Confetti the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets. Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made
Shina (word) into China, where its usage was closely related to Buddhism. A Tang Dynasty (618–907) poem titled "Ti Fan Shu" (literally "preface to a Sanskrit book") by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang uses the Chinese term () to refer to China: 《題梵書》<br> 鶴立蛇形勢未休，<br> 五天文字鬼神愁。<br> 支那弟子無言語，<br> 穿耳胡僧笑點頭。 The Latin term for China was "Sinae", plural of "Sina." When Arai Hakuseki, a Japanese scholar, interrogated the Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti in 1708, he noticed that "Sinae", the Latin plural word Sidotti used to refer to China, was similar to "Shina", the Japanese pronunciation of . Then he began to use this word for