collects the large boxes of spent fireworks.
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