Even late at night, residents can be kept awake by a nearby restaurant's loud pet goose, supermarket or restaurants' ventilation fans and freezers, temples or businesses settingofffirecrackers to seek divine protection at ungodly but auspicious hours.
Even those settingoff the firecrackers would dart out into the road, light the fuse and then rush back into a doorway to take shelter from the downpour.
On Saturday night, the government counted a total of 839 fires caused by revellers settingoff fireworks and firecrackers across the country on Lunar New Year's Eve.
Beijing has launched a firework safety index during the upcoming Chinese New Year holidays that advises against settingoff fireworks and firecrackers in poor weather conditions, China Daily reports.