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World Largest Fireworks in Japan: Yonshakudama

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Japan is the hometown of Yonshakudama the largest fireworks in the world, each
of the shells weighs 930 pounds, and it can climb up to the height of 2700
feet (823 meters), and when it explods, the fireworks will become a 2400-feet
-diameter fireball and went off in a cascade of colour.

Fireworks is very popular in Japan, Big fireworks display was held every year
throughout the country, it is the signature summer event in Japan, fireworks
show was held nearly every weekend during July and August, hundreds of
thousands of people crowded along the river side, the tradition first begins
in 1733, when the country just suffered famine and cholera, people set off
fireworks to mourm the victims and dispel the darkness, fireworks also became
an important theme in the art of Japanese Yamato-e.

花火という、火薬が诘まった玉を打ち上げる。7月后半から8月半ばまでに多く催される
。さほど広くはない境内に,いろいろな屋台が所狭しと出店する。「たこやき」「やき
とり」「かき氷」等の饮食物,「金鱼すくい」「射的」「たからつり」等のゲーム,ザ
ッと数えて30店近く最近の子ども达は,外であまり游ばなくなったが,夏祭りは别物の
ようだ。祭はっぴや浴衣を着て,嬉しそうに屋台を巡る子ども达,亲と手をつなぎなが
らはしゃぐ幼子达。