Did you use firecrackers to explode cow dung during the Chinese New Year when you were a kid? ?

Join in the fun! Setting off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year is every child's favorite thing to do, and the most money spent on New Year's Eve is also on firecrackers.

But there is no point in just throwing firecrackers on the ground and listening to the sound. Many tricks have evolved from this. The child is naughty!

Let’s talk about the things I did when I was a kid setting off firecrackers. During the Chinese New Year, I saw that the canteens in the village sell most various types of firecrackers. The most popular one is Spider King, which costs 50 cents a box. I first bought 4 boxes and put them in my pocket (it was all finished in the morning) to set off firecrackers. Friing cow dung is a common thing, and what is fried is still steaming cow dung. Putting firecrackers on cow dung, one is not enough, the minimum is 2. Light it with incense and run quickly. If you run fast, nothing will happen. If you run slowly, you can imagine the consequences. After the explosion, you have to go back to see if it was big!

Not only fried cow dung, I also tried all kinds of tricks, filling beer bottles with water and throwing firecrackers in. The iron basin for feeding chickens at home was lit with firecrackers, covered with the basin, and fried to a height of 2 meters. Watch that kid go to the toilet (the toilet pit in rural areas is connected with the squatting pit) and throw firecrackers into the pit behind (I have been bombed too, it was so refreshing) don't ask why the adults are not bombed.

The one time I remember most clearly is also the only time. One year, the canteen had a new type of firecrackers (water mines) for 50 cents each. Throwing them into the water was quite powerful, and the water exploded several meters high. I was having fun when I saw my neighbor fetching water from the pond. I didn’t know what to think, so I threw the mine into a bucket at the back. The bottom of the bucket was blown up. At that time, the neighbor came to my house and matched with someone else. Buckets of money, a beating, New Year's money and firecrackers were also taken away!

Looking back on the New Year celebrations when I was a child, it was really joyful. Now that I have grown up and my conditions have improved, I can no longer find that feeling! Only memories remain!

During the Chinese New Year when I was a child, especially for those born in the 1990s who grew up in rural areas, using firecrackers to blow up cow dung was a must. I was really bold and naughty at that time. It was probably due to special rural reasons that I had such an interesting experience. I think this is also the experience of many people born in the 1990s who grew up in rural areas.

Let’s talk about firecrackers first. The firecrackers in my childhood were not as beautiful as the firecrackers we have now. Before 2005, there was an old man in our village who specialized in making firecrackers. The firecrackers were made of book paper rolls. Yes, there is a fire element inside, and the bottom of the firecracker needs to be sealed with fine soil, and the other end is tightened with a machine, and then the fuse is inserted. In fact, the previous firecrackers were very laborious and dangerous to light. Of course, there were still many "fish that slipped through the net" after each firecracker was set off.

We took more of these "fish that slipped through the net" one by one and burned paper and lit incense during the Chinese New Year. So each of us lit an incense and went to light firecrackers and put the firecrackers into glass bottles. Click it, put it in front of the cow pen, and of course put it in the cow dung.

In the past, several families in our village raised cows. They were the kind of "red cows" whose dung was very compact and not very smelly, so we children took our own shovels and shoveled the dung. With a shovel, you find an open space. At this time, small firecrackers are no longer enough, so you need to use larger firecrackers, the kind as thick as a big sow.

First, point the firecracker upwards, adjust the fuse, insert it into the cow dung, and then blow out the incense in your hand. At this time, you start to light the firecrackers cautiously, and there are three or five more behind you. Naughty guys, they were covering their ears, and one of them clicked, and immediately ran away after clicking.

Why doesn’t it sound after waiting for a while? So I went over to take a look, and I saw that it was only three to five steps away before it exploded. At this time, the cow dung exploded, and my face and body were covered with cow dung. It smelled so bad that it was hilarious!

When I was a child during the Chinese New Year, there weren’t many toys, and firecrackers were basically the standard. Parents at that time were not like parents now, and they wouldn’t let you play with this or that. Therefore, although there are few toys, they are very interesting to play with.

1. Fried cow dung

A group of friends are looking for cow dung piles everywhere, especially the fresh ones. They insert firecrackers into the middle and use spring thunder for the best effect. , a group of people dispersed in a hurry, and the cow dung was scattered around like fairies scattering flowers. It was inevitable that some slow people would get cow dung on their clothes, and their new clothes for the New Year would stink so much that they would be picked up when they got home. Although he was reprimanded, he still couldn't stop his yearning for the cow dung pile.

2. Exploding manure pits

In the past, many toilets in rural areas were outdoors, and there were manure pits behind the toilets. People always liked to throw lit firecrackers into the manure pits, and with a muffled sound, The effect can be imagined. Especially when there are people inside, they will quietly throw one away and run away to prevent others from catching them, and a burst of curses will be heard behind them.

3. Explode the box

Light the firecrackers, quickly take the plastic box, the iron box and the paper box to cover it. With a loud noise, the box will fly up to the sky and then fall down continuously. Play for several days.

4. Fish frying

When I was a child, there were many wild fish ponds in rural areas, and the fish ponds were all collectively owned, unlike now where they are all contracted. A group of friends, some big and small, went to the fish pond to fry fish with those torpedo firecrackers.

5. Gunpowder gun

It seems that you rarely see this kind of gun nowadays. It is loaded with a ring of gunpowder and fires very loudly. It also emits a bezoar-flavored smoke. That is also standard for every child.

Although life was not rich in the past and children's toys were few and simple, it was more interesting and memorable than now.

For those born in the 1970s, the passion for firecrackers during the New Year celebrations during their childhood was extremely special and was simply the whole fun.

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