New Year Fireworks History

On new year s eve fireworks manufacturers the world over will finally be able to relax after their biggest sale of the year.

New year fireworks history. Fireworks are a popular tradition. In the first minutes after midnight people toast with champagne wish each other a happy new year fortune and health and go outside for the fireworks. In the 1890s rampant detonation of fireworks particularly by unskilled ruffians drove concerned citizens to form the society for the suppression of unnecessary noise which lobbied for.

But this day has been a fireworks staple for a surprisingly long time although the fireworks themselves have changed quite a bit. Fireworks as everyone knows were invented in ancient china. This serendipitous invention of gunpowder appears to have occurred about 2000 years ago with exploding firecrackers produced later during the song dynasty 960 1279 by a chinese monk named li tian who lived near the city of liu yang in hunan province.

These firecrackers were bamboo shoots filled with gunpowder. A river of fire was planned to accompany the fireworks display but failed to make an impact. The details of their actual origin are lost to history but they were probably developed as a way to keep mountain men and spirits at bay using loud bangs.

People generally gather with friends at parties in pubs clubs in the streets or city squares to eat drink and celebrate the new year.