Why do they have helmets on?

[displayfireworks1]

Why, you will see at the 54 second mark. Video from the Yenshui Fireworks Festival in Taiwan 2013 in the last few days of the lantern festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzDJRWRwM_o
Yenshui Fireworks Festival - Taiwan celebration to recreate the 19th-century plague-expulsion rituals.
The fireworks box is called a "Hive"

[smilli]

Maybe im a sissy but a wouldn't mind a helmet in that situation:P
Seen some footage of chinese festivals where they also shoot loads of bottle rockets into the crowd.

[PyroManiacs]

Sweet footage!!