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The history of fireworks and firecrackers

Speaking of the history of fireworks and firecrackers, we have to mention the important part of fireworks - fire yao. So how did fire yao be formed?

Fire yao, also known as black fire yao or brown fire yao, was accidentally prepared by ancient people when they were seeking the recipe for "Eternal Life Pill". There are many beautiful legends among the people about the Ming Dynasty of fireworks and firecrackers. Among them, the most widely circulated is the magical legend about Li Ting, the "firecracker ancestor".

There are many legends about the Ming Dynasty of fireworks. Among them, the story of Li Ting, the "firecracker ancestor", is the most widely circulated. "History of Tang Dynasty" records: Li Ting, a native of Shangli Mashishi, Yuanzhou Prefecture, West Road, Jiangnan. He was born on April 18th in the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty (621 AD). Emperor Dazong of Tang Li Shimin was entangled by mountain ghosts. After a long period of treatment, he ordered a nationwide medical treatment. Li Ting, a 24-year-old hunter, responded to the imperial edict and announced the list. He used the principle of using earth guns to carry out hunting and used bamboo tubes to load the nitrous oxide.

He drove out the evil spirit of the mountain mandrill and restored the emperor's dragon body, so he appointed Li Qi as the ancestor of firecrackers. The people of Shangli have always worshipped Li Qi. As early as the third year of Hongwu (137o AD), the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty (137o AD), the "Divine Pose of the ancestor of firecrackers Li Qi" was established in the Yousheng Temple in the Shangli South Street, which was built in the ninth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (354 AD). Every April 18th, people engaged in the firecrackers came here to mourn the ancestors and continued to this day.

However, the history of fireworks was earlier than that of firecrackers. As early as the Sui Dynasty, the poems of fireworks had been recited for a long time. "The tree of lamps shines thousands of lights, and the flower flames bloom. The moon shadow condenses the flowing water, and the wind contains the plum blossoms at night." Emperor Yang of Sui said that the lights on the 15th day of the first lunar month rose to the South Tower. When writing about flowers, the emotions are full of flowers, and the thoughts are overflowing with the lamps.
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