Chapter 46 The History of Little Baby
"Roasted duck, it's such a good thing. I'm not polite to my elder brother and sister-in-law." The man did not wait for Hao Huai to give in, nodded to him and Tang Feier, then reached out to grab a handful of duck meat slices and stuffed them into his mouth.
"Eat slowly, the beer will come soon." As Hao Huai spoke, his eyes were always observing the man's bulging chest pocket.
"Boy, the beer is here, drink it slowly, be careful not to choke."
After returning from the convenience store, Li Dun'er put the beer on the small dining table in front of the man, and then he did not forget to say a few sarcastic words, because in his eyes the man must have something wrong.
"Thank you." After the man thanked him, he picked up the beer and took a few sips, and then he started a delicious meal with food and drink.
Hao Huai and the other two had their own ideas, but no one spoke. They just watched the man finish the roast duck and drank the whole bottle of beer at the dining table.
After eating and drinking, the man burped at Li Dun'er, got up and scraped the shredded meat in his teeth with his fingers. His actions made Li Dun'er very angry. Without saying a word, he stepped forward and grabbed the man's neck and said loudly: "You guy has eaten and drunk, so why don't you take out the things quickly."
"Li Dun'er, don't do this."
Hao Huai was afraid that Li Dun'er would ruin a good thing, so he stepped forward and pulled him away, then smiled at the man and said, "Brother, you should rest slowly. I will not keep you if you want to leave."
The moment Hao Huai turned around, his face was obviously ugly. Li Dun'er was originally anxious, but at this critical moment, he had to calm down for the things in the man's pocket.
"Old Huai, you..." Li Dun'er saw Hao Huai's thoughts, but he didn't have a finger, so he didn't understand why Hao Huai was so patient.
"Okay, listen to me, sit down and wait." After Hao Huai's solemn orders, Li Dun'er did not dare to say anything. She sat on the stool and took out her cell phone to call and started the time.
"Brother, you are such a good person. Today, I don't sell this thing anywhere except you." Hao Huai finally felt at ease in his heart. He didn't want the "duck" on his lips to fly.
"It doesn't matter. Our buddies are all serious businessmen. You decide where to go, but as long as you sell things with me, I will definitely give you the most reasonable price."
Hao Huai said this, but he knew better than anyone else that he just wanted to please the man to make him trust him, which would definitely be beneficial for the price reduction in a while.
Although Hao Huai was only at the level of distinguishing the authenticity of antiques with the help of the ring, he already had his own business strategy in his mind.
"I dug this thing from the construction site. How much is it worth?" The man reached out to take a red cloth package from his chest pocket in the sight of Hao Huai and the others. The rough judgment was that the things inside were about the size of a matchbox.
Hao Huai reached out to take the small cloth bag from the man's hand, and opened the red cloth in two or three strokes. He saw a brown spotted stone inside, and the red stone snuff bottle was exposed in everyone's sight.
This is not the first time Hao Huai has heard of a snuff bottle, nor is it the first time he has seen it. As early as when he met the Chicken Man for the first time, Hao Huai had seen the sterling silver snuff bottle he stole. And although he has been eating, drinking and having fun with his two brothers these days, Hao Huai has also used it privately and checked the antique information he is interested in, so he has also gained a certain understanding of the history of snuff bottles.
The snuff bottle is a container for snuff, which is small and exquisite and easy to carry and play with.
When it comes to snuff bottles, we have to mention snuff. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, snuff was introduced to China as a foreign tobacco product. The custom of snuff smoking originated from the Indians, that is, the inventor of tobacco.
In the 14th century, the Italians used the best tobacco leaves, mint, borneol and other medicinal materials to crush them into powder, sealed them into a cellar and made snuff after several years of aging and fermentation, and formed a circulating commodity within the international scope.
At that time, when the snuff was very popular in the French palace, everyone from the French royal family to the servants began to snuff smell, so that snuff smelling became a fashion, and Napoleon was a European historical figure who had a special liking for snuff.
The history of Chinese people smoking snuff originated in the Ming Dynasty, and there were not many snuff imports in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was only limited to people in Guangdong. Later, during the Kangxi period in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the opening of the maritime ban, snuff and glass bottles containing snuff were brought to China by Western missionaries.
Snuff gradually forms a social etiquette. Whenever the host treats guests, he first handes the snuff to the guest. The guest takes the owner's snuff with both hands, then pours out a little snuff on his nose and takes a deep breath, and then returns the snuff bottle to the owner.
Later, because Emperor Qianlong often rewarded princes and ministers with snuff, gradually snuffing and smelling snuff became a popular style of divine learning.
Snuff bottles are specially used for snuff. Although China is known as the "hometown of cigarette bottles", China did not initially produce such special containers. Until the Kangxi period, the Qing Palace "Making Office" made a batch of glass, copper-tied and painted enamel and other snuff bottles, which not only allowed the Chinese to have their own snuff bottles, but also opened up a new category of arts and crafts.
Initially, there were many types of snuff bottles in the Qing Palace Building Office, including glass, enamel, jade, ivory carving and inlay, while the lids and spoons were mostly made of gilded or carved ivory carvings.
In the late period of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, these snuff bottles made of expensive materials gradually became rare, and were made of glass and porcelain materials. At this time, a large number of products from folk workshops appeared on the market, and a special inner-painted snuff bottle appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, and it has been used until now, forming a smart handicraft.
There is also a very interesting legend about the formation of the nose of the inner snuff bottle. According to legend, in the late Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a local official with integrity and integrity had to go to Beijing to do business, and hoped to handle it with the normal procedures that followed the regulations.
But the officials of the court at that time were cumbersome and inefficient. If they did not bribe, the important things you had to be delayed for a long time. After entering Beijing, the small officials had no money to respect the officials of the court, and because they used up their money, they could only stay in a dilapidated temple next to the capital.
The little official is usually greedy for snuff. When he used up the snuff in the glass bottle and had no money to buy it, he used a cigarette sign to take a little snuff on the inner wall of the snuff bottle to enjoy it. And he left many scratches when scratching the inner wall of the glass pot. This situation happened to be seen by the scheming old monk in the temple.
The monk started to paint on the inner wall of the glass snuff bottle through various things. Through unremitting efforts, he used bamboo sticks to bend out of the pointed head, dipped in ink to paint on the inner wall of the transparent snuff bottle, and then gave birth to a unique inner painting snuff bottle.
The historical background of the snuff bottle flashed through Hao Huai's mind, but he couldn't tell the reason about the material of the snuff bottle he brought to him.
"What's going on? Why didn't the ring give me a prompt?"
Hao Huai was a little puzzled because after the last upgrade, he knew that "purple longan" represents the primary treasure appraisal prompt function, that is, the name and age of the thing will be given, but the specific price will not appear, and this will probably not appear in the future upgrade.
Chapter completed!