The cigarette label is the trademark of cigarettes. The naming of cigarette labels is a recent thing. In Chinese and foreign dictionaries, the name and explanation of cigarette labels cannot be found. In the early days, cigarette labels were synonymous with cigarette boxes, cigarette skins, cigarette packs, cigarette shells, cigarette papers, etc. These were all named after the image and materials of cigarette packaging. When people truly realized their inner meaning and function, At that time, it was officially given the title of orthodox cigarette label. Cigarette labels are now collected by more and more enthusiasts and have become one of the three largest graphic collections in the world after stamps and sparks.

Since my country is a large country in tobacco cultivation, production and consumption, the number of cigarette brands can also be said to be the largest in the world. According to incomplete statistics, about 1,100 cigarette factories have produced 15,000 cigarette brand names in the past century. Many cigarette labels show the famous mountains and rivers of the motherland, gather ancient and modern figures, narrate mythical stories, reproduce exotic flowers and exotic herbs... all-inclusive, making cigarette labels a unique collection of history, culture and national culture. things.

Cigarette labels have been around for a hundred years, and most of the early cigarette labels came from Shanghai. Since Shanghai is the birthplace of Chinese cigarettes, nearly 350 national cigarette factories were established in less than 50 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China. They experienced the Revolution of 1911 and the May 4th Movement, which to a certain extent promoted the development of my country's national economy. From 1905 to 1906, there were more than 20 national cigarette factories opened in Shanghai, including Fushou, Taidong, and Zixin. By 1924, Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company and Huacheng Tobacco Company in Shanghai had become the two largest national cigarette factories. After experiencing the ups and downs of competition with foreign cigarette factories, they eventually became the symbol of the national cigarette industry.

From the early 20th century to the 1940s, the Shanghai National Tobacco Factory produced approximately thousands of cigarettes under various brand names. Nanyang Factory's "Golden Dragon", "Platinum Dragon" and "Bank" and Huacheng's "Beauty", "Golden Rat" and "Two Flags" were once very popular. The more famous ones at that time were Huafei, Fuchang, Sanxing, Huadong, Xinyuan, Zhonghe, Dadongnan, Xinmin, Huapin, Kunlun Brothers, Shanghai Gongxin, Dexing, Huaming and other cigarette factories also launched "Big Million" "Gold", "Double Cat", "Hero", "Arctic", "Golden Tiger", "Xiang Bin", "High and Rich", "Happiness", "Flying Boy", "Chinese Ship", "Lady", Cigarette brand names such as "Chang'e", "Shiqiu" and "Qiangguo".

In order to permanently preserve this part of the remaining cigarette labels, enrich the historical materials of tobacco in our country, and make these early cigarette labels with different styles over the past century a reference for current and future cigarette label designers in our country, domestic Published the "Collection of Early Chinese Cigarette Labels", which collected more than 800 kinds of early cigarette labels, becoming reliable historical materials and filling the gap in the study of early cigarette labels in my country.