China, a country with a long history of etiquette, has a deep dedication to maintaining human relationships. In social situations, a cigarette often becomes a medium to express respect and enthusiasm. Nowadays, cigarettes have become a kind of gift, conveying mutual greetings and greetings. According to statistics, there are 3 "smokers" in China200 million, accounting for a quarter of the global number of smokers, showing China's important position in the world's tobacco consumption. There are different opinions on the beginning of folk smoking in China. Tobacco belongs to the Solanaceae family, which was not produced in China, and was introduced to China from abroad in the third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. According to the Book of Dew, tobacco can make people drunk and dispel miasma. Mr. Wu Han believes that the three ways for tobacco to enter China include from Luzon (Philippines) to Taiwan, Fujian and Guangdong, from North Korea to Northeast China, and from Nanyang to Guangdong. Among them, Luzon enters Fujian as the main route, so tobacco is also known as "building tobacco". Zhang Jiebin recorded in the "Jingyue Quanshu": "Tobacco has not been heard of since ancient times, and it began in Fujian and Guangzhou, and was planted in Wu and Chu since then. Experts generally agree with these views and believe that the first to bring back tobacco seeds were Fujian sailors.
However, some researchers believe that the earliest time for Chinese to smoke was not in the Wanli period, but in the Apocalypse year. One of the reasons for this is that tobacco is not included in the Compendium of Materia Medica, which was written in the sixth year of Wanli and contains 1,892 medicinal plants. The second basis is that the "Yutang Huiji" clearly records that eating tobacco began in the apocalypse, and people called tobacco "tamba mushroom" or "tambagu" at that time. Li Shihong said in "Notes on Renshutang" that "the name of cigarettes began in Japan". Since the main way for people to enjoy tobacco is to smoke it after igniting it, "smoke" is simpler and more vivid than the name "Tamba Mushroom", so "Smoke" quickly replaced the translated name "Tamba Mushroom". After tobacco was introduced into our country, it became popular rapidly among the people, and in the Chongzhen period, "I planted it everywhere, although the three-foot boy did not eat tobacco." Before liberation, women in Northeast China had the custom of "an eighteen-year-old girl holding a dry tobacco pouch in her mouth".
In recent years, some tobacco researchers have questioned the beginning of Chinese folk smoking customs, and have argued that it should be before the Han Dynasty. There is evidence that tobacco was cultivated in China before the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Ci" also reflects the smoking situation of Xiangxi people. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang led his army to the south and was infected by miasma, and the local residents sent cloud herbs to burn and smoke to drive away the miasma. Tobacco farmers in Yanzhou, Shandong Province and Deng County, Henan Province, believe that the tobacco they are growing now is the cloud herb used by Zhuge Liang to avoid miasma, which has evolved into the current drying tobacco after domestication. According to historical records, the most common way of smoking at that time was to dry the tobacco, cut it into shreds with a knife, install a smoking pot at one end of the bamboo tube, and put the tobacco into the smoking pot when smoking, light it and smoke it. The other is to roll the tobacco into paper to make the shape of a pen barrel, and burn it and smoke it. Both methods are still used today. As for the cigarettes that people use most commonly today, they were introduced from abroad in the late Qing Dynasty and the Guangxu period. China's own production of machine-made cigarettes began in 1902, and the first factory to produce cigarettes was the Beiyang Tobacco Company, which was jointly established by the government and business.
Researchers do not yet have a unified answer to when Chinese first started smoking. Although smoking has the effects of refreshing, relieving fatigue and analgesic, smoking is harmful to health. The World Health Organization also has a smoking cessation day every year, and everyone is advised not to smoke.
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