My grandfather has always been very tough, but he has a great addiction to smoking. I spent half of my childhood at my grandfather's house, and my grandparents loved me very much, and the most profound memory was my grandfather's dry tobacco.

The shredded tobacco is made from home-grown tobacco leaves. People in the mountains live in the mountains for many years, the humidity is heavy and the cold is heavy, and every parent has the habit of smoking dry tobacco to resist the humidity and cold. This is true not only for men, but also for older women, who are often accompanied by a smoking bottle.

Therefore, every family in the mountains will plant a few tobacco leaves, or on the ground or next to the house or in the mountains, the seeds are accumulated in previous years, almost no money, and no much labor, economical and affordable.

Home-grown, home-made, not only convenient for their own use, but also often used to entertain guests. I don't know how many generations of this way of planting and such habits have been passed down for generations, but they may have had it since their ancestors first arrived here.

At that time, there was no television, and the radio was hard to see, and in the evening, it was common for a few people to sit in front of the house, or bamboo chairs or granite, with lights at the foot of the mountain, and dry tobacco in their mouths.

The tobacco leaf planted by the mountain people is a herbaceous plant with particularly wide and thick leaves, which has never been eaten by anyone, and the only use seen is to make tobacco. There are several special processes involved in making tobacco, and special tools are used.

Tobacco leaves generally ripen in midsummer, and after picking the fully grown tobacco leaves, there is a tobacco leaf rack dedicated to drying tobacco leaves, which is generally made of bamboo slices, and the tobacco leaves are placed on it, and then clamped and fixed with bamboo slices, and placed in the sun to dry.

The green and verdant tobacco leaves are tanned to a yellow-brown color, and the fibers are thick and tough, so they should be put away. It not only ensures that it is dried, not easy to be eaten by insects, and can be preserved, but also ensures that the smoke smell is not lost, and it is easy to knead into a ball, which is easy to put into a tobacco bag and put into a dry smoke gun.

When the tobacco leaves are finished, the pieces are removed from the cigarette rack. At this time, a special tool, made of wood, is used to press the tobacco leaves. A thick miscellaneous wood, chiseled into a deep groove in the middle, the tobacco leaves are stacked in the deep groove, and then continue to enter the wooden deed, the tobacco leaves are compacted layer by layer, and then the tobacco leaves are cut off little by little with a knife, and it becomes tobacco shreds.

In the mountains, there are many ways to use dry tobacco. One is the dry smoke gun, which is made of the bamboo root part of the bamboo, and the roots of the bamboo are particularly thick, thick, and fire-resistant. Dig a hole in it and use it to put the tobacco, and the bamboo is opened so that you can suck it.

The simple one is made directly from bamboo, and if it is broken, it will be made again, and there are many bamboos in the mountains, and it is inexhaustible. To pay attention to the point, the small holes dug out will be inlaid with iron sheets, or wrapped in copper, and the end of the sucking will be installed with a copper mouth, and even some copper will be wrapped on the smoking gun.

The tobacco is placed in a tobacco pouch and hung on a dry smoking gun. Cigarette pouches are generally sewn by housewives with needles and threads and fabrics, and some housewives are ingenious and will embroider some flower and bird patterns on the tobacco pouches. Cigarette pouches are said to be good love things, and girls in the mountains often use embroidered exquisite cigarette pouches to give to their favorite lovers.

The other is the cigarette bottle, which is all made of copper, boxy, deliberately erased from the edges and corners, slightly oval, and the bottom is flat for easy placement. A slender copper tube, bent into a particularly beautiful, even elegant, arc, is placed on top of this square copper seat.

There are also several holes of different sizes on the copper base, each with a different function. At the front end is the nozzle, which is shaped in a "V" shape, with one end slender and curved for sucking, and a thick and perforated end for the cigarette holder for lit tobacco. Connected as one, the whole can be plucked from this hole.

The bottom part of the cigarette holder is hollow, used to hold water, the role of water is very large, every puff of cigarette must pass through the hollow part of the water, which can effectively filter out the harmful tar in the tobacco leaves, and can also effectively roll hot fireworks.

I don't know how people thought of it before, and thought about it so carefully. At that time, they must not have known that there was tar in the tobacco leaves, but the smoke bottle made had such an effect.

The last end is particularly large, which is specially used to hold tobacco, called the tobacco box, and there is a lid on it, which can be rotated with a turnbuckle, and the tobacco can be opened and taken out when smoking, and the tobacco can be well preserved on the box after smoking.

There is a hole next to the cigarette box, one is specially used to put the fire twist of the ignition, the fire twist is generally made of straw paper, the smoke should be lit with fire first, and then the action is leisurely flicked, the open flame of the fire twist disappears, and only the dark fire is dark burning in the straw paper.

Rural tobacco will be loaded with a tube of cigarettes, and after a tube of cigarettes are loaded, then pick up the fire twist, blow lightly with your mouth, "porphyry" a fire twist will be rekindled, close to the tobacco, you can ignite the tobacco.

Another hole, containing a slender copper bar, usually inserted in the hole, is used to remove the residual tobacco or smoke stains in the cigarette holder, the tobacco burns often without embers, and there will also be stain deposits, then this copper bar will be used. Otherwise, the cigarette holder will be blocked, which will affect the quality of smoking and will not be enjoyable.

In my opinion, it is a very pleasing thing for people in the mountains to smoke with a smoking bottle. First light the fire twist, and then "pop", open the lid of the cigarette box, take out the tobacco with great experience, no more, no less, knead into a ball, just fill the cigarette holder.

One hand lightly held the cigarette bottle steady, the other hand brought the fire twist to the mouth, "porphyry" sound, the fire twist was blown on, close to the tobacco, and then the slender end was contained in the mouth, while gently sucking, while gently turning the fire twist, so that the tobacco was evenly and fully burned.

The tobacco "sizzles" burning, so red that it penetrates deep into the mouthpiece, and no smoke comes out, accompanied by the sound of water with a very strong sense of rhythm at the bottom of the pot, all passing through the spout and entering the mouth of the sucker.

After smoking this tube of cigarettes, with the hand holding the fire twister, two fingers are free, pull out a small half of the cigarette holder, so that the cigarette holder leaves the water at the bottom of the pot, and then blow out a breath with a little force against the slender pot tube, and the ashes that have just burned the ashes are blown out from afar, and the cigarette holder is reinserted into the pot with a "pop" sound.

A puff of cigarettes, some take a deep breath and smoke them all, and some are divided into several puffs, only the rhythm of "coo dong coo dong" remains the same. Then put on a tube, usually four or five tubes, before the smoking process ends.

My grandfather had a cigarette bottle at home, and I was attracted by the adults' leisurely way of smoking, I didn't know why, I was full of curiosity, and I took advantage of the time when no one was around, I learned from my grandfather, secretly smoked an empty cigarette bottle, and tried to smoke it once, but I didn't master the trick, and I smoked a mouthful of cigarettes.