鹽水蜂炮 Beehive Firework Festival day 1 - 第1天 - Yan Shui Feng Pao

The most exciting and dangerous firework festival in the world.
Yan Shui Feng Pao 鹽水蜂炮 (firework festival) takes place on the 15th day of the Chinese 1st month and coincides with Lantern Festival. The tradition began in the 1870's when there was a cholera outbreak in the town. Many people had died and many had prayed to the temple deities for a cure. One night in a dream, the deity Guan Gong visited a man in a dream and told him to parade his statue around the town and throw firecrackers at the statue and he would cure the town of the disease. This may relate to an ancient folk belief that plagues were caused by malevolent spirits, and that these spirits were killed by thunder magic and firecrackers mimic the sound of thunder.
The statue was paraded around the town, and soon after the disease was no longer found in the area. To prevent its return, every year the tradition has been repeated.

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