The story of“keeping the casket but returning the pearl”indicates that commodity packaging has considerably developed in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. During this period, packaging-specific functional properties have become increasingly evident. Commodity packaging has been gradually separated from daily articles and developed as an independent category through realizing the combination of art and life. Substantial evidence suggests that“subconscious packaging”originated from prehistory has developed into a conscious activity during the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period of Pre-Qin Dynasty.