Smoking is an indispensable medium for social communication and business. When guests come to work or family, whether they smoke or not, the host should habitually toast and serve tea, which is not only a routine way of hospitality, but also an indispensable etiquette.
It is a long story about the origin of smoking and the history of smoking.
In the long historical period, human beings have no habit of smoking. The example of Indian smoking was found as early as 1492 when Columbus discovered the New World. It seems that human smoking has a history of about 500 years.
People in ancient China did not smoke. For a long time, it was generally believed that people began to smoke in our country since the Opium War. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. According to historical records, our ancestors began to smoke during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It also has a history of more than 400 years. Smoking was popular in the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of smokers in the Qing Dynasty skyrocketed, becoming an indispensable habit in people's daily life.
About the name and variety of tobacco
The original tobacco was smoked directly after unprocessed raw tobacco leaves were dried and ground, commonly known as dry tobacco. This kind of tobacco is more harmful. Let's not talk about the harm brought by tobacco itself. Just talking about the dust in the process of tobacco growth and harmful materials in the air is creepy. With the increasing development of production technology, there are cigarettes, which are more convenient to smoke and more gentlemanly. The first finished cigarette in China was Taishan brand cigarette, and then there appeared Xiangyang White Lotus and Golden Deer at the front door of Hardmen.
There are all kinds of brands of cigarette products, which are crowned with a variety of brands. There are only more than 2,000 brands of cigarettes made in China. It can be seen that thousands of cigarette names bring thousands of artistic conceptions. Although there are many brands of cigarettes in China, there are still some rules to follow.
There are many cigarette factories whose cigarette brands are merged into one, that is, the factory name is the same as the cigarette brand, such as Shanghai brand cigarettes produced by Shanghai cigarette Factory. Similar to Beijing, Tianjin, Harbin, Changchun, Shijiazhuang, Qing, Hefei, Wuhu, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Lanzhou and so on, this naming not only highlights the products, but also publicizes the reputation of manufacturers. Make it clear at a glance and never forget.
There are also some cigarette brands whose names are quite cute, because they are exactly the same as other well-known commodity names, such as Maotai and Xifeng in Chinese famous wines, and Maotai and Xifeng in cigarettes, as the folk saying goes, there is no separation of tobacco and alcohol. Domestic TV brands such as Peony and West Lake are famous, and smokers can watch wonderful programs of the same brand TV while smoking cigarettes. There are famous cars such as Red Flag, Golden Cup and Mercedes-Benz on the road, and cigarettes of the same name are sold in shops. Red Sorghum, Furong Town, desire and other film and television plays are well known, and they also have their unique names in the Yanbiao Garden.
There are also some brands of cigarettes that reflect the ups and downs of China's history. shortly after the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1949, the Jiefang brand of Zhengzhou cigarette Factory came out, and the Shanghai cigarette Factory also changed its decades-old brand into labor plate, symbolizing that the working people have turned themselves into masters, and cigarettes of brands such as large-scale construction, large-scale production, and bumper harvest also reflected the social style at that time. During the War to resist US aggression and Aid Korea, cigarette factories in various places not only printed slogans or slogans such as resisting US aggression and Aid Korea and protecting the country, but also successively launched brands of cigarettes such as anti-American, peace, handshake and Evergrande, which not only publicized the name of cigarettes, but also highlighted people's strong desire for peace and the strength of the motherland.
During the Cultural Revolution, it was also reflected in cigarette brands, such as red light, red light, red tassel, red bloom, and many cigarette labels also printed quotations from Chairman Mao, which also demonstrated people's idea of keeping pace with the times. Now facing the golden age of reform and opening up, people want to get rich, and some brands of cigarettes with a sense of modern life have been introduced one after another, such as ten thousand years of wealth, ten thousand families rich, rich and strong, big boss, gold million, 518,518, 16888 and so on. The names of these cigarettes highlight people's strong desire for a rich country and a strong people after the reform and opening up.
The return of Hong Kong to the motherland was a major event at the end of the last century. Three tobacco factories in Huaiyin, Zhangjiakou and Mengcheng launched three brands of cigarettes, namely, 1997, Sun and Hong Kong, to commemorate the arrival of the historic moment that Hong Kong will return to the motherland.
Cigarette brands can also reflect China's culture with a long history, and have everything, such as scenic spots, birds and animals, flowers, trees, insects and fish, mountains and rivers, integration of place names, historical treasures, historical figures and so on. All have the function of evoking some kind of psychological feeling.
There is a very interesting story about the big front door.
It was in the early 1980s, with the gradual deepening of reform and opening up, gift-giving had become an inevitable means for people to do business. At this time, it was time for a colleague of a state-owned enterprise unit in our county who was 20 years older than me. Because my son was not admitted to the university, he also wanted to take this opportunity to let his son work in a state-owned enterprise, but because his son looked like Wu Dalang, he was afraid that he would not pass the interview. He went to the personnel department of the county to find one of his old classmates. he thought that this thing could not be done. As a result, he went away empty-handed and came back empty-handed. Depressed for a long time, after everyone dialed, he suddenly enlightened, so he took a big front door to beg his old classmate again. As a result, he returned with a full load this time. When he was happy to see us, he let out a sigh: Hey! Old acquaintances don't follow Da Qianmen!
Although there is some irony in this story, it is not difficult to see corruption.
In November 2008, a photo of Zhou Jiugeng, director of the real estate bureau of Jiangning District in Nanjing, during a meeting was posted on various websites. people focused not on Zhou Jiugeng himself, but on a box of cigarettes and a watch in his hand. After conducting a cyber manhunt, people found that the cigarettes Zhou Jiugeng smoked were the Nanjing brand series of Ninth five-year Zun cigarettes produced by Nanjing cigarette Factory, with a price of 1500 yuan per carton. We did not investigate who sent the famous cigarettes, but soon Zhou Jiugeng was thoroughly investigated, losing not only officials but also people.
It is still a mystery why people smoke, but celebrities do have an inextricable bond with smoking.
Mark Twain is a famous writer in the United States and the world. I smoke a lot, Mark Twain wrote in 1891. It can be said that he has been smoking almost all the time. It's no exaggeration to say that. He bought buckets of cigars and boxes of pipes. He said his writing was inspired by his talent, experience, his anger, and tobacco.
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