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How is Shanxi’s New Year’s Eve celebrated?

Wanghuo is made of charcoal blocks to form a tower-like thing. The whole is round, thick at the bottom and thin at the top. The body is hollow, with a roof on the top and a door opening on the bottom.

Huairen is full of fire, commonly known as the fire dragon.

Every Spring Festival, New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival, large pieces of coal are built into a tower shape in front of the courtyard of every household, which is called a prosperous fire. It is for good luck and wishes for prosperity throughout the year.

Put firewood inside and put a big red note on the outside with the words "prosperous and prosperous" and other words.

Just wait until midnight, when the firecrackers go off, the fire will be lit.

After being lit, flames spurt out from numerous small holes, resembling a floating figure, which is both cold-proof and spectacular.

Adults and children gathered in a circle, some played games, and some set off firecrackers. Men, women, and children came to warm themselves by the fire in order to "boost the sky."

Children's performance: Children can also walk around the streets to watch and comment on the size of the fire. Whose fire is bigger and more prosperous, and whose fire is more prosperous.

As stated in the "Datong County Chronicle" of the Qing Dynasty: "On New Year's Day, every family digs charcoal and cuts firewood and raises the fortress, which looks like a small floating picture. When it is released in time, it is called a prosperous fire." Nowadays, the prosperous fire not only rises during festivals, but also even during festivals.

It is also involved in weddings, funerals or major festivals. They all express the local people's inner hopes and blessings for the future.

The custom of boosting fire is a summary of more than a thousand years of Shehuo cultural practice in Huairen area, even Shuozhou and central and southern Inner Mongolia. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of craftsmen of past generations. It is a relic of the combination of ancient gift-sharing culture and Shehuo art. It provides a basis for research. my country's traditional folk art provides conclusive evidence, which is rare in traditional national culture.

It is the concrete embodiment of frontier fortress culture and Yellow River culture.