One Tool, Many Uses: The Tujia People’s “Ruyi Pipe”
Introduction: 78-year-old Rao Dawan has more than 50 years of smoking clay tobacco smoking history. The old man said: “Smoking tobacco to have a good stick, find a good stick than find gold digging silver is still difficult. Can have a good stick life are satisfied.
Chinese electronic cigarette information tells: 78-year-old Rao Dawan has more than 50 years of smoking tobacco smoke history. The old man said: “ Smoking tobacco to have a good stick, find a good stick than find gold digging silver is still difficult. Can have a good stick life are satisfied. ”
The production of a decent pipe is not easy. Its mouth and smoke pot are good copper, the largest up to half a catty. The most difficult to find is the & ldquo; pole & rdquo;. The pole has bamboo, nanzhu for the top grade, wattle bamboo second, zebu bamboo and second. The denser the better, the joints should be full and smooth, should not be too convex. Cultivate a pole at least one year, the first year after the bamboo shoots out of the ground, the selected size of the seedling, grow to a foot or so, from the bottom to the top every 2-3 days to peel off a piece of bamboo shoots shells, so that the section and the pole as early as possible to see the sunlight, not to the sudden growth, peeled to the required height (generally more than a meter, the longest not more than five feet), will be the upper part of the cut. To be long to l & mdash; 2 years later (the longer the better) will dig back, with red-hot wire will be branded through the bamboo joints, drying to the skin was golden yellow before installing the pot and the mouth of the cigarette. No wonder the Tujia people say that trees are easy to plant, and tobacco poles are difficult to nurture.Some also use the strongest, most beautiful & ldquo; glutinous rice strips & rdquo; tree. This kind of tree on the long fork of the place has a natural & ldquo; section & rdquo;, people will cut it back on the fire after baking hot, and then peel off the bark, the original long branches of the place of each & ldquo; section & rdquo; like an artificial sculpture, up and down the section of the staggered, to be drying the strip of the tree and then coated with vegetable oil, and then baked for a period of time, it became a brownish red.
Decorations on top of the big tobacco pole is also not expensive, the smoke whistle (i.e., the mouthpiece) sub-bronze, brass, jade, onyx and other materials.
With & ldquo; three big things & rdquo;: copper to do the warping of the smoke pot, used to warping the smoke pot in the butt handle. Tujia people's habit is copper can ward off evil spirits, night line will not be timid, plus the pole and five or six feet long, can prevent beasts and strong enemies. Tujia cottage men to smoke pole as a treasure, painted shiny, always with, such as the pen, warrior's weapon, a moment without it, as if no grip. There are also fine silk made of tobacco pockets and used to light a fire to light a fire sickle stone (before there was no lighter). These three items were decorated and tied to the upper part of a large tobacco pole, making it both convenient and fashionable to use. If you use the pipe as a walking stick on the road, the three pieces of the left and right up and down swinging, people walk up extraordinarily spirited.
89-year-old Hong Zhenfeng old man said: “ the use of large smoking pole of the old man smoking addiction is generally larger, a large smoking pole, a year at least to suck off the soil smoke 20 pounds. ”It is said that the general use of the old man with a big stick of tobacco to keep a hand in the smoking, for fear of a time when the supply of tobacco is not, to the addiction to smoke when there is no smoke. Keep a hand in the method is usually generally not allowed to pass the smoke stick in the smoke shit (smoke oil), as long as the smoke ventilation on the line, the smoke shit retained in the smoke stick, to that no tobacco when the smoke shit burn hot to smoke, so as to alleviate the addiction to smoke.83-year-old Tan Wenyu old man beautifully recalled her taste of smoking a big stick of tobacco: “ big stick of tobacco is long, to come out of the smoke but also have a qigong, smoking vigorously pull a mouthful, at least a very long luck, the average person's lung capacity can not be, you can not smoke burning. ” The old man also said: “ When you luck smoking, the smoke will follow the gas drilling into your internal organs, drilling into your pores all over the body, and then run out of the nose, forming a scene of swallowing clouds and spitting smoke, smoking to this point is called will smoke. ”
Tujia people's tobacco pouch rod can smoke, but also can drive beasts to beat snakes, dial grass to explore the road, defense against the enemy, it is really a multi-purpose, no wonder its wide circulation, no wonder it is called & ldquo; Ruyi pole!
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