Warring States had not found the kind of called lights. Shang Dynasty Oracle also no lights, candles and the like words. Out in the daily lives of people in the Western Zhou Dynasty Now the "candle" is earliest lighting Yongqi records. Western Zhou Dynasty, "candle" A torch made of flammable materials, for sticking Torch has been lit, called candle; used to ignite the piles Xicao and twigs on the ground called Liao; Liao placed outside said candle, door Claimed that tribunal Liao. The earliest extant lamps out of the Warring States, a blue cream Ming Zhu, Hua stirrup wrong some of the records of the "Songs Evocation, "Stirrup" description of the Warring States Period. In the Zhou Dynasty, "stirrup", "landing" General, "Ya interpreter:" pigeonpea called beans, bamboo The beans beans that the basket for fruits, Watts beans that of the board. "Xu Xuan said: this vulgar do for lights, non-Jinguo Pu cloud: the ritual of the ancients" stirrup "said the lights should be The guise of the meaning of words. Beans, is one of the Shang and Zhou dynasties Ning tableware, utensils used to bloom pickles, pate, ancient ritual, the use of Bronze, terra cotta system. Pottery bean the earliest lamps can see the tombs of the Warring States, you can see a the center of the bottom of the plate was * like Projections can be inserted wick fine ceramic beans, it was the lighting equipment, but also the main form of China's ancient lamps one. From retrospective beans lamp calendar History, to understand the generation of the "stirrup" word, we can not help but see the thinking and creativity of our ancestors at the same time create a bright, named for the lamps Sex.