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Rockets soaring up explode far in the sky, revealing bizarre balls, smoothly descending, shimmering in different colors, leaving twinkling lights or golden rain in the sky. Fireworks are one of the favorite folk spectacles.
When the sounds of the first volleys are heard, everyone looks up at the sky, trying to understand where it is being launched from, and run across the street to get a better view.
History of fireworks
In ancient China, salutes performed a useful function - they drove away evil spirits. The first fireworks appeared there 2000 years ago. Light fire rituals were present in Japanese, Indian culture, they were paid tribute in Greece and Ancient Rome.
But it was the Chinese who succeeded in the invention of gunpowder, the study of its properties and the ability to obtain the desired results, maintaining their leadership in this area for many centuries.
With the beginning of the use of gunpowder for military purposes, the art of making salutes also developed.
Salutes in Russia were a matter of national importance
In Russia, salutes appeared in the 14th century under Ivan the Terrible.
Funny lights, crackers were actively used at festivities andcourt holidays.
And during the reign of Peter the Great, salutes became obligatory, as he issued a special decree that nothing should be celebrated without them!
Their development has become a science pursued by scientists such as Mikhailo Lomonosov.
Under Catherine the Second, the production of fiery performances reached grandiose proportions. Contemporaries wrote that they had never seen anything like it in Europe.
From the revolution to the present day
After the revolution, salutes are entirely a state event. Only pyrotechnicians were engaged in them, they were rarely produced.
But during the Patriotic War, since 1943, fireworks began to celebrate the liberation of cities.
And the festive fireworks on Victory Day has become a patriotic tradition that only develops over time.
Traditional volleys by May 9 gathered thousands of people on the streets who were glad that they heard peaceful shots, and the light of festive lights, not explosions, reflected on their faces.
Salutes are the joy of the soul and the culmination of any holiday
Now the fireworks industry provides fantastic opportunities to launch all kinds of fireworks on your own. Due to the huge demand, new varieties of fireworks are being released every day.
For example, rockets taking off with noise and roar can make a whistle, and after opening, fading lights are accompanied by crackling sounds for a long time.
Specific programs are selected for various holidays, for example, for a wedding, birthday. Various volleysdraw whole pictures and inscriptions in the sky.
It's getting a little noisy though
Fireworks in the city are a common occurrence. In addition to public holidays, they end with festivities in parks, weddings, parties, programs in hotels and restaurants. Without them, they can no longer do the average corporate party, barbecue in the country. But who would refuse such beauty if there are funds to purchase pyrotechnics!
But sometimes it seems that there are too many salutes, especially when volleys are fired from the balcony of neighbors or a drunken company in the yard.
The reason for the love of fireworks is their extraordinary beauty, conviviality, and now accessibility.
On New Year's Eve, it has become a tradition after the chiming clock to go out into the streets and shoot their stocks of missiles. For an hour, a festive cannonade sounds, coloring the sky with fantastic lights, gradually enveloping the streets in clouds of descending smoke.
The best fireworks in the world
Organizing a grandiose salute is an expensive pleasure. On New Year's Eve, many cities of the world enter into an unspoken competition: whose will be better, longer, more beautiful. Arab capitals do not waste time on trifles and immediately set the goal of getting into the Guinness book.
The 77,000 volleys fired in Kuwait in 2012 went down in history, but Dubai responded with 450,000 volleys over a 100 km area. The best fireworks can be seen at special festivals, which are held, for example, in Montreal, in the Philippines. They gather millions of viewers.
Many cities are preparingspecial scenarios of New Year's fireworks, which are kept in great secrecy.
Despite the variety of grandiose shows, the fireworks dearest to the heart are those associated with special experiences and holidays.
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