Fire crackers are a big part of the Chinese New Year celebrations. In fact if you don’t hear fire crackers, you don’t really feel like its Chinese New Year time. Sales of fire crackers are a big business during Chinese New Year season. Normally you don’t have a dedicated fire cracker shop selling fire crackers throughout the year because the demand is normally there only for Chinese New Year and for one or two more other major festivals in China. But during the Chinese New Year time, many shops will start selling fire crackers. However, when they start closing for Chinese New Year holidays, pop-up shops will start appearing on make shift tables such. The products include simple sparklers, drums of fire crackers which you roll out outside your main door and lit them up and also those that shoot into the night sky and look a small rocket launcher made up of paper and cardboard. Other than the sparklers, most of the other products are banned in Singapore and in Australia and I think many countries too. Well, the Chinese invented the firecrackers back in 200 BCE and they continue to use it till this day to celebrate the Chinese New Year. So if you are in China during the Chinese New Year time, just buy some fire crackers and have a go. Its legal in China and I have lit up various types of fire crackers many times and the experience is exhilarating.
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