Participants, on February 26, at the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival—aka, “The World’s Most Dangerous Fireworks Festival.” The fest is an annual tradition held on the 15th day after the beginning of the Lunar New Year for over 130 years. According to Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau, the “beehive fireworks” festival started in 1885 as a request to the gods to spare the area from a cholera outbreak that was making its way through the villages.
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