| With the prosperity and development of tobacco and its products, smoking sets also develop rapidly. While using these smoking sets, people pays much attention to the decorative arts. So smoking sets can obviously reflect the different national consumers’ social status and custom in different historical period. Smoking sets is not only the reflection of productivity and technology,but also the crystallization of aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic temperament. Smoking sets’ history that from single to combination, from practical to artistic and from prosperity to depressed reflects the change of the times and progress.The history is also full of national history and culture.This article centered on smoking sets and interpret smoking sets and smoking culture of each nationality mainly from four aspects:the classification, function, structure and process, characteristics and causes. Smoking sets of ethnic minorities can be divided into three categories according to the use: paraphernalia for smoking, paraphernalia for holding,paraphernalia for lighting.They have a variety of functions such as practical, art, custom, religion and status symbol.The production and the decoration process is also incorporates the nation’s top traditional process and style which is a microcosm of China’s minority cultures.Almost all China’s nationalities have smoking sets and they are important in nationalities’ daily life. We can learn the social background,the environment,the level of producing and living,the technical ability,the faith and art from smoking sets. So smoking sets are compound of producing,living,knowledge,technic and custom. This article aims to discuss the smoking set and its culture of all nationalities in China,and reveal the development context. |
