Bottle rockets? Nah, let’s get something a little bigger…
Published January 29th, 2004 in China, PhotosI want to do a full Wuhan/Spring Festival round-up, but I lost the card reader for the digital camera, so I’ll have to hold off until I can find another way to transfer my photos to the laptop. In the meantime, I do have a few photos to work with, so here goes:
They invented gunpowder, so you’d better believe the Chinese know how to do fireworks right. What you see above is way cooler, and way bigger than anything you can get in the US. Sixty-one shells, each approximately 2½” in diameter, bundled together and connected by a single fuse sticking out at the base. These aren’t wussy little explosions either — you could line four or five of these up and have a better show than a lot of small towns on the Fourth of July. Kai’s dad bought this one for 300 yuan (about $36) and set it off in the front yard of the house he’s building on the outskirts of Wuhan. It did not disappoint:
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holly cow now thats one big butt bottle rocket