Chapter 34 Reminds me of the long-stem pipe

"Wanzhong Edition" published the picture and text of "Four-foot-long Pipe and Crutches" on March 28, and on April 2, there was another masterpiece "Falling Tobacco Pipe" by Mr. Xuan Jianren. Nostalgic nostalgia. In those days in the Mainland, you must be a respected old man with a high reputation, or an old shopkeeper of a wealthy businessman, with a cloud of servants, young apprentices turning around all day long, someone waiting for you to light a cigarette pouch and knock the ashes, Only those who are qualified to smoke the elusive long-stem dry pipe.As for ordinary people, having a "Jing Bacun" (ordinary cigarette pouch is about eight inches long, so it is called Jing Bacun) is enough to satisfy one's appetite.

The most famous leaf tobacco is "Kandong Taipian", which is produced in Ninggutai, Rehe Province. Can get people drunk.The lumps of smoked cigarettes are knocked on the ground, they are as white as silver and stay together for a long time. One year when I went to Chengde for business, I passed by Ninggutai and lived in a grain store. The shopkeeper was an old mother who was nearly 60 years old, and she didn’t avoid people. Smoking Kanto cigarettes.Although her pipe is over four feet tall, the bamboo pipe stem has been rubbed into a shiny purple red.She was alone, with neither maidservant nor apprentice envoy beside her.I was curious for a while, and wanted to see how she lit the bag of tobacco by herself.Who knows that it is not difficult for those who know it, and it is not difficult for those who are difficult. She filled a pot with leaf tobacco, passed it along the stem of the pipe, struck a match and inserted it into the pot, and smoked while burning.People in the Northeast are popular in rural areas for smoking long-stem pipes. It is said that the smoke is spicy and strong, and using long pipes can reduce the spiciness and anger. Of course, there is quite a reason for this argument.

In recent years in Taiwan, because the tobacco leaf is a monopoly product, there is no raw material for smoking dry tobacco. Except for a few old mountain dwellers who plant a few stalks of fragrant tobacco in the high mountains, dry and crush them, and smoke pipes, almost all flat mountain dwellers have switched to smoking paper cigarettes. .Seven or eight years ago, in Nanlong River, Kaohsiung County, all the returned overseas Chinese from Yunnan and Burma lived. The government guided them to grow tobacco. An old lady from Tengchong, Yunnan, crushed the dried tobacco leaves and packed them in boxes more than four years old. A ruler, as thick as a pigeon's egg, smoked on a bamboo root pipe full of warts and galls.Her way of lighting cigarettes is exactly the same as what I saw in the Northeast. People say that there are different winds in a hundred miles, and Rehe and Yunnan are separated by sea and sky. Coincidentally.I remember that Mr. Lin Yutang once said: The chief wife of a Chinese is a Chinese, passed down in one continuous line, and there must be similarities in some places.His most reasonable saying can be confirmed by the trivial matter of smoking a long pipe and lighting a match.