{"id":370,"date":"2008-03-20T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T02:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2008\/03\/smoking-in-china\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:49","slug":"smoking-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/03\/smoking-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good book answers your questions. A really good book answers questions you had not thought of yet. Apparently Tim Brook&#8217;s <em>Vermeer&#8217;s Hat<\/em> is a really good book, as it is already answering questions I did not know I had. Among the <a href=\"http:\/\/thechinabeat.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/coming-distractions-vermeers-hat.html\">many<\/a> topics Brook discusses (the book is about globalization in the 17th century) is the history of smoking. He points out that this was a new habit in China (and everywhere else) and he also talks about pipes. I had always known that Chinese pipes were rather long, both the tobacco pipes like this    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pijpenkabinet.nl\/Pijpenkabinet\/Plaatjes%20Pk%20ency\/Q-kiseru%20pakton.jpg\" title=\"Baccy\" alt=\"Baccy\" height=\"161\" width=\"200\" \/>or this<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shop.grasscity.com\/images\/thumb\/mb012_115.jpg\" title=\"water\" alt=\"water\" height=\"115\" width=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the opium pipes like this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.opiummuseum.com\/pics\/Wills_43627_normal.jpg\" title=\"pipe\" alt=\"pipe\" height=\"379\" width=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"rf1-370\"><a href=\"#fn1-370\" title=\" Note that when selling things on Ebay you can call them all opium pipes \" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> Brook explains that the reason for the long pipes is that smoking was considered a particularly <em>yang<\/em> thing, and you wanted to let the heat of the smoke cool (or de-<em>yang)<\/em> itself as much as possible. This is why smoking was not advised for women or old men, why women&#8217;s pipes were so much longer than men&#8217;s and, I presume, why cigarette smoking among women was considered so risque in the the 20th century.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-370\"><p > Note that when selling things on Ebay you can call them all opium pipes &nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-370\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good book answers your questions. A really good book answers questions you had not thought of yet. Apparently Tim Brook&#8217;s Vermeer&#8217;s Hat is a really good book, as it is already answering questions I did not know I had. 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