Rockets soaring upward explode far in the sky, opening with bizarre balls, smoothly descend, shimmering in different colors, leaving flickering lights in the sky or golden rain. Salutes are one of the favorite folk shows.
When the sounds of the first volleys are heard, everyone gazes up at the sky, trying to understand where it is being launched from, they cross over to the other side of the street so that it can be better seen.
The history of salutes
In ancient China, salutes performed a useful function - driving away evil spirits. The first fireworks appeared there 2,000 years ago. Light fiery rituals existed in Japanese and Indian culture; tributes were paid to them in Greece and Ancient Rome.
But the Chinese succeeded in the invention of gunpowder, the study of its properties and the ability to obtain desired results, while maintaining their leadership in this area for many centuries.
With the beginning of the use of gunpowder for military purposes, the art of making fireworks developed.
Salutes in Russia were a matter of national importance
In Russia, fireworks appeared in the 14th century under John the Terrible.
Funny lights, crackers were actively used at festivities and court holidays.
And during the reign of Peter the Great, fireworks became mandatory, since he issued a special decree so that nothing would be celebrated without them!
Their development has become a science that scientists such as Mikhailo Lomonosov were engaged in.
Under Catherine the Second, the setting of fiery actions reached enormous proportions. Contemporaries wrote that they had not seen anything like it in Europe.
From revolution to the present day
After the revolution, fireworks are a completely state event. Only pyrotechnics specialists were engaged in them, they were rarely produced.
But during the Patriotic War, from 1943, salutes began to mark the liberation of cities.
And the fireworks on Victory Day has become a patriotic tradition, which is only developing over time.
By May 9, traditional volleys gathered in the streets of thousands of people 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 pyrotechnic industry provides fantastic opportunities to launch all kinds of fireworks on their own. Due to the huge demand, new varieties of fireworks appear every day.
For example, rockets taking off with a roar and a roar can make a whistle, and after opening, the dying lights will be accompanied by crackling sounds for a long time.
For various holidays, certain programs are selected, for example, for a wedding, birthday. Various volleys draw entire paintings and inscriptions on the sky.
However getting noisy
Salute in the city is a common occurrence. In addition to public holidays, they end folk festivals 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 will refuse such beauty if there are funds for the acquisition of pyrotechnics!
But sometimes it seems that there are too many salutes, especially when volleys are fired from the balcony of neighbors or by a drunken company in the yard.
The reason for the love of fireworks is their extraordinary beauty, festivity, and now accessibility.
On New Year's Eve, it became a tradition after the chiming clock to take to the streets and shoot their missile stocks. For an hour, a festive cannonade sounds, coloring the sky with fantastic lights, gradually enveloping the streets with clubs of descending smoke.
The best fireworks in the world
To organize a grandiose salute is an expensive pleasure. On New Year's Eve, many cities of the world enter into a tacit competition: whose will be better, longer, more beautiful. Arab capitals do not trifle and immediately set a goal to get into the Guinness book.
The history includes 77,000 volleys made in Kuwait in 2012, but Dubai responded with dignity by launching 450,000 volleys in an area 100 km long. The best salutes can be seen at special festivals, which are held, for example, in Montreal, in the Philippines. They gather millions of viewers.
In many cities, special scenarios of New Year's fireworks are being prepared, which are kept in great secrecy.
Despite a variety of grandiose shows, the most expensive fireworks to the heart are those associated with special experiences and holidays.