The Research On The Snuff Bottle Of Mongolian Nationality In Qing Dynasty

The snuff bottle is an imported product, but China actually has fine reputation of "township of the snuff bottle" . The snuff bottle spreads to China with the snuff in late Ming Dynasty . Along with the snuff being in vogue in China , the demands for snuff bottle which holds snuff become higher and higher , thus the manufacturing technology of the snuff bottle develops rapidly.This article mainly takes the snuff bottle Qing Dynasty Mongol widespread use as the research object, and makes research on the manufacturing tool and flow of agate snuff bottle especially from the angle of technology, simultaneously studies the cultural connotations of Mongol snuff bottle with the theory of cultural anthropology . The agate snuff bottle's manufacturing technology mainly has been grasped in the artisans of Han Nationality all the time , but Mongol's esthetic standard and cultural custom is always taken as the basis, this causes that the agate snuff bottle has been gotten Mongol's cultural brand . Because of this, it is believed that the agate snuff bottle is a kind of typical national handicraft by Mongol's own esthetic standard. But the findings exactly denied the above .The author discovers that , the agate snuff bottle is the combo of handicraft industry manufacturing technology of Han Nationality and Mongol's custom , and the unique Mongol's snuff bottle culture has been formed when Mongols use it. The snuff bottle manufacturing technology has been developed and enhanced with this kind of cultural formation and development.