As early as 1300 years ago, Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist, recorded the composition and properties of gunpowder in detail in Single Crystal.
It was not until14th century that India and * * * spread to Europe. At this point, westerners began to know that there was gunpowder.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, gunpowder developed into fireworks for entertainment.
Fireworks are also called fireworks, fireworks.
Emperor Yangdi Yang Di wrote a poem: "A tree with a thousand lights makes seven bloom." .
The "shelf fireworks" or "bonsai fireworks" in the Song Dynasty have reached a considerable scale.
During the Lantern Festival, dignitaries competed with the United States.
Shortly after the light was turned on, until it was more residual.
Xin Qiji, a poet, once wrote the sentence "Thousands of trees are in the east wind night in bloom, and the stars are like rain", which is a vivid description of it.
Fireworks, or fireworks, used to be called western fireworks.
It came back from western Europe in the Qing Dynasty.
Its development is closely related to chemical industry and metallurgical industry.
With the development of science and technology, fireworks and firecrackers have become a discipline.
Whether it's Chinese New Year holidays, marriage, school promotion, or even the completion of buildings and the opening of shops, people are used to setting off firecrackers to celebrate.
It stands for happiness, excitement and peace.
In ancient times, firecrackers were used to drive away ghosts and gods to maintain peace.
This custom has a history of more than 2000 years in China.
The Story of Jingchu Times once recorded that on the first day of the first month, when the rooster crowed for the first time, everyone got up and set off firecrackers in their own yard to drive away the evil spirits of plague.
There was no gunpowder or paper at that time, so people burned bamboo to make it burst and make a sound to drive away the plague. Although this is only superstition, it reflects the ancient people's good wishes for Antai.
Firecrackers in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "blasting poles", burn a long bamboo pole piece by piece and make a continuous popping sound.
Nanchang poet Lai Hu's poem "Early Spring": "The new calendar is only half open, and the pavilion is still bursting.
I wrote the scene of burning bamboo poles during the Spring Festival.
Later, after constant chemical experiments, alchemists found that saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal together could cause combustion and explosion, so they invented gunpowder.
Someone put gunpowder in a bamboo tube, and it rang louder, which made the ancient custom of burning bamboo fundamentally change.
By the Northern Song Dynasty, there had been fireworks wrapped in paper, and there was a distinction between single ring and double ring. It was renamed "artillery warfare" and later "firecrackers".
Firecrackers, also known as "firecrackers", "firecrackers" and "firecrackers", are a specialty of China, which originated very early.
If we trace the origin of firecrackers, we will understand the original intention of the ancients to set off firecrackers and its evolution history.
According to Nerve, in ancient times, people camped through deep mountains and lit bonfires at night, one for cooking and keeping warm, and the other for preventing wild animals from invading.
However, there is an animal in the mountains, which is not afraid of people or fire, and often steals food while people are unprepared.
In order to deal with this animal, people thought of setting off firecrackers in the fire and using the crackling sound of bamboo to drive it away.
The animal mentioned here is called "sister-in-law".
The ancients said that it can make people cold and hot, and it is ghosts that make people get cold and hot, scaring away mountains, that is, driving away evil spirits and making people lucky and safe.
In the early Tang Dynasty, plagues were everywhere. A man named Li Yi put saltpeter in a bamboo tube and lit it to make it make a louder sound and smoke. As a result, the miasma in Shan Lan was dispelled and the epidemic was stopped.
This is the earliest prototype of firecrackers.
Later, when gunpowder appeared, people filled bamboo tubes with saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal and burned them, resulting in an "explosion war".
In the Song Dynasty, people began to make "guns" (that is, firecrackers) with paper tubes and hemp sticks wrapped in gunpowder.
Regarding the evolution of firecrackers, Excellent Popular Arrangement records: "Ancient firecrackers.
They are all popular with real bamboo, so Tang poetry is also called explosive pole.
Later people roll paper for it.
It's called firecrackers.
With the passage of time, firecrackers are more and more widely used, and there are more and more varieties and colors.
Liuyang, Hunan is a famous hometown of fireworks in China, and Foshan and Dongyao in Guangdong, Yichun and Pingxiang in Jiangxi, and Wenzhou in Zhejiang are also famous fireworks producing areas. The firecrackers produced in Liuyang not only sell well in China, but also are exported to other countries and regions in the world.