The old days were removed from firecrackers. With the incessant firecrackers, we spent the Year of the Rooster. Similarly, once again, we are faced with a heated debate about whether to set off firecrackers-
■ It's all caused by firecrackers
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 this 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.
Besides the firecrackers themselves hurting people, things disturbed by firecrackers are everywhere. Mr. Yan, who lives in Daxing, Beijing, complained that after the firecrackers sounded, the alarm of the car parked in the community also sounded. On New Year's Eve, the alarm of a Jetta car downstairs rang for half an hour, and neither the old man nor the children at home had a good rest.
There are many accidents caused by firecrackers. On the evening of February 12, 1 1: 23, a flight at Wenzhou Yongqiang Airport hovered in the air for nearly 20 minutes because of fireworks interference before landing.
It is difficult for animals to find a quiet place when firecrackers sound. During the Spring Festival, four white tigers and/kloc-0 African lions were born in Shanghai Wildlife Park. However, these newborn animals and the "animal mother" locked in the moon fell ill because of the holiday firecrackers. They are panicked and anxious, and their mothers can't feed tigers and lions normally.
While citizens are addicted to filming, the cleaning workload of sanitation workers has greatly increased. On average, sanitation workers in Harbin pull more than 60 cars of firecrackers every day, weighing about 30 tons, and only 80 cars are pulled on New Year's Day.
■ No firecrackers lack the 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.
"When I was a child, I heard firecrackers ringing in the New Year, and everyone went to listen and scrambled to grab it. I think this is the New Year, and it has an annual flavor. " Xiong returned to Zhengzhou to visit relatives after studying in Germany, and he was particularly nostalgic for the past. She said that every New Year's Day in Germany, the local government will set off fireworks and firecrackers in an organized way. Many German fireworks are made in China.
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.
Since the promulgation of the "Prohibition of Alcohol", it has been widely criticized by all walks of life. Some scholars believe that "banning fireworks in the Spring Festival is like not having a Christmas tree at Christmas". Some citizens simply set off fireworks and firecrackers in violation of the ban, playing hide-and-seek with law enforcement officers, and the city where firecrackers are banned is deadlocked. It can be seen that a large number of people are deployed in China every year to prohibit release. Unfortunately, firecrackers are still popping up every year during the Spring Festival, resulting in the embarrassing situation that "the administrative organs can't help but ban and break the law". On New Year's Eve, firecrackers rang in some suburbs of Beijing until dawn.
■ Is the restriction effective?
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.