 The word "match" derives from Old French "mèche" referring to the wick of a candle.A note in the text "Cho Keng Lu", written in 1366, describes a sulfur match, small sticks of pinewood impregnated with sulfur, used in China by "impoverished court ladies" in AD 577 during the conquest of Northern Qi.During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907–960), a book called the "Records of the Unworldly and the Strange" written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated