The development of human lighting can be traced back to ancient times. Humans first used natural light for lighting, and realized lighting by using ready-made light sources in nature, which was the earliest lighting method adopted by ancestors. The ancients followed the natural periodic law of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset", mainly because sunlight is the best lighting tool.

With the development of human civilization, people began to use artificial fire lighting. The earliest lighting tool for artificial fire was torch, and later tools such as animal fat lighting and kerosene lamp appeared.

Electrified lighting is the most important revolutionary change in modern times. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, Edison invented the electric light bulb, which created the history of human electricity lighting.