"Underground Traffic Station" is a classic comedy directed by Yingda. When this film was broadcast, the response was average, but in recent years, this film has begun to be raised to the height of a god film.
This film has a small underground party Xiaoshi is very impressive, Xiaoshi is a cigarette dealer on the surface, he often connects with Cai Shuigen, his sentence "Old Knife Brand, New Gaole, Ten Books" is a classic line of the play, so how are the several brands of cigarettes that have appeared in the play now?
- Old knife brand
Tobacco is a foreign product, in the Ming and Qing dynasties because it can be refreshed was introduced, the Ming and Qing dynasties also gave birth to many smokers, but China really has a tobacco industry in 1906 at the end of the Qing Dynasty when the New Deal rose, when the number of cigarette factories in China was pitiful, completely self-sufficient, and at that time China's national strength was weak, but all foreign countries were basically good.
In 1902, British American Tobacco was founded, and they decided to build a factory in Shanghai and began to prepare for the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the country, among which Pirate brand cigarettes were produced by British American Tobacco No. 1 Factory. The Pirate card depicts a pirate with a cutlass in his hand.
In 1919, the May Fourth Movement made the Chinese begin to awaken, and the Pirate card received a great shock. So the Pirate brand was renamed the Old Knife brand. In 1934, British American Tobacco also closed its Shanghai factory and established a new tobacco company established in the name of Chinese businessmen, Yizhong Tobacco Company, which continued to operate the cigarette manufacturing business, with Shanghai as the center, and sold in various cities, of course, Yizhong Tobacco Company was just a subsidiary of British American Company, and the control was still in its hands.
After the socialist transformation, the old knife brand was also renamed "labor brand" cigarettes, and the price was very close to the people, and it was said that it was only a dime a box. However, the sales of "Labor brand" cigarettes were not very good, and in the 90s of the last century, "Labor brand" cigarettes were completely discontinued. In 1994, Yizhong Tobacco Group Qingdao Cigarette Factory, Xuzhou Cigarette Factory, Yan'an Cigarette Factory restarted the production of "Laodao" brand cigarettes, the pattern of the cigarette label is the same as the old version before liberation, but at this time the Laodao brand cigarettes did not gain the trust of the people, many people criticized this is Chongyang's behavior, and finally in 1997, Laodao brand cigarettes completely withdrew from the cigarette market.
- New Koraku and Ten Honin
New Kolle cigarette is the Chinese transliteration of the English cigarette, which generally refers to high-end cigarettes in Europe and the United States. Ten Honiri is a box of 10 cigarettes in Japan, and it also refers to Japanese cigarettes in general.
- Three batteries
In addition to the several cigarettes mentioned by Xiaoshi in the play, there is also a three-gun battery, which is also produced by British American Tobacco, which was positioned at the elite of the upper class at that time, and the price is relatively expensive and the packaging is exquisite. However, the production of the three forts is all done in Europe and the United States, and it is a completely imported high-end cigarette. After the public-private partnership, British American Tobacco withdrew from the Chinese market, and they sold Three Guns cigarettes to the mainland's National Tobacco Company. However, because the "Three Forts" bear the obvious mark of Western colonialism and the name is not flattering, now, the Three Forts cigarettes have ceased to be sold in the market