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Just added to Christmas list: Earplugs

shanghaifireworksmap.jpgExplosive news from the Shanghai Daily:

Residents are only allowed to light fireworks from 8pm to 6am on January 28 through February 2 during the Spring Festival, the Shanghai Fire Control Bureau announced yesterday.

The bureau also banned setting off fireworks on Nanjing Road, Huaihai Road and at Yuyuan Garden.

Only? Only from 8 pm to 6 am? Because what else would people possibly be trying to do during those hours. Anyway, we're not going to try to change the way the Chinese celebrate the biggest holiday of the year -- hence the earplugs ... and maybe a trip to Thailand.

There's also a hotline -- 6232-2110 -- to report the use of illegal fireworks. You get 20 yuan for every box of illegal fireworks seized. No, we're not sure how to tell whether fireworks are illegal or not. And no, the story doesn't mention if the hotline can be used to report people setting of fireworks outside the allotted hours.

You can download a map that shows what parts of the city have supposedly banned fireworks during Spring Festival. This makes Shanghaiist wonder, what are firecracker/fireworks restrictions in the city when it isn't Spring Festival? Because there are some going off outside our window right now.

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By Dan Washburn in , on December 2, 2005 12:39 PM

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  • Pirx

    Fun? No! Industrial, hard work burn-out/show-off of tons and tons of firecrackers, by guys whose forefathers certainly were not anywhere near when the gunpowder was invented.



    I really hate it when my son comes crying to me in the middle of the night, just because some over ambitious clobberhead had to let off crackers in the tightest dead end in our French Concession compound, right in front of my sons window, as happened last Chinese New Year.

  • Dan

    Hold on. Midnight fireworks I have nothing wrong with -- few things cooler than sitting on a rooftop for that spectacle. It's the 5 a.m. ones that kind of bother me.



    That is fireworks, though.



    Firecrackers, at any time of day, on any day, annoy me. Sorry.



    But I know many people like them. Hence, earplugs.

  • Alec

    Are you taking a swipe at Chinese culture? OK boys, unleash the hounds! (just don't eat them, please)

  • Stephen

    With all the things worthy of complaining/being sarcastic about here, why would you about one of the coolest things - the entire city 'blowing up' at midnite on CNY eve? Most of modern Chinese culture seems to repress fun so I'm happy when everyone finally lets loose for a night - it's always the best night of the year.

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