The Shanghainese celebrate Chinese New Year with a blast, literally, with fire crackers and fireworks. A little after dusk on Chinese New Year’s eve, isolated bursts of crackers mark the beginning of a cacophony that intensifies into the night and climaxes at midnight when it feels almost like a war zone if not for the the multicolored sparkles of fireworks dancing in the night sky that linger like stardust in the eye. And that goes on well after midnight, on the 5th and 15th days of the Lunar New Year as well.
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