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Is there any proof that Chinese long-lasting yearly tradition of shooting fireworks is actually a method that was started to remember how to fight the dinosaurs? (self.AskHistorians)

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This sounds looney, but there are signs that led me to this idea during my stay in China.

  • Chinese have a far more long-lasting tradition of fireworks display than any other country I know of. It is bound into their national culture. Each year they shoot fireworks to scare off the evil spirits or dragons.

  • Recreations of dinosaurs resemble the dragons that the Chinese have painted,portrayed and are trying to imitate in their yearly event. Exept for the "breathing fire" part.

  • Chinese have utterly strong cultural ties to what their ancestors have told. The real Chinese do not go against the will of his/her father. That makes it so much likely for any ancient and important part of culture to stay unchanged. Different from our "question everything" mentality.

  • Chinese were the ones to "invent" fireworks (this seems to be the general belief, I do not have any sources to provide)

  • Not only the Chinese have mythical dragons in their culture. Loch Ness monster is the most well-known. If something like this would get killed, it stays in the folklore for long. Just a little point to strengthen the idea that dinosaurs and human beings did live on earth at one point in time.

  • How is it possible that people living thousands of years ago would create dragons into their culture that so much resemble dinosaurs?

It would just make so much sense if the ancient Chinese were troubled with dinosaurs and they found a glorious method of getting rid of them, then they would incorporate it into their culture.

I would appreciate any kind of fact from known history that could support the theory.

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[–]newbiegamedev 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

How is it possible that people living thousands of years ago would create dragons into their culture that so much resemble dinosaurs?

Fossils. In case this isn't a troll. Dinosaurs had died off long before any ape came into the picture.

[–]tobymoby616Early Parthian Numismatics | Hellenistic Iranian Plateau 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, well before the Mammalian Age. So to argue that ancient Chinese custom would have involved animals that are over 65 million years extinct seems a little far fetched.

[–]CommodoreCoCoMesoamerica & Early Andes | Historical Linguistics 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

You could cherrypick or misinteepret facts all day long to supporr this idea. But the facts against it are far too strong for it to work out at all. Your assuming thar some kind of hominid coexisted with, an assumption that goes against all fossil evidences of either groups.

[–]Zither13 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

MFireworks were invented in China c.7th C., only 1400 years ago. Before then, Chinese drove off demons by banging drums and pots, blowing horns, &c. This would have to be the means of driving off dinosaurs, not those modern high-tech fireworks. The first use was not skyrockets, but firecrackers that just go bang.

Chinese dragons are not evil menaces but benificent forces associated with rain and bodies of water.

They do not resemble dinosaurs. They look like snakes with legs and mammalian features around the head. European dragons seem to be based on crocodiles gone nightmare. They drag their bellies along the ground (as in Sigfried legend) rather than walking high off the ground like dinosaurs.