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    Packing boxes have a long history

    2018-12-10 13:56:04 Announcer:Shenzhen Gathe Printing Co., Ltd. 646


    The development history of packaging boxes must be relatively new to everyone, how the ancients used to pack things, and how they were made. Let me tell you something.

    1.The original packaging box

    The history of human use of boxes can be traced back to ancient times. As early as in the later period of the primitive society about 10,000 years ago, with the improvement of production technology, production was developed, and the remaining items had to be stored and exchanged, and the original packaging boxes began to appear. Initially, people tied their prey with vines and wrapped them with plant leaves, shells, and hides. This is an embryo developed in the original packaging. Later, with the improvement of labor skills, people made the most primitive baskets and baskets from plant fibers, used stone calcines, clay pots, clay bowls and mud irrigation, etc., to contain and preserve food, beverages and other items. So that the packaging convenient transportation, storage and storage functions have been initially improved. The following figure is an ancient box.

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    2.Traditional packaging box


    Around 5000 BC, humans began to enter the Bronze Age. In the Xia Dynasty of China more than 4,000 years ago, the Chinese people had been able to smelt copper, and bronze smelting technology further developed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people mastered the steel-making technology of cast iron and lacquer painting technology, and iron containers and painted wooden containers appeared in large numbers. In ancient Egypt, glass containers were blown in 3000 BC. Therefore, the processing of various packaging containers with ceramics, glass, wood, and metal has a history of thousands of years. Many of these technologies have been continuously developed and used until today.

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    As early as the Han Dynasty, Cai Lun invented papermaking in 105 BC. In 61 AD, Chinese papermaking was passed to Japan through Korea; In the 13th century, when it was introduced to Europe, Germany built a larger paper mill. In the middle of the 11th century, China Bi Sheng invented Movable type printing. In the 15th century, live printing began to appear in Europe, and the packaging printing and packaging industry began to develop. In the 16th century, the European ceramic industry began to develop; The United States built a glass factory and began to produce various glass containers. At this point, the packaging industry with ceramics, glass, wood, metal, etc. as the main materials began to develop, and modern traditional packaging began to be excessive to modern packaging.

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    3.History of the Chinese Packaging Industry

    The Chinese packaging industry has taken more than 20 years to complete the development journey of the developed countries in the past 40 years, basically changing the situation of "good products, second-rate packaging, third-rate prices". The packaging industry has developed from a decentralized and backward industry into a complete industrial system with certain modern technologies and equipment and complete classification. Nowadays, the significant characteristics of the development of packaging industry are the internationalization of packaging market, the globalization of packaging industry development, and the interrelation and dependence of the development of packaging industry in various countries.

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    In October 1985, archaeologists excavated a joint burial tomb of Yuan Dynasty couples in Shuangqiao, Fuling County, Hunan Province. Two wrapping papers were found among the coffins. Caoyannong, a researcher at the standing director of the Chinese Cultural Relics Association, said that the wrapping paper unearthed from the Yuanling Tomb integrates packaging, advertising, and trademarks, and already has some of the main features of modern packaging advertisements. What is even more surprising is that paper packaging advertisements also have the same visual and Anti-Counterfeiting marks. Based on this, he believes that this is the earliest paper packaging advertisement found in China and may be the earliest paper packaging advertisement in the world. According to the textual research on the tomb, the owner of the tomb died in 1305. Caoyannong further pointed out that these two wrapping papers were printed by a paint paint shop in Changsha City 136 years ago. The long square shape of the wrapping paper is 33.5 cm long and 25.5 cm wide. It is a yellow-white hairline paper. The paper contains inscriptions and vermilion marks, explaining the shop's detailed address, the variety, quality and characteristics of the goods sold.


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