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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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傳統的元宵節是農歷春節的尾聲，過了正月十五，春節就算接近了尾聲。舉國上下都張燈結彩，放炮竹，吃元宵，歡度這春節的最后一天。山西晉中的元宵活動格外熱鬧，轟轟烈烈，歡騰聲中送春節。
晉中一直以其煤炭開采業和特色農產品聞名于世。在元宵節之際，這個擁有約330萬居民（其中53萬為城鎮居民）的縣級城市熙熙攘攘，人們歡聚在這里共度“社火節”。“社火節”是當地傳統習俗中送別春節的別開生面的儀式。
3萬多名來自省內各地的演員來到位于晉中市中心的榆次區，為當地數以千計的觀眾、領導及嘉賓，獻上15個風格各異的傳統表演。這些傳統節目的歷史大多可追溯到2500年之前。
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