For Europeans, the history of tobacco development began at 1492, but the entry of tobacco into human society began in primitive society Latin America. As early as 4,000 years ago, the Mayans living in Mexico today began to grow and smoke tobacco. At that time, Latin Americans were still in a period when gathering and hunting were the main production activities. When people pick and taste plants, they can taste the spicy tongue of tobacco with intoxicating aroma, which can refresh themselves and be used as stimulants. But the more times you chew, the more you gradually become a hobby. The cultivation and smoking of tobacco has taken the first step in human life.
The evolution from chewing tobacco leaves to human smoking is related to the sacrifice in primitive society. Because people at that time worshipped gods and ancestors and provided them with delicious food. Tobacco has an intoxicating aroma, which can relieve fatigue, refresh the mind and even cure diseases. People think that tobacco is a kind of "divine grass" with the help of "God". At that time, smoking was carried out by priests as a religious ceremony. According to the ancient poet Wang Guowei's "Luo Mingshi", the word "Fu" related to sacrifice says: "Fu, in the name of sacrifice, put smoke on the wood and light it so that its smoke can achieve its purpose", so that heaven, gods and ancestors can enjoy the delicious food on earth. From this, it is not difficult to infer that it may be that people's behavior of smelling tobacco beside the sacrifice has changed to lighting tobacco and inhaling it, or when people chew tobacco by the bonfire, they throw tobacco leaves into the bonfire, and when the tobacco leaves burn in the fire, they produce smoke, which makes people feel like chewing tobacco, thus gradually forming a hobby of smoking. However, this speculation about the origin of smoking has not been proved by ancient literature or archaeological objects at present. However, in the works of human sociology, such as Coswin's Outline of Primitive Culture in the Soviet Union and Morgan's Ancient Society in the United States, it has been pointed out that American Indians had a hobby of smoking as early as the primitive society. Smoking among ancient American Indians was not only a trivial matter in daily life, but also a major event in religious and administrative activities among tribes.
The Spanish use the word "toba", which comes from the Aivaca Indians in Haiti and Cuba. Its surface meaning represents the cigarettes smoked by the Awaka people, but in fact it means tobacco leaves. The English phrase cigar, like cigarettes, comes from the Mayan word Ciq, which means to burn (note: the root of Ciq, Ci or Cii, means to smell or taste good). Maya was the first person in the world to know how to smoke cigars, and later it spread from Mexico to other Central American regions. With the help of others, a European named Dimento Pella first invented the method of making cigars. 154 1 year, pilar's friend and Indian leader Panduka taught him how to make cigars. Since then, pilar has started mass production of cigars in Cuba. Since then, this technology has spread from Cuba to Spain. It was not until the Iberian War of 1808- 18 14 that cigar smoking became common in Britain, and soldiers brought cigars back to Britain. /kloc-in the middle of the 0/9th century, the development of tobacco industry was in the ascendant. By the time of Napoleon, the habit of smoking cigars spread all over Europe.
Smoking a pipe is an ancient tradition of American Indian tribes. People of different tribes use different pipes, which are usually made of clay, wood, marble or jade. But for every tribe, the most important pipe is a pipe symbolizing war and peace. The pipe symbolizing war looks like a tomahawk used by North American Indians. The pipe symbolizing peace is carefully decorated and is a family heirloom of the tribe. 1556, the chief executive of Virginia, USA, smoked with a pipe for the first time in the British Empire. In Elizabethan England, people began to make and use popular pipes. Until the middle of17th century, smoking was also called drinking (note: English means drinking). It is said that the reason is that people have such a habit when smoking-inhaling smoke from their mouths and exhaling smoke from their nostrils. At that time, overseas students in Britain brought the habit of smoking a pipe from Britain to the Netherlands and Germany. In order to make pipe tobacco, large-scale commercial tobacco planting began in 16 15, which originated in a small town in Holland, Europe. Tobacco can be planted on a large scale in Europe because Dutch tobacco growers have played a leading role. They are pioneers in the development of tobacco industry and deep-water bombs.
The original consumption pattern of tobacco products in Europe appeared in the form of snuff. First as a medicine, then as a pastime. /kloc-in 0/503, Bai Ni, a Spanish monk who accompanied Columbus on his second expedition, discovered the unique custom of American Indians-snuff, which is through a thin tube, one end of which is placed on cigarette powder and the other end is placed in front of the nostrils. In the process of smelling, the tubule is often pulled out and cleaned. Now Mexico and Brazil were rich in tobacco leaves, so Indians in Mexico and Brazil also had the habit of smoking snuff. In Brazil, there was a professional snuff workshop that mixed high-quality tobacco leaves with roses to produce the best snuff in the world at that time. Snuff is usually hot. The Indians of the Otto Max tribe collected tobacco and mimosa branches, cut them into pieces, moistened them and fermented them. Then they mixed cassava flour to make snuff, put it on a plate, and put a fork in their right hand in front of their nose to smell it.
