A 90-year-old woman mistook fireworks for incense during the religious ritual in eastern China.

CCTV footage filmed in Rugao city in Jiangsu Province on April 15 shows an elderly woman performing a ritualistic incense offering to a deity when she accidentally lit fireworks that were stored in the house, mistaking them for incense.

The fireworks immediately went off, filling the house with sparks and smoke. Remarkably, the grandmother remained calm throughout the incident, even inserting the spent fireworks into the incense burner afterwards.

According to Mr Xu, his grandmother is 90 years old and partially deaf, and the fireworks looked very similar to incense, leading her to believe that everything was normal.

Fortunately, no one was harmed during this incident.

The video was provided by Mr Xu.

4月15日，江苏如皋，许先生家里的监控记录下不可思议一幕，他90岁的奶奶在对神像进行上香祭拜时，竟然误把家里存放的烟花当做了香进行了点燃，当场在家里燃放起了烟花。奶奶看起来并没有因此而惊慌，最后反而淡定地把燃放后的烟花插在了香炉里。徐先生介绍，奶奶90岁了，耳朵有些聋，再加上烟花外形上看起来和香也非常相似，她当时确实觉得一切都是正常的，认为那是香在冒火花，所幸烟花没有伤到奶奶。视频由许先生提供。