火柴真的是“洋火”吗?很多人都认为火柴是外国人发明的,可实际上并不是。外国商人在19世纪40年代后,在中国大量销售火柴,人们慢慢地就认为火柴是外国人发明的了。到了后来,中国的老百姓干脆给它起了个名叫做“洋火”。其实,火柴的前身是由中国人发明的,但究竟是由中国的“谁”发明的,却有争议。1986年,英国的罗伯特·斯普尔曾说,中国人于公 Is a match really “foreign fire”? Many people think that matches are invented by foreigners, but it is not. Foreign merchants sold large quantities of matches in China after the 1840s, and people slowly assumed that matches were invented by foreigners. Later, the Chinese people simply gave it a name to do “foreign fire”. In fact, the predecessor of matches was invented by the Chinese people. However, it was controversial as it was invented by China's “who”. In 1986, Britain's Robert Spurl once said that the Chinese are male