Li Ti'ien
Li Ti'ien East AsiaThe first known user of the fire-cracker against demons. The success of Li T'ien in the eleventh century is supposed to have led to the widespread use of fireworks. In fact gunpowder, invented a century or so before his time, was immediately employed for cosmological purposes, its military possibilities only becoming apparent later.
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