THE HISTORY OF CHINA

Chinese snuff bottle


snuff at history of china is peerage's signify ! a made man of that time !
AT royalty,people metropotis to use it . beacuse,this is popular.
in chinese ! can all use from emperor to aristocrat !
Snuff is a kind of pharmaceutical preparation which the perfect ground tobacco powder is put into some rare medicinal Herb's-musk, etc. and sealed them into the wax pills and then staled for several different kinds of color, such as dark purple, deep yellow, pale yellow and so on. It tastes mellow and sharp . It is said that it can make eyes bright, refresh, exorcise epidemic disease, invigorate the circulation of blood. In the years of Wanli (Qing Dynasty), tobacco was circulated from America, Luzon to Fujian Province in China.
As a matter of fact ! snuff is a tobacco ! Often use its people very easy disaster respiratory system acute diseae .
but snuff of history is very far.
But also . A lot of painters like to do the painting on the snuff . so the snuff is enidence witness of chinese history.