Jining Hengjia Safety Matches

The first version of a match was invented in the year 577 AD by impoverished court ladies during a military siege, in the short-lived Chinese kingdom of the Northern Qi. Hard-pressed during the siege, they must have been so short of tinder that they could otherwise not start fires for cooking or heating.

Early Chinese matches were made with sulphur. A description is found in a book entitled Records o the Unworldly and tbe Strange written about 950 by Tao Gu: "If there occurs an emergency at night it may take some time to make a light to light a lamp. But aningenious man devised the system of impregnating little sticks of pinewood with sulphur and storing them ready for use. At the slightest touch of fire they burst into flame. One gets a little flame like an ear of corn. This marvellous thing was formerly called a 'light-bringing slave', but afterwards when it became an article of commerce its name was changed to 'fire inch-stick'."

There is no evidence of matches in Europe before 1530. Therefore, the Chinese were using them for just short of a thousand years before they arrived in Europe. Chinese matches could easily have been brought to Europe by one of the Europeans traveling to China at the time of Marco Polo, since we know for certain that they were being sold in the street markets of Hangchow in the year 1270 or thereabouts.

Chinese Matches - Article about Matches - History of Chinese Science by UNESCO Courier. www.findarticles.com

Matches - Ancient Chinese Technology. library.thinkquest.org

Safety Matches from China - Safety matches products from various China manufacturers and suppliers. www.made-in-china.com

JiNing Hengjia Safety Matches Co. Ltd. - manufacturer of 3 major series of matches of 20 assortments, and exports Chinese matches to USA and other countries. www.diytrade.com

Weishan County Yongjia Match Produce Co. Ltd. - produces all kinds of matches. Their matches are exported to foreign countries like Middle East, Africa, Europe, and South America. www.diytrade.com

Wuhan Bright Matches Factory - manufactures all kinds of matches including safety matches and fireplace matches. www.diytrade.com

Top Sense Global Limited - supplier of safety matches as well as many other products. shineliu.diytrade.com

Safety matches from china

JiNing Hengjia Safety Matches Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of 3 major series of matches of 20 assortments. Among those Chinese matches for exportation are the Double luckly104 , SPORT, the TIGER the butterfly the RAINBOW, the TORO, the GOOSE the koala and the HORSES brand, and fireplace matches. Which are exported to more than 20 countries and regions including USA, Singapore, Rwanda, Malaysia, Hong Kong, West Africa, and South America. Their registered brands are "RAINBOW" ,"SPORT","GOOSE","TORO", PARROT","HORSES"."THE PALMTREE","DOUBLE CRANE","LE CYGNE".