Firecracker

As a Spring Festival Mascot, firecrackers are a necessity in Chinese New Year. It has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that when it was Chinese New Year Eve, the ancient Chinese would pile a lot of bamboo in their courtyard and set fire to it. As it got heated, the bamboo would explode with great bangs and help to drive away Monster Nian. It is a strange and terrible beast that lives at the mountainside and it only will wake up in the New Year, eats animals and even man in the plain. Later when gunpowder was invented, people started to put gunpowder into bamboo, which contributed to the strength of explosion. In the Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder rolled and wrapped in paper. So the firecrackers' basic form came into being and was widely accepted as a replace material for bamboo.