钻木取火的故事，最早见于战国末年的《韩非子·五蠹》：上古时候，人们吃生的瓜果和蚌蛤，腥臊难闻，伤了肠胃，常常生病。后来「有圣人作，钻燧取火以化腥臊」，百姓很高兴，推他做首领，称他为燧人氏。汉代有一种说法，把燧人、伏羲、神农并称为三皇。

The story of drilling wood for fire first appears in the chapter Five Vermin of the Han Feizi, written at the end of the Warring States period. It says that in ancient times people ate raw fruit and shellfish, which smelled foul and hurt their stomachs, so they often fell ill. Then a sage appeared who drilled wood to make fire and cooked away the foul smell. The people were delighted, made him their leader and called him Suiren. In the Han dynasty, one tradition counted Suiren, Fuxi and Shennong together as the Three Sovereigns.

燧，本来是古人取火的工具。后来，这个字也指边境烽火台上报警的烟火，《墨子·号令》里就有「烽燧」一词。据《后汉书》注的解释，白天烧柴放烟叫燧，夜里举火叫烽。敌人一来，一座座烽火台接力传信，消息很快就能送到远方。

The character sui originally meant a tool the ancients used to make fire. Later it also came to mean the warning smoke on border beacon towers, and the word fengsui, beacon fire, already appears in the chapter Orders of the Mozi. According to a commentary on the Book of the Later Han, smoke from burning wood by day was called sui and fire raised by night was called feng. When enemies approached, the beacon towers passed the signal from one to the next, carrying the news far away very quickly.

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