When were there fireworks in ancient China?

There were some fireworks in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Fireworks originated from fireworks, and fireworks originated from gunpowder. China is the hometown of gunpowder, which is the evidence of ancient civilization in China. 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 it spread from India and Arabia 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. 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.

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Fireworks and firecrackers types:

1. Firecracker: a product whose main body explodes (the main cylinder breaks or bursts) but does not lift off, producing sonic boom, flash and other effects, mainly with auditory effects.

2. Flower spraying: a product that mainly sprays flames, sparks and sounds (ringing beads) in a straight line during discharge.

3. Rotating category: products whose main body rotates but does not lift off when discharging.

4. Lift-off category: products whose main body is oriented or rotated to lift off during discharge.

5. Spitting beads: products that regularly emit colored beads, colorful flowers, sounds and other effects from the same cylinder during discharge.

6. Toys: low-altitude products with various shapes and relatively small range of motion, which produce sparks, smoke, explosion and other effects when discharged, including toy modeling, linear fragrance, friction, smoke products and so on.

7. Fireworks: products that can burst into various colors, floral patterns or other effects when projectiles and effect films are launched into the sky or water from launchers (single launchers, including special launchers).

8. Shelf fireworks: products that are set off by hanging on shelf devices. When it is set off, flames and sparks are ejected to form subtitles, patterns, waterfalls, people, landscapes and other pictures. Divided into waterfalls, subtitles, patterns and so on.

9. Combination fireworks: products consisting of two or more fireworks of the same or different types, such as small fireworks, flower spraying and bead spitting.

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