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Handmade firecrackers production technology

The making process of handmade firecrackers is as follows:

1. Preparation materials: empty candy boxes, used corks, red wool, wool needles, cardboard and pigments.

2. Make a hole in the cork. Pay attention to safety when drilling holes, and be careful not to be pricked by wool needles.

3. Take out the paint. Colour the cork red, and then draw gold circles on both ends of the cork. Stand by when it's dry.

Finally, write Happy New Year on the cardboard and stick it on the empty candy box. Now put the candy box and cork on with red wool. Such an environmentally friendly handmade firecracker is completed.

Firecracker refers to a string of small firecrackers, also known as firecrackers, firecrackers, blasting rods and so on. When there was no gunpowder and paper, the ancients burned bamboo with fire to make it burst and make a sound, so as to drive away the plague, which reflected the good wishes of the ancient people in China for Antai.

Since modern times, people in China have set off firecrackers on almost traditional festivals, weddings, celebrations, temple fairs and other occasions, especially during the Spring Festival, the use of firecrackers exceeds half of the annual consumption.

Whether it's Chinese New Year, marriage, promotion, building completion, store opening, etc. People are used to setting off firecrackers to celebrate. Even in many places, old people will set off firecrackers when they die, but not to celebrate.

Different customs in different places have different purposes of setting off firecrackers, but most of them are for celebration. This custom has a history of more than 2500 years in China.