{"id":6517,"date":"2019-11-20T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/firecrackers\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:25:10","slug":"firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Firecrackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Firecrackers are a special product of China. They are also called &quot;<span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black\">bursting weapons&quot;<\/span>  and &quot;cannon weapons&quot; etc. Exploding firecrackers is an im<em><\/em>portant custom  during the Spring Festival, dating back over 2,000 years. Firecrackers  were originally used to drive away poiso<em><\/em>nous mists or curb pestilence.  Later, with the appearance of gunpowder, niter, sulphur and charcoal etc  were filled into the firecracker bamboo pipe for explosion. Thus,  &quot;bursting weapons&quot; were produced. As the blasting sounds are perfect for  creating joyous atmosphere, exploding firecrackers has become a  recreatio<em><\/em>nal activity with natio<em><\/em>nal characteristics. Nowadays, apart  from letting off firecrackers during the Spring Festival to welcome the  New Year, people also like to explode them for celebrations on weddings,  foundation-laying ceremo<em><\/em>nies and grand openings etc.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2595123557\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firecrackers are a special product of China. They are also called &quot;bursting weapons&quot; and &quot;cannon weapons&quot; etc. Exploding firecrackers is<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals"],"views":302,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}