In the past, foreigners used to worship snuff very much. When dignitaries smoke snuff, they are used to dipping their forefinger in snuff and drawing it in a figure of eight under their nostrils along the top of their lips, which shows their unique demeanor and allows them to enjoy a kind of beauty.
China snuff began in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. Italian Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci was introduced to China. However, some people say that snuff was introduced into China as a commodity by Germany, France, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and other countries. There were many translations of snuff at that time. Snuff, in English, means snuff, snuff means snuff, snuff means snuff, and snuff means snuff.
Most people who smoke snuff are court officials, nobles and wealthy businessmen. Ordinary people only know their names but can't see what they are. The reason is that snuff is refined from precious medicinal materials. Because of its convenient use, it is regarded as a treasure by the imperial court and official households, and it is regarded as a "top grade for hospitality". In particular, the price of varieties varies greatly, and there are high-grade and low-grade points. On the ocean side, the difference is as high as several hundred yuan or even thousands of yuan. At that time, there was a comment in the court: "Gold is easy to get, but snuff is hard to find."
I am used to using my ring finger when smoking snuff, because it is more hygienic than other fingers, neither too big nor too small, and it is most suitable to stick it into my nostrils. At the same time, put the ring finger in the snuff tray, press the snuff to the nostrils, and feel refreshed with the air inhaled into the nose. With the increase in the number of snuff smokers, there are more varieties, and a considerable number of varieties are ashore from coastal cities and then resold to the mainland. Therefore, China also began to develop and imitate foreign snuff.
The most common way to dry tobacco is to roll tobacco leaves into columns. Dry tobacco can be rolled into "local tobacco" by whole or half tobacco leaves, but for convenience, cigarette holders, pipes and dry tobacco bags have appeared again. The cigarette holder is made of hollow stems of bamboo, reed and other plants; The pipeline is connected with the pipe through the pipe, which can produce a lot of smoke when smoking and accelerate the combustion process instantly; The reasonable combination of cigarette holder and pipe forms a dry tobacco bag; Nowadays, the popular cigarettes are processed into cylindrical tobacco leaves, which are evolved from dry tobacco bags.
Absorbent cigarette is one of the traditional smoking methods in China. The hookah can be sucked through the hookah. Both the hookah and the hookah are sucked in through the clear water in the bag and the barrel, so that negative pressure is generated inside, and the smoke is sucked into the mouth through the water, making a "goo … goo" sound when smoking, which is really "the most difficult thing to find is a vast wave of smoke". It is said that this can reduce harmful ingredients. If the pipe is filled with white sugar water, the smoke is sweet; Holding licorice mint water can clear away heat and quench thirst. From this point of view, the current filter can't compare with this advantage. Suction pipes can also be seen in Yunnan, but hookahs are relatively rare.
Mohe Tobacco, also known as "Shrinking Dragon Tobacco", is a unique member of tobacco. Mohe tobacco is a kind of yellow flower tobacco. It is said that it has been introduced into Xinjiang from Russia for more than 100 years, and it is favored by people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. The smoking method is unique. Instead of using a pipe, the old newspaper is cut into small pieces, rolled into a trumpet and filled with golden tobacco rod particles. It is said that the ink in the newspaper, mixed with cigarette particles after burning, tastes more energetic and has the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough.
Blue cigarette is a smoking method of Qiang nationality. Orchid tobacco is a kind of homemade tobacco. When smoking, tobacco leaves are wrapped in other leaves and put in a pipe for smoking, which is strong and spicy. Adults have control, and teenagers also have smokers.
Drinking cigarettes is a way for Africans to buy more cigarettes. Boil the tobacco leaves into thick soup before drinking. After the autumn harvest every year, tobacco leaves are made into long strips, dried, sprinkled with sugar and glycerin, sealed in a crock and buried in the soil for two or three years. When you want to drink, you will take a cigarette stick and boil it into soup. You will always take it with you in a bottle. This kind of tobacco soup is several times hotter than tobacco itself, and it has a strong fragrance and sweetness, and it is non-toxic.