Tobacco culture, like wine culture and tea culture, has a long history and profound cultural connotation. The cultivation, dissemination and use of tobacco have developed along with the development of society, and at the same time, it has been closely integrated with social and cultural life, forming a unique tobacco culture.
The emergence of tobacco is closely linked with the famous discoverer of the New World, Columbus. According to historical records, in 1492, Columbus discovered the New World, from the Indian island of San Salvador brought back the seeds of tobacco. 500 years of tobacco spread to every corner of the world.
China, whether it is from the "three feet of children, do not eat cigarettes" during the Zhenzhen years to the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Guangxu cigarettes, or has long been popularized by the mechanism of cigarettes, which went through a long stage of development. China's earliest tobacco origin is the Ming Dynasty Wanli Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. China's first tobacco monograph is the Qing Yongzheng years of the "Jinshi record", mostly for the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasty about tobacco records, exposition, poetry, etc., reflecting the early development of China's tobacco.
China's earliest cigarette labels, perhaps in 1889, the United States imported Duke Yankee Tobacco Company's "little beauty brand" cigarettes, commissioned by the U.S. American Maosheng Shanghai foreign trade test marketing. 1889 American Philips brought from the United States, "Pinnacle" and "Old Sea". "and "Old Knife" brand cigarettes from the United States to Shanghai to sell. As well as the British company Wheels will be "winch brand", "three turret brand" and other cigarettes imported into our country, by the British firm in Shanghai agent distribution, these are the earliest to enter the market in China's imported products.
From tobacco, dry tobacco, hookah, snuff to cigarettes, is a concrete manifestation of social progress. 19th century, our country is still accustomed to smoking soil-made tobacco, to the beginning of the 20th century, the world's cigarette trusts British and American Tobacco Company set up factories in China, the local production and marketing of cigarettes and easy to carry and the emergence of China's national tobacco industry and the development of the country's smoking habits have changed.
With cigarettes, there is packaging, packaging, there is a brand name. Cigarettes became a commodity and circulated and competed. In order to attract a large number of smokers, cigarette manufacturers and operators to take advantage of the novel packaging, inexpensive, widely publicized and marketed. Early packaging of cigarettes, not only rely solely on the brand name and pattern of the cigarette label, the means of marketing and large advertisements in newspapers and magazines, the printing of beautifully advertised cigarettes on the monthly card.
Monthly cigarette advertising since the end of the 19th century, is a novel, special form of advertising, generally used for the stronger enterprises. It is drawn by artists, well printed, realistic and practical. Tobacco companies in order to prompt smokers to bid for their own products, ingenious printed to integrate the whole set can be exchanged for expensive items or a single piece, several pieces can be exchanged for small gifts for the bait of cigarettes, quite popular with the smokers. British American Tobacco Company printed the "Qing Dynasty ladies" 350 pieces of a large set, Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company's "Vanilla Beauty Figure" 100 pieces of a set, as well as "Fengshen Bang", "Water Margin", "Jigong", "East Zhou Lieguo Zhi", "Liaozhai" and other sets of cigarette brands, has become a sought-after collector's item. sought-after collectibles.