Why do some objects have the word "foreign" in their names, such as matches and foreign cars?

?Nowadays, there are many objects with the word "foreign" in their names, mainly because in ancient times, our country's productivity was low, science and technology could not keep up with foreign countries, productivity was low, and the industrial base was particularly weak. Materials, large and small, cannot be produced, so many things need to be imported from abroad. In the old society, people used to call foreigners "foreigners", so things imported from their countries also had the word "foreign" added to them, such as Matches, foreign cars, etc.

Foreign means foreign at that time. During the Qing Dynasty, China was closed to the outside world, and then during the Opium War, foreign countries opened their trade markets. China imported products from foreign countries. We could not make many things ourselves and could only use products made by foreigners. Even matches and nails had to be imported from foreign countries, so the word "foreign" was added in front of these items to indicate that they were foreign. All these things are collectively called foreign things, that is, foreign things, which refers to fresh things. But these things are slowly disappearing from memory. These things are no longer foreign gadgets. Our country is not only the largest producer of daily household products, but also the most powerful country. These have become old-school terms.

"Yanghuo", "foreign gas" and "onion" all mean items that are not native to China but came to China across the ocean, where "yang" means "ocean". In the old society, China was poor and devastated. Today, China can produce almost all industrial goods in the world and is the world's largest trading nation. Who dares to say that China is not a world power? Our journey is the stars and the sea, and our goal has no end. Although some objects still bear the word "foreign", these are just symbols of the feudal backwardness of China's old society and encourage us to continue to move forward and become a world power.