远古时代,人们取火只能利用自然火。自然火是森林偶然被雷击引起的,或是地下的天然气冒出地面偶而燃着的。其实,火柴的类似物在我国11世纪初就曾被试制过。北宋初年,民间用沾有硫磺的杉条摩擦引火,人们称它为“发烛”。但它和“盗 Ancient times, people can only take advantage of natural fire fire. Natural fire is caused by accidental lightning strikes in the forest, or underground natural gas occasionally burns on the ground. In fact, similar matches in the early 11th century in our country have been tried before. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, folk smoked cedar sticks with sulfur and people called it ”a candle.“ But it and ”Pirates