how was fireworks used in ancient china
It is believed that the first Ancient Chinese fire works were made in Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Fireworks in Ancient China were originally used for shows, christenings and special funeral ceremonies.
Continued from page 2. Developed in the second-century BC, by the ancient Chinese, fireworks are the oldest form of rockets and the most simplistic. Originally fireworks had religious purposes but were later adapted for military use during the middle ages in the form of flaming arrows.. During the tenth and thirteenth centuries the Mongols and the Arabs brought the major component of these early rockets to the West: gunpowder.