The development history of outdoor wall sconces is closely linked to the history of human lighting and has evolved with the progress of materials, technology and aesthetics.
Early outdoor lighting mainly relied on torches, lanterns and other simple lamps, these lamps can provide a certain amount of light, but the use of inconvenience and limited lighting effect. With the development of the casting process, people began to make more beautiful and practical lamps, but most of these lamps are still placed on the ground or desktop, the concept of wall lamps has not yet formed. The concept of wall lamps really formed in the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties and even the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In some brick tombs, often found in the wall of the chamber built out of the lamp engine, which marks the true meaning of the wall lamp began to appear.
However, at this time the wall lamps are mainly used for indoor lighting, the development of outdoor wall lamps is still waiting for time.
But mankind has never stopped the pursuit of light, soon people found that human beings not only indoors need lighting to meet their lives, outdoors whenever night falls, in order to extend the outdoor activities, also need lighting, so the outdoor lights were born. With the civilisation and progress of mankind, into the 1970s, people found that outdoor lights pick wall installation not only take up space resources, and hanging overhead not only make people feel depressed, and there is a security risk, and can not meet the specific space installation and lighting requirements, so the courtyard outdoor lights were born. In recent years, with the continuous development of smart home technology, outdoor wall lights also began to intelligent direction. Some outdoor wall lights have been equipped with automatic sensor switch, remote control and other functions, for people's lives has brought more convenience and comfort, such as up and down wall lights with sensor, grey up down outside lights, sensor up down light and so on.
