The world's historical stories, even if you have the talent of the heavens, can not grasp all of them, maybe every object we use now, it has endless allusions behind it, many items do not even exist in China, the original birthplace is likely to come from abroad, and imported from abroad.
When it comes to cigarettes, I believe many people understand. Smoke this thing is harmful and no benefit, modern people with smoking addiction often take out a cigarette, light a fire, smoke a sip to feel refreshed, then Xiaobian to test everyone, the earliest human smoking when did it start? I am afraid that very few people know about this. From the perspective of world history, cigarettes first appeared in the American Indians, and then the famous Columbus found cigarettes in them, and brought the custom of "smoking" into Europe, thus popularizing the world.
In the earliest days, when the smoke was not what it is now, the Indians would use a small Y-shaped pot, insert both ends into the nostrils, and then fill the tobacco, light it from the other side, and smoke it freely. Looking at a lot of historical materials, you will find that in China, the first thing we can be sure of is that there must be no smoke in the Song Dynasty, li kui, Song Jiang and other good people in Liangshan will certainly pay homage to a cigarette one by one if they have a cigarette, everyone sits together and swallows the clouds and spits fog, of course, to say a digression, they can not all respect, a cigarette a day is certainly not enough.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, smoking in China is very popular, men and women, young and old, all over the street you can see people smoking everywhere with large cigarette bags, because smoking smokes more, everyone has found the damage of tobacco to the body, although there are a small part of the tobacco growing areas in the country, but there are too many smokers, many have to rely on "smuggling" to complete, which leads to the flow of domestic money into foreign countries, the imperial court is quite dissatisfied with this, began to implement a smoking ban, for the smoking ban, there is an interesting saying, because the Ming Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital Yanjing, Eating tobacco and eating "swallow" harmonic sounds were unlucky for Zhu Di, so in the Chongzhen period, a ban was ordered. But smoke was also widespread at that time.
Everyone's most intuitive understanding of smoking may be to smoke a mouthful of spit out, and the earliest way of smoking in ancient times is actually not like this, but chewing tobacco, they put tobacco leaves into the mouth to chew, thus stimulating the brain, such a smoking method looks very unique, in fact, it is far worse than now. But for the ancients, there is certainly not so much exquisite, we all know that smoking is harmful to health, if Columbus did not bring from the Indians, maybe we will be healthier now!