1, an ancient lamp, is an ancient lighting tool with the flame formed by fuel combustion as the light source, including torches, oil lamps and candlesticks.
2. Bean-shaped lamp is the earliest stereotyped lamp in China, and its material is pottery before copper, which appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people generally called the lighting apparatus "candle", which means torch, which is also commonly known as torch.
Candles originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Jin Dynasty. It is a cylindrical lamp made of beeswax with a wick in the middle, which should be used in conjunction with the candlestick. The difference between candles and oil lamps is that the fuel of the former is solid, while the fuel of the latter is liquid.
4, palace lantern-ancient lantern princess. Palace lanterns recorded in the Southern Dynasties are not only lighting tools, but also architectural decorative works of art, mainly referring to painted lanterns with fine wood as the skeleton, inlaid with silk gauze and glass, and painted with various patterns.
Nowadays, electric lights are usually used for lighting.