7 minutes to learn about the history of packaging(1)

Just like the history of human development, packaging has also undergone a long development process. From its humble beginnings as a portable function, it has slowly evolved into the modern packaging that today combines display, portability and publicity, which has evolved over a long period of time.

From a large perspective, all things used to wrap items can be called packaging, from a small perspective, the packaging used for the circulation of goods is called packaging, in the 5,000 years of Chinese changes in the end what transformation packaging has undergone, let us set aside the fog of history, step by step to find out the truth.

In primitive societies, due to the low level of mastery of production skills, all packaging comes from natural rough processing, such as the hollow bone tubes specially selected to protect the bone needles used in sewing in primitive societies, the rattan and leaves taken from nature for easy carrying, and the gourd scoops processed for easy access to water, in short, the packaging at this stage is mainly naturally formed and can be said to be packaging from nature.

Due to the simplicity of this packaging and the ease of taking materials, there are still many applications to the present day, such as the dumplings we eat on the Dragon Boat Festival, the outside of the dumpling leaves are the embodiment of this packaging in modern society.

By the late Neolithic period, as human productivity had developed enormously, the art of making pottery by firing in clay emerged during this period, a simple and easy to manufacture method that shifted the original model of reliance on nature to the beginnings of self-sufficiency and packaging developed greatly, while the initial aesthetic designs on these pottery vessels were made possible by the initial discovery of dyes. This period is represented by a variety of rope packaging than was refined from thatched vines, and clay was used as the raw material for the processing of clay pots.

To this day we see many realistic examples of this, such as bowls tied with twine, vintage various twine wraps.

At the end of the Neolithic period, the emergence of the division of labour, the development of metallurgy and the emergence of the merchant, led to the emergence of bronze wares, the most representative of this era being the tripod for meat and the wine jar for drinking, as well as the emergence of the merchant, which led to the emergence of packaging in the true sense of the word. The childhood story of "buying a casket and returning it to the pearl" is the best proof of the packaging of that era.