Where do snuff bottles come from for what they are used for, and what is snuff made of?

Snuff bottles refer to containers of snuff, small enough to hold in the hand, easy to carry. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, snuff was introduced to China, and the snuff box was gradually orientalized, giving rise to the snuff bottle.

Now people's habit of using snuff is nearly extinct, but snuff bottles have been handed down as a kind of fine art, and it has been known as "a pocket-sized work of art that focuses on a variety of crafts in different countries".

Chinese snuff bottles, as fine crafts, using porcelain, copper, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, the use of blue and white, five-color, carved porcelain, sets of materials, skillful work, painting and other techniques, drawing on a variety of crafts inside and outside of the region the advantages of the good, the elegant and the good people as a precious cultural treasures, enjoy a good reputation both at home and abroad.

Snuff is a smokeless tobacco product made of fermented tobacco powder flavored and inhaled through the nose. The thickness, moistness, color, irritation and flavor of snuff are varied according to the recipe.

Contemporary world snuff has more than 1,000 kinds of snuff, the main flavors are tobacco, mint, dried fruits, berries, flowers, herbs, coffee, wine, wood, earth, leather, musk, ambergris and so on. The Chinese Qing Dynasty summarized the snuff flavor types as five types: sour, stinky, bean, paste and sweet. White snuff is a special type of snuff, specifically referring to snuff without tobacco components.

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