Who Invented The Match

According to the records of the earliest matches were invented by our country in 577 AD, when the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the war was four, the Northern Qi was forced by the enemy, the shortage of materials, by its lack of fire, cooking is a problem, at that time a class of palace ladies magically invented matches, but China's ancient matches are just a kinder material. Later, it was introduced into Europe during the Marco Polo period, and later Europeans invented modern matches on this basis, once called "ocean fire". "Ocean fire" can be ignited by friction.
The man who invented this kind of match is the British Walker, he made a paste of antimony sulfide and potassium chloride using gum and water in 1826, applied on the match stick and clip on the sandpaper to produce fire.
However, the early production of matches had two very fatal shortcomings: (1) Yellow phosphorus is very rare and prone to spontaneous combustion in the heat, which is very dangerous, and (2) Yellow phosphorus is toxic, and the workers who make matches can be poisoned to death if they are not careful.
In 1852, after improvements by the Swedes from Tastrum, safety matches were invented. With phosphorus and sulfur compounds as combustions, it is necessary to rub on the box coated with red phosphorus to start a fire, and the safety level is improved. Since matches were invented only in the Northern and Southern periods, how did the predecessors make fire? Originally, the ancient people used two wood branches to rub together to make a fire, and then used flint and iron sheets, but the fire took a long time, which took one or two minutes.
The appearance of matches makes people's lives more convenient, in modern times, lighters and electronic firearms have gradually replaced the status of traditional matches, but the match has its unique side is irreplaceable, that is, the flame color it produces is the most beautiful.
The emergence of matches for our human life to bring convenience, more to contribute to the progress of the world's civilization, I believe that many people have read Andersen's "match Girl", this popular fairy tale written in 1848, when the invention of friction matches is only ten years of work, but he also wrote a fairy tale in 1835 "tinkerbox", About a magical flint, in the 19th century between the old and the new two methods of fire, Andersen's two fairy tales are the epitome of that transitional era. Or some people think that matches are insignificant things, but have you ever thought that if there is no match, our life may be as inconvenient as drilling wood to make fire? So the real friction match was invented later than the lighter.