There is still a month to go before the Spring Festival, and as soon as the Spring Festival arrives, they have set off guns to highlight the excitement, which is like a festival.
There have been two topics that have attracted everyone's attention during the Spring Festival.
One is whether Chinese New Year's Eve should be a holiday?
The Spring Festival is a legal holiday in the mainland, and there are normally three days of statutory holidays, and then through the holiday, there will generally be about 7 days off.
But how to arrange this seven-day holiday is a headache, early release, everyone may need more time off; late on Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone may work overtime, even Chinese New Year's Eve can not go home.
According to the holiday schedule in 2024, the Spring Festival holiday time is from February 10 to February 17, a total of 8 days, this holiday time is quite long, but unfortunately, there is no holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve, which many people feel unreasonable.
After all, Chinese New Year's Eve is a day of reunion, everyone has to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, if Chinese New Year's Eve still has normal work, many people rush home after work, and it may be the second day when they get home.
However, this Spring Festival holiday is still relatively flexible, although Chinese New Year's Eve is nominally not a holiday, but the state encourages all units and institutions to make flexible arrangements according to the actual situation, and there is no holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone does not need to adjust the holiday, which virtually has an extra day of vacation.
The second is whether the Spring Festival should be fired?
In recent years, many places have introduced strict firecracker policies, and many cities are not allowed to set off fireworks during the Spring Festival, and setting off fireworks without permission may be punished with heavy fines.
After the "Gun Restriction Order" came out, many places could only set off firecrackers in specific places, and residents could not set off firecrackers on their own, so the New Year was quiet, and everyone didn't even know that the Spring Festival was coming.
Many netizens felt very uncomfortable with this unusually quiet holiday atmosphere, so everyone called for the release of the firecracker discharge policy, but some experts came out to oppose it.
And there are good reasons why these experts oppose the use of fireworks.
One is that fireworks will cause air pollution, after all, if everyone concentrates on fireworks during the Spring Festival, air pollution will definitely be more serious.
Another is that fireworks may bring fire hazards, especially in some places where the space is closed or there are flammable materials, fireworks are more likely to cause fires, and even cause life danger.
It is precisely because of two considerations that some experts feel that fireworks should be banned, and even some experts believe that fireworks are a bad Xi that must be changed.
For the reasons of these experts, many netizens find it incredible.
After all, the Spring Festival is a very important festival in China, and it is also a festival that everyone values the most.
If you have to work overtime on Chinese New Year's Eve and can't set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, then this Spring Festival is no different from usual, which will make the Spring Festival lose a lot of color.
For the opinions of these experts, even the well-known artist Huang An couldn't stand it, and he even directly posted an article to bombard.
Two days ago, Huang An posted a Weibo update, calling those experts who advocate no holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve and no cannon during the Spring Festival to come out and take two steps.
Huang An's point is simple: even the United Nations has made the Chinese New Year a United Nations holiday, which is a demonstration of China's national strength and world influence. And now that the quintessence of China is getting less and less, if some experts still have the idea of the Spring Festival and restrict everything during the New Year, then these experts should go to live in the temple, they are simply gods, and the mortal world cannot tolerate them.
And Huang An also feels that he is 62 years old, and there are still a few happy Chinese New Year to live, if Chinese New Year's Eve is not a holiday, his family, his friends will not take a holiday, and he will play a fart alone!
Huang An's remarks immediately received a positive response from the majority of netizens, and he said the voices of many netizens.
After all, the Spring Festival is a very important traditional festival, everyone attaches great importance to it, and the Spring Festival has a variety of Xi customs that have lasted for thousands of years, if now suddenly in the name of environmental protection and other artificial separation of this tradition, then the Spring Festival will become tasteless, over time the Spring Festival is not like the Spring Festival, and even the Spring Festival may be robbed by other countries, for example, in recent years, South Korea has paid great attention to the protection of the Spring Festival, and even applied for fireworks, which is a great challenge for the traditional culture of the mainland.
If we restrict everything now and think that some traditional cultures are "bad Xi" to restrict, then many traditional cultures will slowly disappear, and in a few decades or hundreds of years, some Xi customs that have been passed down for thousands of years are likely to slowly disappear, and even future generations will not know that these Xi customs exist, which is a great destruction of traditional culture.
After all, the Spring Festival is only a few days, and we should generously allow everyone to celebrate the festival in the traditional way.