The origin of the firecracker
It is knows that Firecracker comes from bamboo cracker. Since ancient times, there is saying that long time ago, a beast called “Year” appeared in the Eve of the New Year every year. In order to scared it away, people burned the bamboo joint in front of the house, the air in bamboo is heated cause cavity expansion, the bamboo cavity bursted, caused large noise, people used this to scared away of the Beast. With the invention of gunpowder, gunpowder cracker replaced the bamboo firecrackers in the past.
Firecracker have different saying on various historical periods, the name from “cracker”,”cracker pole”, “cracker rod” and now is called “”firecracker“in the hometown of fireworks in Liuyang Changsha Hunan.People still called the firecracker as cracker which the size is big, lot of gunpowder, and strong explode force.