Maybe It's The Most Terrible fireworks in the World

Tainan - Not wearing ordinary clothes, participants fireworks festival in Taiwan must wear closed. Because if not, they can burn.

It is Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival. Held every year in Tainan, Taiwan. Visiting in CNN, the festival is held every day 14 and 15 in the Chinese New Year. This year, means the festival will be held on January 21 and February 22

Unlike most festival fireworks that explode in the air, this one is not far from the crowd swelled. Because as the name suggests, fireworks explode here as well as bees. Burned and twisted among the festival goers.

Visitors and participants of the festival could not sloppily dressed. Most of them wear thick clothes, complete with gloves. There are some who wear fire retardant clothing. As well, many of the participants were wearing helmets cover the entire face.

There is the origin of why the festival is so terrible. At the end of the 19th century, the region hit by a cholera outbreak Tainan. Yanshui Beehive was held to ward off evil spirits that are thought to bring the outbreak.

In fact, it is the plague disappeared after the fireworks festival this. But what is missing is the sulfur of the many fireworks, and also the sound of deafening fireworks which makes mice carrying cholera eventually go of fear.

From there, the festival continued and considered to be important to smooth matters over the entire year. Fireworks are embedded in the form of a pole or something. In one pole there can be thousands of fireworks will explode.

Fireworks is regarded as an offering to the god Guan Gong. Despite spending enough money, but the public does not matter at all to give this offering.

The festival attracts many tourists. If you are too curious, can visit the Temple of Wu Miao, Tainan, Taiwan. Do not forget to wear body armor

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