Why a lot of firecrackers on the ninth day of the ninth month

September 9, for the Chinese traditional festival of Chongyang Festival is commonly known. Folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, worship God and ancestors and drink feasts to pray for life and other customary activities. This will also be celebrated with firecrackers.

The night before the Chongyang Festival, some regions will gather to celebrate the festival because of the customs of the Chongyang Festival, for example: Every year on September 9, Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County in Guangdong Province, on the square of Jinzishan, local compatriots of the Zhuang ethnic group, together with tourists, hold the traditional traditional Chongyang fire-bombing lions, send the fire god traditional folk activities, praying for peace and good luck.

See the brave lion dancers bare shoulders and hand-held torches on the field, leading the lion people pointing two rows of firecrackers, thrown to the lion dancers, the head of the cannon a shot, the scene onlookers of the Zhuang and tourists have to ignite firecrackers to the "fire lion" attack, the lion dancers to make the best of their skills, of the word step, the plum blossom step, eight step turn to turn, the action is agile and without losing the beautiful! The lion dancers made their best use of their skills. The whole scene, drums and gongs, firecrackers, lively, two hours down, the ground has been laid a thick layer of firecracker paper.

Extended information:

< p>According to the traditional custom of the Zhuang family, the fire lion is to drive away the end of the year often come out to harm mankind, "the year" of this unicorn, is a custom handed down for many years, the local people with the fire lion show to pray for the new year of wind and rain, the five grain harvest. And in the fried fire lion, the underground firecracker paper thicker, on behalf of the life of the more red-hot.

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China News Network - Lianshan, Guangdong Zhuang family members of the Chongyang Festival fire lion bombing to send the fire god to pray for peace (Figure)