There are actually reasons for Cixi to love water hookahs. There are generally four points: First, out of the empress dowager's own hobbies, she was born to like this; second, it is different from many men who smoked dry tobacco, including the emperor since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
And the ministers of the court; thirdly, the Empress Dowager is a Manchu. Like other tobacco-smoking minorities, the proportion of people who smell snuff and hookah is far more than that of the Han people. This is probably a place of life habits and hobbies.
Zhi. Mongolians are used to snuff smoking. One of the reasons is to avoid fires caused by smoking and ignition; fourth, smoking hookah is elegant and hygienic, which can be enjoyable and add a bit of leisure and leisure.
Empress Dowager Cixi must be served by someone to serve tea and smoke. The little eunuch carefully did it. According to records: When the master wanted to smoke, the eunuch had to kneel on the ground, hold the crane's legs and hookah tightly with his hands, and stand there
Hold it in your hand, put on cigarettes and ignite the paper media. You must also master the time to light the cigarette. There are generally rules when smoking, but there are also exceptions when smoking.
Hong Luo was shocked when he heard it: "Damn, no wonder everyone wants to be the best. But if you smoke a cigarette, you still have so many things to pay attention to. But no matter how particular Cixi is, she was broken into the city gate by the Eight-Nation Alliance?"
Seeing that Hong Luo was getting too far, Hu Hai waved his hand: "I won't talk about these things anymore, I won't talk about them."
Hong Luo stuck out his tongue: "By the way, you said that smoking hookahs and cigars are a good match. How do you spell it?"
"You don't know this anymore. You need to add water to smoke hookahs, and this add water is very particular. There is too much water in the warehouse, which is easy to inhale into the mouth; there is too little water in the warehouse, so there is no smoke pipe, and the smoke is directly on the water surface.
Entering the straw, it cannot achieve the effect of removing fire and impurities. The most important thing is to gently hold a small mouthful of tea, slowly spit it into the water tank from the straw, and try to inhale, and the water tank makes a "gurgling" sound easily
That's it. After installing the tobacco, the airflow decreases, the "gululu" sound will be longer. There is a clear rhythm but endless flavor, like a bird singing and a phoenix singing, which sounds quite a bit.
It is pleasant and has strong strength. If you accidentally suck the bitter pot water into your mouth, you can use relatively sticky rice soup to make tobacco pot water."
Luo Tian continued: "The tobacco water is not changed every day. Over time, it becomes as sticky as soy sauce, but it can be used for two purposes. One is that there are lees on the hands and feet in farming.
There are suction cups on both ends of this thing. If you don’t drink enough blood, you won’t let go easily. At this time, you only need a little water in the tobacco warehouse, and the leech will roll down immediately. Second, the child’s unbearable abdominal pain is unbearable, and the tobacco warehouse is an emergency.
painkiller materials.”
Hong Luo didn't know what a leech is? He had another question. This time, even the leader of the Yang Gang scolded him a little: "You abcs, you all know what fashionable things are, but you just don't know what your family matters."
Hong Luo was scolded and dared not interrupt anymore. He stuck out his tongue and continued to listen to Luo Tian.
"The second skill of smoking hookah is to blow paper media. The smoking bowl of hookah is only the size of the thumb, and the delicate one is even smaller. You can only smoke one litter at a time, and you need to reignite the fire every time. This is a problem.
At that time, there would be no lighter that is convenient now, and there were even matches. It would take flint or scythe to make fire."
"It is quite difficult to make a fire successfully. You can't just smoke a nest of cigarettes and fire it once. In this way, paper coal was invented. I used coarse fiber fire paper, and I hand-rooted it into paper coal that is neither tight nor loose. I'm ready to smoke.
, lit it, and slowly burn a little red ashes. After filling a nest of cigarettes, send the dark red fire to your mouth, tighten your lips, and send out a rapid and short airflow. The fire starts to turn red.
As the airflow suddenly becomes known, a ball of open flame jumps onto the end of the paper coal. This technique is not easy to master. The paper coal is too loose and cannot become ashes and burns out in an instant. If the paper coal is rubbed too tightly, the fire will easily be extinguished.
, it is not easy to catch fire when blown."
"There is another skill in smoking hookahs, which is to blow smoke. After smoking a nest of tobacco, only a ball of dark red charcoal is left, which is called smoke shit. Blowing the smoke shit out of the smoke bowl requires a little skill.
.Old smokers simply lift the cigarette pipe slightly to make the bottom end of the cigarette pipe leave the water surface of the cigarette cartridge, and then blew it gently from the straw, and blew it out of the cigarette pipe with a faint smokey breath through the water surface of the cigarette cartridge from bottom to top.
, bring the smoke shit out of the smoke bowl. This technique lies in the appropriate force. If the force is slightly stronger, the water in the tobacco warehouse will gush out; if the force is slightly smaller, only Mars will spray out from the smoke bowl and cannot carry the smoke shit.”
"The smoker who did not have this skill had to pull out the entire cigarette pipe, put one end soaked in the cigarette holder and put it close to his mouth, then carve his lips into an O-shaped shape, and blow it hard, and the smoke shit came out. If you accidentally
Leave a little ochre yellow color of tobacco water on your lips. If you really can't master this skill, you have to use the Tongting needle. The Tongting needle is a round copper needle with a sharp tip on the front end and a finger circled at the back end into a circle.
The ring is so big that it is placed on the ring finger when smoking, and when it is used up, it is inserted into the small hole in the middle of the cigarette holder.”
Hu Hai nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I think when I was a child, I had always added water to my father's hookah before I was forty. If he was happy and gave me a sip, I don't know how beautiful it would be.
The tobacco leaves are raw tobacco leaves. The tobacco leaves are bought ready-made cloud silk, and they are more of them grown by themselves. They are harvested and dried in the house until 80% dry. They are flattened with stone mills to flatten the protruding veins.
Tear off and turn it into a column, because the twine is tight. When the visitor comes, find a special knife for cutting tobacco. Just put on the bench and cut it into thin tobacco. This is the authentic way to suck farming. The endless tobacco leaves
Just cut it down, hang it upside down and then air-dried under the eaves."
Hu Hai sighed: "In the past, this is also a way for father and son to communicate with each other. It seems that the whole family is working on the hookah. My mother is responsible for planting tobacco leaves, processing, cutting tobacco. I, add water to my father,
Kong, my father took a breath and vented, not to mention how beautiful it was.”
Suddenly, a feeling of homesickness spread here, and the atmosphere became solemn. Luo Tian coughed unnaturally, and looked at the hookah in his hand. This rod was made of all gold and has a relatively large shape.
It is about 90 cm tall, with auspicious patterns on it, and two red and blue gems are inlaid on the surface. Is this hookah custom made? There are no numbers of the ages on it, it seems to be a modern product.
Gangmaster Yang said: "This is specially created by a master from China Street. It is not antiques. We are all rough people and don't know as fine as antiques. So, please don't laugh at Mr. Luo."
Luo Tian hurriedly said, "Where is this gift, I will collect it well."
When Gang Yang saw Luo Tian accepting the gift, he smiled with satisfaction and suddenly picked up the wine glass: "We are reunited in a foreign land, so it is considered destined to be there. Mr. Luo, I will toast you with a glass. I will do this cup, just do it.
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Gangmaster Yang drank the wine in one breath, and after that, he put it hard on the table, looking like he had something to say.