Chinese folk artists perform the lion dance at a temple fair to celebrate the Lunar New Year of Dragon on January 22, 2012 in Beijing, China. Falling on January 23 this year, the Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the Fifteenth day. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images)

Children fall as they slide down on a float along a chute to cross a pool of water and foam during the “Letniy Gornoluzhnik” (Summer mountain puddle rider) festival at the Bobroviy Log Fun Park near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, August 23, 2015. The annual competition marks the end of the summer season at the Siberian ski, rest and entertainment resort. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui shrine takes with his mouth pierced with spikes takes part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand October 7, 2016. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)

A child plays the ice slide at the Ice-Snow World park in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, January 5, 2017. The theme park which used about 330,000 cubic meters of ice and snow for construction opened on Thursday. (Photo by Xinhua/Barcroft Images)

Joy Corrigan attending the “BlacKkKlansman” premiere during the 71 st Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2018 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Mahe/Reuters)

A model poses for a picture during the 20th World Bodypainting Festival 2017 on July 30, 2017 in Klagenfurt, Austria. (Photo by Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images)

It’s a classic tale of dictatorship gone wrong and the fight for freedom. Like in any good battle, there’s fire, albeit from firecrackers, but the ammunition in this one is – flour. It takes place in a Hemingway-esque Spanish village. The battle of “Enfarinats” in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival, rages on on December 28, 2012 in Ibi, Spain. Citizens of Ibi annually celebrate the festival with a fight using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups, a group of married men called “Els Enfarinats” who take the control of the village for one day pronouncing a number of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them and a group called “La Oposicio” who try to restore order. At the end of the day the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the village. The festival has been celebrated since 1981 after the town of Ibi recovered the tradition but the origins remain unknown.

Photo: A Reveller smokes during the battle of “Enfarinats”, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival. (Photo by David Ramos)

Hugo Gonzalez of Lake Worth works to put final strokes on his rendition of a Raksha demon. (Photo by Thomas Cordy/The Palm Beach Post)