Did people in ancient times smoke? Which dynasty did it begin in?
Tobacco originated in South America and was brought to Europe by Columbus during his voyage. At that time, after Columbus arrived in South America, he saw that the local Indians used a small Y-shaped tube, two ends of which were forked and stuffed into their noses, and the other end was stuffed with dry tobacco to light it, and then smoked. Columbus felt very novel.
Tobacco became popular soon after it was brought to Europe. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese came to Macau, China, and brought the habit of smoking, so people in China began to learn to smoke.
Along with Europeans came pipes, no matter how they were transformed by China.
Soon after, people began to grow tobacco in Fujian, which was the earliest place to grow tobacco in the history of China.
By the end of Ming Dynasty, smoking was very popular in China. It can be said that it is everywhere, and there are people smoking with big bags of eyes, including many women and children.
Then people gradually discovered the harm of smoking, and although tobacco was also planted in China at that time, many of them were smuggled in from abroad, resulting in a large amount of capital outflow. So the court began to implement the smoking ban.
Later, when the Manchu invaded, the Ming army confronted the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers inadvertently learned that the Ming army smoked. However, the Qing Dynasty was very poor at that time, because the two countries were at war and it was not easy to buy tobacco, so we had to buy it from North Korea, which also caused a large amount of capital outflow.
In this way, Huang Taiji was in a hurry and issued a smoking ban to prevent people from smoking.
After the Qing Dynasty, smoking gradually spread all over the country, and there were smokers everywhere.
The most famous is Ji Xiaolan. I believe that when we watch TV, we are all impressed by his bags under the eyes. This is the true situation in history. It is said that Ji Xiaolan is so addicted to cigarettes that he even takes a tobacco pouch with him when he goes to court. Do you really want to smoke some?