snuff bottle

Snuff bottle Snuff bottles are mostly flat, shoulder-sliding, large-bottomed and small-necked bottles filled with snuff. Ordos has it for everyone, men, women and children, because it is a necessary thing to salute. Therefore, snuff bottles are very developed in pastoral areas, including agate, crystal, silver, jade, stone, magnetism and wood, and there are two techniques of painting flowers inside and carving flowers outside. The top-grade snuff bottle cover is made of silver, inlaid with a large coral or turquoise bead, and comes with a spoon the size of an ear-digging spoon, which can reach into the fine hole in the neck of the snuff bottle, dig out snuff from it, put it on your nails, and suck it on your nostrils, and you can sneeze immediately. However, when Mongols meet to exchange snuff bottles, they don't let each other smoke their own snuff. Generally, it is carried out at the same time as offering Hada. After the two met, they each took out their own Hada and snuff bottle, put Hada's mouth (referring to the folded side) towards each other, put it on their wrists, and held the snuff bottle in their right hand. Put Hada on each other's wrists and pass the snuff bottle with your right hand. The other person catches the snuff bottle with his left hand, puts it on his right hand, spins it in the palm of his hand, and then hands it in the other person's left hand. Hada puts it on the other person's wrist again, so that each person changes his snuff bottle and Hada back. Some snuff bottles have been used for generations and are worth three or four horses.
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