The sound of firecrackers is a tradition for the New Year. This year, Hebei and other places but a strict ban on fireworks, but still can not stop the sound of firecrackers, so the police in many places were forced to give up leave to arrest people everywhere. Only Shijiazhuang a place from New Year’s Eve to the first day of the new year, there are more than four hundred people due to fireworks were dealt with, more than 100 people were detained.
The police are forced to give up their vacation to arrest people. (Video screenshot)
Since New Year’s Eve on the mainland, a number of videos have surfaced online showing police in Hebei and other places busy arresting people in various villages and towns, and some even running to the fields to catch firecrackers.
The video shows that on the evening of New Year’s Eve, some villagers in Xingtai Nangong City ran to the fields to set off firecrackers to celebrate the New Year. But the police heard the sound and came roaring in their police cars to take people away, and the villagers scattered and fled. There were also cases of police entering households to arrest people. There are also videos showing a citizen preparing to set off firecrackers in the wild and being detained for 15 days and fined 30,000.
There is a video showing a gathering of public security officers outside a police station in Hebei, with the leader ordering 24-hour patrols to prevent firecrackers from being set off and to detain anyone found setting off firecrackers.
According to the official media, from 00:00 on February 11 to 16:00 on February 12, Shijiazhuang City investigated and dealt with 368 cases of “illegal fireworks” and 417 suspects. Among them, administrative detention of 158 people, 143 people fined.
Among them, Shijiazhuang Zhao County on New Year’s Eve alone, 55 people were treated for setting off fireworks; 12 people were arrested in Luancheng District; and two people were detained in Dingzhou for setting off fireworks.
The land media reported that in addition to Hebei, fireworks are also banned in Beijing within the fifth ring, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shenyang, Nanjing, Henan Xinyang, Hainan Wanning and many other places. Among them, 14 people were punished in Wanning, Hainan, and 10 people were arrested or fined for setting off fireworks in Jizhou, Tianjin.
Some places even if not banned, but also made restrictions on the discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, such as to designated areas to focus on fireworks and firecrackers.
Since ancient times, fireworks have been an important element of the mainland’s yellow calendar New Year, and the sound of firecrackers bursting at zero o’clock on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people can really feel a sense of the atmosphere of the old and welcome the new. But in recent years, many provinces on the mainland to “air pollution”, “noise pollution” and “safety issues” and other reasons have issued new regulations to ban fireworks during the New Year, sparking a lot of Controversy.
Some netizens lamented the lack of firecrackers without the taste of New Year: “When firecrackers are also banned, the taste of New Year has almost disappeared, there is no sound explosion, the more you grow up, the more boring!” “I can’t even feel it myself, and I can’t make my kids feel the atmosphere of the New Year!” “Now the New Year is really becoming less and less interesting, completely lost the ancestral heritage.”
“Do not let the firecrackers really a little taste of the New Year is not, last New Year’s Eve Home I almost died of anger. The air pollution, noise pollution, but also not in the New Year’s two days, so many cities in the world, New Year’s Day, not all the fireworks?
Netizens also questioned the authorities’ rationale for banning firecrackers: “Compared to solving the problem of environmental pollution caused by cars and factories, a two-day ban on fireworks is a drop in the bucket for the environmental cause.” “It’s been thousands of years since they were set off, and there’s been air pollution for just the last few years, coincidentally!” “Noise pollution would seem more far-fetched. What is the purpose of firecrackers for the New Year? To the ‘sound’, as for the sound is not noise is a matter of opinion. Most people feel that the sound is very festive atmosphere.” “A one-size-fits-all policy, the city leaders’ heads are kicked by a donkey?”
Some other netizens said that despite the local ban, the sound of firecrackers is still around. “Nanjing is not a ban on fireworks? The sound of firecrackers has not stopped since the end of the meal.” “Listening to the rumbling sound of cannons, I wondered, a ban on fireworks in the city are not selling fireworks, everyone’s firecrackers fireworks from where to come!”
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