Huo Che

The name Huo Che first appears in Feng Tian Jing Nan Ji (Chinese: 奉天靖難紀), a historical text covering the Jingnan War (1399 – 1402) of Ming dynasty.

[2] Rockets may have been used as early as 1232, when reports appeared describing fire arrows and 'iron pots' that could be heard for 5 leagues (25 km, or 15 miles) when they exploded upon impact, causing devastation for a radius of 600 meters (2,000 feet), apparently due to shrapnel.

Internal-combustion rocket propulsion is mentioned in a reference to 1264, recording that the 'ground-rat,' a type of firework, had frightened the Empress-Mother Gongsheng at a feast held in her honor by her son the Emperor Lizong.

[7] The American historian Frank H. Winter proposed in The Proceedings of the Twentieth and Twenty-First History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics that southern China and the Laotian community rocket festivals might have been key in the subsequent spread of rocketry in the Orient.

Huojianche (Chinese: 火箭車; pinyin: Huǒjiàn chē): It's a type of multiple rocket launcher supported by a two-wheeled cart, recorded in Si Zhen San Guan Zhi.

Rocket cart illustrated in Si Zhen San Guan Zhi
Depiction of rocket arrows known as "divine engine arrows" (shen ji jian 神機箭) from the Wubei Zhi .
A "nest of bees" (yi wo feng 一窩蜂) rocket arrow launcher as depicted in the Wubei Zhi . So called because of its hexagonal honeycomb shape.