In China, matches are called "matches". As the name implies, "matches" are matches from the west. It is said that in Qing Dynasty, some people presented matches as a kind of "tribute" to Emperor China, so people thought that matches were invented by foreigners. This is a big misunderstanding.
According to Joseph Needham, a famous British expert in the history of science and technology in China, the earliest matches in the world were all produced in China. In 577 AD, the Northern Qi Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties was attacked by some forces in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the South, and was attacked between Scylla and Charybdis. At that time, Beiqi was short of materials, especially kindling. Cooking and heating became a big problem, and a group of maids invented matches in such an environment.
4. Early matches were made of sulfur. Around 950 AD, Gu Tao, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote in the book Qing Louis: "I am in a hurry to go to the toilet at night, and the light is too slow. A wise man cut the pine tree into small strips and coated it with sulfur. These sulfur-coated wooden strips will burn when they encounter friction, and the flame is like the ears of grain. This magical piece of wood was called' light slave' at that time. Later, after becoming a commodity, it was renamed as' fire inch'. "
5. During the Southern Song Dynasty, according to the Legend of Wulin, about 1270 matches were sold on the streets of Hangzhou. There is also a record of matches in Tian Rucheng's Travels to the West Lake in the Ming Dynasty, which reads: Hangzhou people cut pine into small pieces as thin as paper, melted sulfur and coated them on the front of sawdust. People call this kind of thing "sending candles" or "quenching children". From these records, we can see that matches at that time were very similar to modern matches in form and function.
6. Before A.D. 1530, there were no matches in Europe, and the way to make a fire was friction and percussion. It can be said that the history of using matches in China is earlier than that in Europe 1000 years.
7. In Kyle's polo era, European travelers to China could easily buy matches and bring them back to Europe. The earliest matches in Europe were also made of sulfur. So it is very likely that European inventors referred to China's matches.
8. Modern matches were invented by the Englishman Volcker in the 1920s in 19. 1830, France's Soglia and Germany's Camelo innovated matches, and made modern safe and harmless matches with yellow phosphorus, sulfur and potassium chloride.