The origin and development of ancient lamps in China: lamps evolved from beans.
A small pottery bowl with potholes on its surface, supported by the handle at the bottom of the bowl, is worthless pottery in the eyes of ordinary people and has no artistic value. But in the eyes of Qing Liejun, the owner of "Thousands of Lights", this is a treasure.
"This is the' bean' in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is the predecessor of the lamp." Celebrate the fierce army while playing, while explaining.
In the Stone Age, people learned how to use fire to keep warm, cook food, control animals and light. According to the unearthed records of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, as early as Shang Dynasty, human beings used turpentine torches for lighting. In the Zhou Dynasty, the extensive use of bronzes and pottery created conditions for the appearance of lamps. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, lamps for lighting began to appear. Beans were tools for lighting at that time and were made according to the shape of the food container-beans at that time.
At that time, people used soybean fat as fuel, put soybean fat in a small pottery bowl, put a wick on it and lit a lamp. From the archaic word "light", we can see that light evolved from beans. Ancient books recorded that lamps originated from beans, and tile beans were named Deng. Nowadays, many lighting tools in costume TV series are beans. "There should be beans with bronzes, but I haven't seen them yet."
Bronze ware was a status symbol at that time. According to Lao Qing's textual research, the use of bronzes as lighting tools at that time should be the right enjoyed by nobles, and the rough pottery beans were probably used by ordinary people.
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