Hookah.
The bronze ware made in Beiping is said to be good, not only the quality is good, but also the workmanship is fine, the craftsmanship is high, the same thing, put it together for a comparison, it shows who is authentic!
Take the white copper hookah, which has been popular for a long time, especially in the hands of the old man who is the head of the household;In the hands of the big shopkeeper of the three doors;and in the moustache mouth, walking four or six steps, mixed at the door, in the hands of the old man. Look at this copper hookah, look at this beautiful!
No matter when, it is bright and shining people, and the things that wipe the copper utensils at that time, although they are not yet particular about what to rub the copper oil;But whether it is with fine incense ash or fine soil, it is always rubbed to the eyes. Like the little apprentice who bought and sold the land, the little errand boy at the yamen, the first thing he did when he got up in the morning was to pack the hookah.
First, pour out the yellow and stinky water from the cigarette pouch. Then pour clean water, use water and "break" in it!Just listen to this smoke pot on it, "Quack!".Quack!Quack!"Loud!After a while, the water that comes out of it is clean water, and it is finished!
The place where the hookah is held by the hand is the cigarette pouch seat!There are two hollows in the front and back of the seat, and the front is for cigarette pouches. In the back is a small chimney for cigarettes. There are two small holes on the left and right, which are two small tubes in the same form as the pen cap. One is used for inserting paper media, and the other is used for inserting copper cigarette clips and copper cigarette sticks. The cigarette skewer is pointed at one end and has a bristle at the other, which is used to brush the smoke pot for the smoke pot.
The seat of the hookah, and the bent mouth on the upper part of the hookah, there is also a "ding......When the long ......"Copper ornaments. I used to love to see hookahs smoked!
Holding a hookah in his left hand, he lit a paper medium that lit a fire, and handed it to his left hand and pinched it with his index finger and middle finger. First use your right hand, or use a cigarette pin, from the chimney, pick some hookah and put it on the smoke pot. Then he picked up the paper medium with his right hand, blew it with his mouth, blew the flames, smoked a little smoke pot, and listened to "Gollum!".Gollum!"There was a bang!
Just listen to the sound of the hookah for a while, and then look at the person who smokes, spitting out the cigarette from the nose, eyes and mouth, this is really a bit of a cloud, happy like a fairy!
The hookah of the hookah, I don't know how to make it, I don't know how to smoke, it smells very good. The color is as yellow as gold, and it is thinner than a hair. However, it is often covered with a vegetable leaf, which should be damp and not dry!
There is another kind of hookah, which is held on the tip of the ten fingers and smoked in the cherry mouth, the form is smaller than that of the man, the cigarette pouch seat, which is burned blue, and some are engraved with many flowers, which is more handsome!
Snuff bottles. Something, it's weird!Like not smoking, not drinking, not smoking and not drinking, that is!Someone went: "Reason." If you don't know beforehand, take cigarettes and alcohol to let the "Li" uncle, he will answer you with a smile: "There is a threshold"!
If you don't have the perseverance to quit smoking, you can't be blamed for finding a threshold to "be reasonable" and restrain yourself. However, many "reasonable" Bafang uncles do not smoke cigarettes that can smoke, but use their noses and eyes to smell the snuff made of tobacco leaves. In recent years, there are even more "reasonable" people who do not drink sorghum Daqu and rice wine Chen Shao, but can drink beer. Isn't snuff smoke smoke?Beer is not alcohol?There's no place to reason!
When I came here, I couldn't see anyone smelling snuff, even in Beiping, but in the early years, whether in the teahouse, the garden, the restaurant, the bathhouse, you could see the snuff addict at any time.
The raw material of snuff is tobacco leaves, and probably there is no mistake. If you ask me, how do you make the Fa?What spices to add?I don't really want to slaughter sheep!But if you ask what it tastes like. Sensei!I once smelled a nose, spicy artemisia, choking, dizziness, brain swelling, and the taste of learning to smoke cigarettes for the first time, exactly the same!
There are only two colors of snuff that I know, one is purple and the other is green, both of which are thin dry noodles. Because it is made of tobacco leaves, everyone who smells it is addicted. As long as you sit down, you can smell it at any time, and you can smell it as many times as you like.
If smoking cigarettes is bad, I think snuff is even worse!Some scab-loving people, every morning when they rinse their mouths, spit out the phlegm, purple, green, so afraid of people, never washed their faces, first wash their nose holes, a basin of water, wash into purple or green color, needless to say, even his heart, I'm afraid it is also green!
Those who smell snuff pay attention to good snuff bottles. Needless to say, the bad one!A real authentic snuff bottle can be enjoyed or played, quite elegant and profound!
The materials of the cigarette bottle are magnetic, stone, jade, crystal, ivory, agate, enamel, gold and silver. In terms of shape, there is a big one that is the size of a palm, and there is a small one that is not a small hand. There are oblate, pomegranate-shaped, peach-shaped small and exquisite, all kinds of colors, and the decoration is extremely fine.
In terms of value, a hundred and eighty is it, a thousand and eight hundred, ten thousand and eight thousand are it. A good pot is listed as an antique.
The capacity of the cigarette bottle varies according to the size, some are half a tael, some are a few dollars, and the top of the cigarette bottle has a mouth, and the thickness of the pen cap. There is also a lid on the mouth, which is connected to the lid and has a thin stick, and the lower part of the stick is flat and slightly low, which is equal to a small shovel used to shovel cigarettes outside the pot.
Some of this lid is a gemstone, and some are a small piece of jade. This sign is also made of gold and silver.
The plain snuff bottle is not valuable, and the attention is paid to the small pot that is not in the hand, there are paintings of landscapes, insects and birds, flowers, and people, which are meticulous and lifelike. If there is a painting on the outside of the pot, it is not precious, and there is a kind of crystal, or transparent texture, which should be painted on the inside of the pot.
As I said just now, the pot is small and has a big head, and the mouth is the thickness of the pen cap, which is carved out of the whole thing, and it cannot be divided into two halves, how to draw things in the pot?
Don't be busy, listen to me!Do you admit that our inherent art is broad and profound?Do you believe that we are in the art world, the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger?I know this kind of person, I have seen him draw with my own eyes.
The pen used to draw this picture is more than half the length of an ordinary brush, not much thicker than a thick toothpick, and there are no more than ten hairs on the tip of the pen, so that you can reach into the pen from the mouth and engage in painting. I don't know what kind of pigment is used, and it won't wear out after a long time.
I know this cigarette pot painter, who lives outside the Harder Gate, Wang Taiyi Hutong Ye's house, known as "Tobacco Pot Leaf". At that time, it was not very fashionable to wear glasses, this person had just nodded at the age of forty, and his eyes were already broken, and the protruding eye sockets were like two apricots. The whole family can draw, and my three younger brothers and I are all elementary school classmates. Later, the eldest two could draw cigarette bottles, and they were not inferior to their fathers.
And guess what?After the victory, when I saw him again, he was no longer poor and could not find Zhao Wang, the snuffbox made the times look away, and this person with unique skills also died together!
Chen Hongnian.