Mar 11, 2011

Firecracker

Spring Festival, people, especially young people favorite activities are firecrackers.Burn firecrackers become a very important custom, more than two thousand years of history.

Legend has it that fireworks originated in the ancient "Liao court" when people use the bamboo poles and the like it made ​​of the torch. When the bamboo is burned, sending a strong burst of crackling sound, this is the first fireworks, also known as "explosive pole. "

To the Tang Dynasty, with the invention of gunpowder, people began to use bamboo fitted the gunpowder and burn. The Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279), firecrackers use paper, is to use multi-layer cling round into a cylinder-shaped paper, interior put gunpowder,after two blocked access to drugs line.when burn, as long as light line drugs, can cause an explosion of gunpowder, loud sound.

Now, more and more varieties of firecrackers, such as small firecrackers, thunder lightning, mother mine, Shooting guns, one hundred, one thousand fireworks, firecrackers million head, as well as to changing the shape, ejected colorful flame fireworks and more.

Now people set off firecrackers not just during the Spring Festival, as long as there is a happy thing, there is almost firecrackers. And had long ago lost the original "to avoid the mountain smell of urine, evil spirits, "the purpose is to increase the warm, festive atmosphere of it.

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