WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Developed to the Song Dynasty, around the beginning of the 13th century, Liuyang fireworks began to be introduced to India by foreign envoys and merchants via the Silk Road. Fireworks were gradually introduced into Arab countries through India, into Spain, and gradually spread to European and American countries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Chinese believed these natural “firecrackers” would ward off evil spirits. Sometime during the period 600-900 AD, legend has it that a Chinese alchemist mixed potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal to produce a black, flaky powder – the first “gunpowder”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paper fireworks were used to scare evil spirits or to celebrate weddings and births and were simply thrown onto a fire, not blasted into the air. There were no added colors, so a “fireworks show” was just a series of small, noisy explosions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Either way, a legendary person invented gunpowder in China about two millennia ago. All it took from there was a mashup of the bamboo and gunpowder “technologies” to create the first fireworks around 1, 000 A.D.: Li Tan, a Chinese monk, stuffed bamboo with a saltpeter-based gunpowder and launched it into a fire.

Detailed explanation-5: -The earliest documentation of fireworks dates back to 7th century China (time of the Tang Dynasty), where they were invented. The fireworks were used to accompany many festivities. Chinese people originally believed that the fireworks could expel evil spirits and bring about luck and happiness.

Detailed explanation-6: -By 900 AD, during the Tang Dynasty, Chinese alchemists were mixing together saltpeter (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur, which was an early form of gunpowder. They stuffed it into hollowed-out bamboo sticks, then roasted those to produce a loud blast.