Spring Festival

Spring Festival wouldn’t be Spring Festival without fireworks any less than positing Christmas without presents, or Halloween without candy. But come the Lunar New Year, our fair city descends into cacophonous chaos when the fireworks start flying.

Of course I’m all for free-wheeling festivities, but the older I get, the thinner my threshold becomes for things that go bang in the night (and that especially applies to our amorous upstairs neighbors).

This is why I fully support this piece of news concerning the ban of fireworks around Olympic venues. The city, it would seem, is smarting from the fire that flared up in the Olympic ping pong venue at the Peking University Gymnasium this past July, and have banned fireworks sellers from setting up shop within 100 meters of Beijing’s 31 Olympic venues. 

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