Liang Shiqiu: Smoking is seen in character

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| Liang Shiqiu

Smoke, also known as tobacco, is transliterated as tambar. This poisonous herb is native to Central and South America and spreads all over the world. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that it was passed on to the sergeant. During the Ming Dynasty, Ricci paid tribute with snus, and snus later became popular in the government and the public. In Europe, snus is carried around in fine small boxes. When inhaling, dip a little snuff with your fingers, wipe it into your nostrils, and suck it hard.

When I was young, it was common for my grandparents' friends to wipe snuff on their nostrils from time to time, so that their nostrils and upper lips were stained with burnt yellow. It is said that it can clearly get rid of diseases, who knows? My grandfather did not smoke snuff, but he had the "Thirteen Taibao", twelve small bottles around a large bottle, the mouth of the bottle tightly wrapped in a yellow-brown cloth, each bottle tasted different, placed in a disc, dedicated to the guests. We Chinese more elaborate than Europeans, carrying snuff bottles, jade, jade, agate, crystal, finely carved and shaped. Some landscape paintings are drawn from the inside of the transparent pot, which is really magical, and I don't know how to write it. The pot has a lid, a small spoon under the lid, take the snuff with the spoon spoon and put it on a small jade pad, and then dip it with your fingers and suck it. My family hid dozens of snuff bottles, and in the chaos, only a white jade pot with an emerald lid was brought out, and a small half pot of snuff was stored in it, and after more than a hundred years, the strong smell was not removed, try to sniff a small spoon, and immediately sneezing could not stop.

My grandfather smoked dry cigarettes, pipes more than a foot long, emerald cigarette butts, and copper cigarette bag pots (the smoke bag pot is a sharp weapon used by the school master to beat the brain shell of the student, and those who have experience will not forget. The tobacco leaves of the famous Kanto tobacco are stored in an embroidered red satin gourd-shaped purse. Some dry pipes are four or five feet long, and if you want to light the tobacco in the pot of the cigarette bag, you are not a gibbon, it is quite difficult, and when no one is waiting, you have to draw a match and insert it in the pot of the cigarette bag, and then quickly turn around and smoke. Ordinary dry pipes are not so long, and they are not easy to clean. The smoke oil accumulated in the pot of the cigarette bag is often stuffed into the mouth of the gecko and put to death.

My grandmother smoked shisha. The hookah is imitated by the Hookah of the Arabs, but our White Copper Hookah made in China is much more well-behaved. Every day you need to rinse up and down, clicking and clicking. There is a special kind of tobacco, made in Lanzhou, which is relatively soft. Rubbing paper media with table paper is often a pleasure to mobilize adults and children to work together. Always keep one or two hookahs for courtesy purposes. I remember that whenever there was a patient in the family, I invited the famous doctor Zhou Litong to come to see the patient, this old man with a beard always stood tall in the back garden, at this time to send a bowl of tea and hookah, the old man picked up the hookah bag, loaded the tobacco, suddenly blew the paper medium, purred and smoked three or two mouthfuls, and then took out the pipe of the cigarette bag, blew the burned embers inside into his palm, and then put it into the spittoon in front of him, and cast it accurately. This set of techniques is clean and neat. After smoking three or five bags, he took a sip of tea before he began to speak: "What? Which one is uncomfortable again? "Every time it happens, the dragon comes alive.

My father was a cigar after dinner, replenishing paper cigarettes at any time, and the tin can of paper cigarettes was opened, with a hissing sound, and the date of activation was first written on the paper stick inside, so as to check that the daily consumption was too high. The cigar is shaped like an airship, with a hole in the tip, and it is really unsightly to hold in the mouth, but the smell is fragrant. Paper cigarettes are all imported products, middle and lower level such as robber cards in the early Minchu popularity, later such as white tin bags, powder bags, domestic beads, front doors, etc., are used by ordinary people. Among them, the powder bag is particularly popular, because the thickness and elasticity of the cigarette is suitable for the use of "anti-aircraft guns" for those who smoke heroins. Children most like to collect the colored pictures attached to the paper cigarette pack. It seems to be the front door number, the attached picture is a portrait of a good man from the Water Margin, if someone can collect a full set, they can get any prizes, and children are flocking to it for a while. Poor those enthusiastic collectors, wasted their time, how long did they wait, that timely rain Song Gongming just refused to appear! Whether someone has gathered the whole set, only God knows.

As the saying goes, "Tobacco and alcohol do not separate the family", smokers always put a can of cigarettes on the table, and guests salute cigarettes, which is the minimum courtesy. However, during the War of Resistance, this situation changed slightly. In the rear, the materials are difficult, only special people can take out "lucky", "camel", "three five", "Maurice" from their arms to show off in front of the peers, only the rich lady can hold a slender red-billed "Fatima" with two fingers between her fingers. The average person smokes "double happiness", and then the next one is to count the "cupid" cigarette. This paper cigarette in the name of blasphemous Eros, how the smell is self-evident, the strange thing is that there is unevenly painted salt on the cigarette paper, and when smoked, it will be like the children's play of fireworks "drip gold" splitting and clapping, sparkling, making people frightened. Rao is not beautiful, addicts or can not go a day without this king, and usually people each a pack hidden in the pocket, do not want people to know what brand, to smoke when they reach into the bag, secretly grope, and then suddenly pull out one, ignite after enjoying themselves. As soon as I heard the cigarette on the table for people to take, that kind of scene could not be seen again. Until now, everyone has regained their vitality, and it is very common to pay homage to cigarettes, but an open can of cigarettes is often placed on the table, and it is still rare.

I smoked paper cigarettes since the study abroad period, alone outside, no one prohibited, and the end of the world, the mood is numb, see others swallowing clouds and spitting fog, I will also be effective. For several years thereafter, from one pack a day to two packs a day, and one day to one listen. About twenty years ago, on a whim, I wanted to test how much self-denial I had, and I might as well start by quitting smoking. Mark Twain said, "Quitting smoking is easy, I've quit dozens of times in my life." "I did not choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, nor did I visit the room, and quietly threw the remaining paper cigarettes in the garbage heap, leaving the mouthpiece, pipe, cigarette pack, and lighter, and later gave it to others, but the ashtray was not abandoned." The smoking cessation method of "cold turkey" is not very good, for a while, the siblings are confused, the six gods have no master, but the work is too busy, to smoke addiction has no time, really can not survive to eat a piece of chocolate. The chocolate had not yet finished eating a box, and it was really greasy, so he gave up the chocolate. I'm ashamed to say that I quit smoking only once, and I haven't quit again since.

Smoking is useless, but many people say, "Why do you have an end if you don't do something unhelpful?" "And there are many things that are not beneficial than smokers, so smoking or not smoking should be decided by each person's own trade-off." There is a person who smokes, I don't know whether it is for stunt performances, or to save money to buy cigarettes, often take a sip of cigarette and swallow the stomach, never pollute the air outside the body, after a few years this person contracted lung cancer. I smoked for decades before I finally switched to fresh air that didn't cost much. If I encounter someone in a public place smoking, or even spraying poisonous mist in front of me, I will retreat and curse in my heart: "I used to be this disgusting look!" ”

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