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Across China, communities celebrate Yuan Xiao Jie [Lantern Festival], the end of the lunar New Year holiday, by hanging colorful lanterns on houses and lampposts, setting off fireworks, and eating tangyuan [sweet rice dumplings]. Few places, however, send the New Year off with as big a bang as Jinzhong, in eastern Shanxi Province.
Throughout the year Jinzhong is mostly known for its coal mining industry and production of certain agricultural products, but during the Lantern Festival the prefecture-level city with roughly 3.3 million inhabitants (530,000 in the urban district of Yuci) comes together for She Huo Jie ["Community Fire" Festival], a spectacular New Year sendoff that is steeped in tradition.
Over 30,000 performers from around the province paraded into Jinzhong's city center Yuci District to stage 15 distinct traditional performances for an audience of thousands as well as local community leaders and guests. Many of the traditional acts performed here have a history going back as far as 2,500 years.
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傳統(tǒng)的元宵節(jié)是農(nóng)歷春節(jié)的尾聲，過了正月十五，春節(jié)就算接近了尾聲。舉國上下都張燈結(jié)彩，放炮竹，吃元宵，歡度這春節(jié)的最后一天。山西晉中的元宵活動格外熱鬧，轟轟烈烈，歡騰聲中送春節(jié)。
晉中一直以其煤炭開采業(yè)和特色農(nóng)產(chǎn)品聞名于世。在元宵節(jié)之際，這個擁有約330萬居民（其中53萬為城鎮(zhèn)居民）的縣級城市熙熙攘攘，人們歡聚在這里共度“社火節(jié)”?！吧缁鸸?jié)”是當?shù)貍鹘y(tǒng)習俗中送別春節(jié)的別開生面的儀式。
3萬多名來自省內(nèi)各地的演員來到位于晉中市中心的榆次區(qū)，為當?shù)財?shù)以千計的觀眾、領(lǐng)導及嘉賓，獻上15個風格各異的傳統(tǒng)表演。這些傳統(tǒng)節(jié)目的歷史大多可追溯到2500年之前。
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