Umbrella Name By Country
Jan 19, 2024
China is the first country in the world to invent the umbrella, which is at least 3,500 years old, and is known as the "China" for its invention. Umbrellas are also used in official ceremonies, and common people call them "Luo umbrellas". The size of the official rank is different, and the size and color of the Luo umbrella are also different. Emperor travel to use yellow Luo umbrella, to mean "shade the people", in fact, the main purpose is to shade the sun, wind, rain.
After the birth of the umbrella in China, with the increasing opening up and exchanges with the outside world, it has gradually spread to foreign countries.
In the Tang Dynasty, Japan sent 19 groups of "Tang ambassadors" to China, more than 500 people, including doctors, painters, musicians and scholars in various aspects, they went to China specifically to observe and learn Chinese culture, not only brought the Chinese calendar, astronomy, music, art and other cultures to Japan, but also including a variety of production technology, manufacturing technology to Japan.
Umbrellas arrived in Europe via Greece, Italy and Turkey.
It was popularized in France in 1620.
The first British umbrella was opened 100 years later, with philanthropist and traveller Jonas Hanway widely believed to have been the first, around 1750, though Fox's official website denies this. Because as early as 1712 Gays Trivia wrote The Art of Walking the Streets of London, And the British aristocratic magazine "Female Tattler" published on December 12, 1709 has already recorded the umbrella. But Jonas Hanway was the first Briton to take an umbrella with him. He traveled around Europe and found that an umbrella can keep a person clean and tidy, so he bought it and used it all the time to shelter from the sun and rain.






