Matches have a strange common name-"matches". It is said that this is because during the prosperous period of Qing Dynasty, some foreigners introduced matches as a kind of "tribute" to China.

19 in the 1940s, after the signing of treaty of nanking between China and Britain, foreign businessmen took the opportunity to sell a large number of matches in semi-feudal and semi-colonial China. So some people think that matches were invented by foreigners and called them "matches". As soon as the name "Matchfire" was put forward, foreign businessmen vigorously promoted it, and the strange name "Matchfire" soon spread like wildfire.