How did people smoke in the Qing Dynasty? Smoking dry cigarettes was the most popular, and even the cigarette rods had many styles.

Today we talk about how people smoked in the Qing Dynasty. We modern people have a living habit, that is, a cigarette after a meal is better than a living god. In recent years, after the cross talk between Guo Degang and Mr. Yu Qian became popular, there has been a new fashion, which is smoking, drinking, and perming your hair. Today we will talk about how people in Beijing smoked during the Qing Dynasty. The ancients also had the habit of smoking after meals. In the Qing Dynasty, after lunch and dinner, people in Beijing also wanted to light up a cannon and take a few puffs. However, people smoking at that time were different from people smoking today. Today, people smoke cigarettes like rolls. Cigarettes were introduced to China by foreigners after the late Qing Dynasty. It must have been after the Westernization Movement. Why did the subjects of the Qing Dynasty smoke before?

There are four main types of cigarettes. The first type is called dry tobacco, the second type is called tide tobacco, the third type is called hookah, and the fourth type is called snuff. Let's talk one by one, let's talk about dry tobacco first. The most common dry tobacco is to directly dry the tobacco leaves, and then smoke it with a pipe pot. It is also more bold and unrestrained. It doesn't have to be so particular. Just light up and start smoking. Whether there are grades or not, there are really grades. This kind of dry cigarette is the lowest grade among all cigarettes. It is generally smoked by ordinary people. Dry tobacco is the lowest grade of the four tobacco types and is generally smoked by working people. How to distinguish between good and bad dry cigarettes depends on the cigarettes with strong smoke power, that is, the cigarettes with strong smoke are considered to be high-grade, and the cigarettes with small smoke power and strong smoke are considered to be low-grade. The best dry tobacco is Guandong tobacco.

The smoke of this kind of cigarette is very strong. Ordinary people, especially the old men, smoke this kind of dry cigarette to refresh themselves and refresh themselves. Guandong cigarette is the best of this kind of cigarette. , so the least powerful dry tobacco is white leaf tobacco. Some people really can't handle the strong smoke of Guandong tobacco, so they smoke lighter tobacco, which is similar to how some people smoke today. Some people are free and unrestrained and like strong cigarettes, such as Red Nanjing, Hard White Sand, Hardman, these cigarettes are more powerful, while some people smoke lighter cigarettes, such as Zhongnanhai 0.5 mg, which is more powerful and smokes 7 stars 0.1 The elder brother of mg smokes this kind of cigarette. If you stand next to a smoker for a while, it will be more powerful than this. After talking about the tobacco leaves of dry tobacco. Let’s talk about the pipe pot of dry cigarettes again. Since everyone smokes together, the pipe pot is a very common thing in daily life, and it is also a very common thing in daily life.

So naturally there is a comparison. Cigarette pots are generally composed of 4 parts, which are pots, cigarette rods, cigarette holders and purses. The purse is for storing tobacco leaves, and the purse is for smoking. The gentleman's family A woman's skills are limited. She can embroider a mandarin duck playing in the water, embroider the word "Fu", embroider the head of a wild boar, or embroider a dinosaur. She can be as unrestrained as she wants. This is a joke. Then there is the smoking pot. This smoking pot is usually made of copper. There won’t be much difference, but the smoking stem is different. If the cigarette holder is made of ebony or mottled bamboo, it will be of higher quality. Good Hetian jade, jadeite. If you don’t have a good cooking utensil and you’re particular about the copper head, it’s natural for people to pick up a good pipe pot.

Let’s talk about this kind of tide smoke again. The tide smoke is made by adding some water to the tobacco after it has been dried. This water is not ordinary well water, such as dew from flowers, branches and leaves of flower branches, and some This kind of cigarette is filled with Chinese medicine foam. This kind of cigarette is not as strong as Guandong cigarette, and it has a fragrance, so it is generally smoked by women. Ladies, wives of rich men, and some men who do not do physical work, such as scholars and noble men, smoke this kind of cigarettes in particular. The pot of this kind of cigarette is thinner than that of dry cigarettes, and the pot It is also smaller than the smoke pot of dry tobacco.

Tiezhi Bongya Ji Xiaolan smokes this kind of trendy cigarette, but the pot in his pipe is a bit exaggerated. This kind of cigarette is the favorite of old ladies. Not only is it not strong, but it also has flowers. There are also some fruity aromas. This is similar to some women's cigarettes sold in the market today, such as grape, mint, and mango. The recent emergence of electronic cigarettes is inspired by trendy cigarettes.

The third type that is less powerful than Chaoyan is water pipe. The water pipe has to be passed through the water in the smoke pot before dilution, so the power is even smaller. A hookah is completely different from a dry pipe. It is made entirely of copper. It has a hookah, and then a long tube and a short tube. The long tube is the one you use for smoking, and the short one is where you put the tobacco. There are some hookahs like this. They are very big, so people who smoke hookahs have to have some at home. To smoke hookahs, they have to have servants to serve them. The hookahs are big. You have to sit on a chair so that the pipe can fall. Go up to the ground.

Look at those people smoking hookah in Yunnan, and you will understand that this particularly large hookah is called crane legs. They are only enjoyed by nobles, and ordinary people can't afford them. In the end One is rhinitis. This kind of snuff is completely different from the previous ones. All the previous three types must be lit. You don’t need to smell this kind of snuff directly with your nose. First, the tobacco is put in. After it is dried, it needs to be brewed and ground. Made into tobacco skin, some Chinese herbal medicines and flower petals are added, and then aged for a long time. Finally, the snuff has both the taste of tobacco and the fragrance of flowers. This kind of snus was very popular in the Qing Dynasty. Not only does it not need to be lit, but it also smells refreshing and can be used as medicinal air.

It is recorded in Dream of Red Mansions that Qingwen had a headache, so Jia Baoyu brought him snuff. After he sneezed a few times, it cleared up his orifices, and he felt much better. My head no longer hurts. After talking about snuff, I have to say that the container for putting snuff is a snuff bottle.

Snuff bottles brought an industry to the Qing Dynasty. Those who did not smoke snuff had a hobby of collecting snuff bottles. Snuff smokers would take out their snuff bottles when they met and banned each other. The two sides compared It became snuff culture again. Snuff bottles are made of any material, including wood, metal, jade, glass, ceramics, stone, etc. Snuff bottles also have their own unique characteristics. For example, snuff bottles made of agate are of the small jar type and white jade is the best, especially white jade with leather, which became popular again in the late Qing Dynasty. The internal snuff bottle is a glass snuff bottle.

Painting inside the snuff bottle is definitely a skill. Painting a landscape, flowers, trees, talented people, beauties, flowers, birds, fish and insects, etc., the painter has reached the pinnacle. And the workmanship is also very exquisite.

The price of the snuff bottles left over from that year has also been speculated again and again. Now it is a main force in the collection market. These four ways of smoking in the Qing Dynasty. If you say that opium is still smoked, this is right. The construction of spiritual civilization is extremely unfavorable, so we won’t talk about it. After all, the Chinese people have been pouring coal for more than 100 years, and it all started with opium. This program of mine is still positive. We will not talk about opium anymore. Regarding the smoking of people in the Qing Dynasty, we will stop here. Thank you everyone.