The custom of smoking snuff originated in India, the inventor of tobacco. /kloc-in the 0/4th century, Italians selected superior tobacco leaves, mixed them with mint, borneol and other medicinal materials, ground them into powder, sealed the cellar and aged them, and produced commercial snuff a few years later.
Han people began to smell snuff in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, snuff was rarely imported, only smoked in Guangdong. Kangxi opened the sea ban, and western missionaries carried a lot of snuff and glass bottles with snuff. Snuff smoking is becoming a fashion.
There is a plot about snuff treatment in A Dream of Red Mansions. It is said that Qingwen wanted to scare Musk Moon and went out wearing only a small coat. When she got up the next day, she felt "stuffy nose and lazy". After Baoyu ordered Liao Sheyue to take it.
When Qingwen came to "Wang Qia Sheep Smoke", she picked some with her nails and sniffed them in her nose. "Suddenly, a sour smell in her nose penetrated into her fontanel, and she sneezed five or six times in a row." Then she felt happy. "Wang Qia Yang Yan" used here is snuff.
Zhao Xuemin, a famous physician in Qing Dynasty, listed snuff as one of the traditional Chinese medicines in Compendium of Materia Medica. It is pointed out that: "snuff comes from the west, the top grade flies, the second grade is duck head green, and it tastes slightly sour, which is called bean smoke, and red is the bottom." /kloc-At the end of 0/7th century, western medicine was gradually introduced into China. Snuff is one of them. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Matteo Ricci, an Italian, came to China and found snuff in the tribute.
It is said that in ancient times, from the emperor to the common people began to use snuff bottles, and exquisite snuff bottles became a symbol of identity, and the exquisite degree of snuff bottles reached its peak during the Qianlong period of Yongzheng.
Among the existing cultural relics, Shunzhi Cheng made more than 20 bronze carved Yunlong snuff bottles, which are the earliest snuff bottles. Kangxi has a soft spot for western handicrafts. He absorbed a group of westerners who were familiar with making glass snuff bottles and painting enamel, and made snuff bottles in the Forbidden City. The art of snuff bottles reached its peak in Qianlong period. Appreciating the collection of snuff bottles is a common practice, and the use of snuff is gradually followed. All the skills of China traditional art: painting, calligraphy, porcelain burning, glaze application, jade grinding, rhinoceros smelting, tooth carving, bamboo carving, paint stripping, nesting, ornaments, gold and silver inlaying, mother-of-pearl inlaying, yellow paste and so on. They are all used on snuff bottles. During the Qianlong period, snuff bottles became a symbol of wealth.
The legend of snuff bottle has an interesting legend about the formation of internal painting.
Smelling this smoke has a certain effect on relieving fatigue. It originated from American Indians and was discovered by European travelers exploring America. It was brought back to Europe and soon became popular. At that time, all the kings, princes, princesses and servants in the French court took snuff as a fashion. Napoleon I was also a snuff lover.
It is recorded that he spends more than 7 pounds of snuff every month. /kloc-After the 6th century, snuff was introduced to the northeast of China through Europe, the Philippines, Japan and Korea, where nomadic people could not smoke with pipes while riding horses. Therefore, the introduction of snuff is just suitable for their outdoor smelling characteristics. In order to make the snuff bottle strong and not afraid of bumping, it is used by vagrants.
All kinds of jade, metal and bone horn materials are used to make snuff bottles.
According to historical records, snuff played a very important role in the social life of Mongols at that time. Whenever a guest visits the host's tent, the host will bow to the guest, holding the snuff bottle in both hands, and the guest will pour out a little snuff with his own snuff, put it on his nose for a while, and then return the snuff bottle to the host with both hands. This very small move is full of civilized manners, and its purpose is to build mutual respect and trust. Although snuff and snuff bottles were not born in China, they were genuine foreign products, but they soon became popular in China.
/kloc-After the 6th century, snuff was introduced to the northeast of China, where nomadic people could not smoke with pipes while riding horses, and snuff was suitable for them to smoke immediately, so it quickly became popular. In order to make the snuff bottle durable, nomads use all kinds of jade, metal and bone horn materials. With its exquisite and unique shape, diverse materials and exquisite and meticulous production technology, the snuff bottle has gradually developed into an artistic masterpiece that people appreciate and highlight their status. China's snuff bottle is a combination of painting and calligraphy, carving, inlaying, pondering and other techniques. It uses blue and white, multicolored, porcelain carving, nesting, ingenious craftsmanship, internal painting and other techniques to absorb the advantages of various crafts inside and outside the region. It is a typical object of organic integration of Chinese and foreign culture and art.