2, firecrackers for China's specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonball", "firecrackers". Its origins are very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years.
3, now we generally think that firecrackers can create a festive atmosphere, is a holiday entertainment, it can bring joy and good fortune. However, if we trace the origins of firecrackers, we will understand the ancient people burning firecrackers and the history of its derivation.
4, "Jing Chu chronicle": "the first day of the first month, the rooster crows, first in front of the court firecrackers to avoid the evil spirits of the mountain shame." This record shows that the firecrackers in ancient times is a plague-exorcising audio tools, which makes the custom of burning firecrackers from the beginning with a certain superstitious color. In fact, this is entirely due to the misunderstanding of the ancients.
5, according to the "Divine Scriptures" said that in ancient times, people traveled through the mountains, camping, the night to point the campfire, one for cooking and warmth, and the second to prevent wild animals. However, there is an animal in the mountains that is not afraid of people or fire, and often steals food while people are not prepared.
6, people in order to deal with this animal, remembered in the fire firecrackers, with the cracking sound of bamboo to make it far away from the way. The animal mentioned here is called "mountain bashfulness". The ancients said that it can make people hot and cold, is to make people get hot and cold disease of the ghost, scared away the mountain shame, that is, expel the plague, can be lucky and safe.
7, to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the plague, a man called Li Tian, nitrate in a bamboo tube, lit so that it makes a bigger sound and more intense smoke, the results dispersed the mountain miasma, to stop the epidemic. This is the earliest form of nitrate firecrackers.
8, later gunpowder, people will be saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, etc., filled with bamboo tube burning, resulting in "firecrackers". To the Song Dynasty, the folk began to commonly use paper tubes and hemp stems wrapped in gunpowder woven into strings made of "braided cannon" (i.e., firecrackers).
9, on the evolution of firecrackers, "popular choreography excellent" recorded: "Ancient firecrackers. All with real bamboo fire, so the Tang poetry also known as bursting rod. Later people rolled paper for it. Called "firecrackers".
10, with the passage of time, the application of firecrackers more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous. Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang and Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and other places is China's famous "hometown of firecrackers", the production of firecrackers not only sells well across the country, but also exported to the rest of the world and regions.
11, firecrackers have become a recreational activities with national characteristics. People in addition to the old and new in the Spring Festival firecrackers, every major festivals and celebrations, such as the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and marriage, building, opening, etc., but also to set off firecrackers to show their congratulations.