Cigar

Author: Yu Chuan
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Cigarettes are a culture, and the pipes that follow have formed a highly culturally significant fashion, of course, more so for men. This fashion actually originated several hundred years ago as the "divine grass" used for sacrifices. After undergoing long-term refinement, it has become even more fashionable for people today. This beautifully designed illustrated book collects rich anecdotes about pipes: those wearing top hats, tailcoats, and carrying walking sticks, the British old-fashioned gentlemen, needed an essential accessory to fully express their dignified, noble, and profound character and image—a heavy pipe, the gentleman's pipe; while French pipes are quite different from British ones. The French, with their natural passion and decisive nature, have deeply imprinted this on their pipes. French pipes lack the British elegance and stability but are full of passion and restlessness. If one were to choose the most fitting word, then "knight" better represents French pipe culture. Unlike British and French pipes, Italian pipes conquer men with their unique charm and means. The sensuality and poetry of the Southern Europeans are fully revealed in the small pipes. The invention of the pipe, in a sense, has contributed to the geniuses of literary figures, philosophers, and scientists, such as Shakespeare, Huxley, Newton, and Einstein. Amidst the smoke, they brought the world numerous astonishing discoveries and spiritual pleasures. Cigarettes are a culture of the void, while the pipe has fulfilled the real existence of cigarettes.