The Straw is a very common object in our daily life. However, it is such a very common thing, but also condenses thousands of years of human wisdom.

    When did the first Straw appear? If you ask Google, Google will tell you that the straw was invented by an American named Marvin in 1888.

    But Google's answer is actually the first modern straw, in fact, the first Straw in History is: Reeds.

    There is not much information about the history of the straw, but a poet more than 1,200 years ago gave us a clue to the straw, a poet known as Du Fu.

    Du Fu-poem "sent from his brother Asia to the judge, " there is a line in the poem: "The yellow sheep does not smell, more wine still drunk. Among them"Reed wine", it is to suck wine with reed rod inserted in Wine Cask.

    This is the earliest straw-related record we can find. In the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen explained the reed wine in his article, "the reed wine is drunk with the Reed as a barrel. Today, it is a favorite home-brewed wine of the people of Qiang and the Miao nationality. ".

    This kind of wine is to barley, barley, sorghum as raw materials, cooked after mixing with Wine Koji into the altar, to grass-covered brewing. When drinking, first to the altar into boiling water or water, and then drink with the reed suction. After the arrival of relatives and friends, we take turns to drink, smoke and then add water, until tasteless, then eat wine residue. To this day, Hmong, Qiang and other places still maintain this tradition of hospitality.

    From this, we can see, Reed Pole should be the ancestor of our modern Straw.

    Here we can also find an interesting thing, is whether the Americans invented paper straw to drink wine, or the Chinese people drink wine with Reed, the invention of the straw is related to wine! It seems that drinking has given mankind a lot of inspiration to create ah! !

    From Reeds, Straw, Straw... to paper straws, man has been using the original Straw to invent the modern Straw for thousands of years.

    Reeds

Straw pole

Wheat Straw

Paper Straw

    But it took only a hundred years for the paper Straw to evolve into the wide variety of plastic straws we have today.

    Compared with the paper Straw, the plastic Straw itself is impervious to water, no longer need to do waterproof coating with wax, can be thinner, production costs are lower. And Plastic is extremely malleable, allowing straws to come in all sorts of interesting shapes and colors.

    The public's taste has become more discerning and elusive, leaving many straw makers scratching their heads.

    Now, in order to protect the Earth's environment, people are beginning to limit the use of plastic Straw, the use of paper Straw is beginning to increase the prospects, perhaps not long before more than 1,500 years ago the most primitive long Straw will also become popular.