They are the Jian brothers, the founders of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company. The one wearing glasses is Jian Yujie (1875-1957), and the one behind him is Jian Zhaonan (1870-1923).

Their names, the tobacco companies they founded and some cigarette brands are still in the memory of many people. The "Double Happiness" brand cigarettes produced by Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company have been popular in China and Southeast Asia for a long time.

The predecessor of the Wuhan Cigarette Factory was the Hankou Cigarette Factory founded by the Nanyang brothers. The early cigarette images of the cigarette factory were trademarked with their images. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Hankou Cigarette Factory was returned to the government. The trademark and image It was useless until Wuyan was reorganized in 1999. The formula used the formula of the old Nanyang brothers, and the image also used the image of the old Nanyang brothers to reflect the classic, elegant, and long-lasting fragrance product characteristics of Wuyan.

Extended information:

Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company was embryonic in Hong Kong and emerged in Shanghai. In the business environment of internal and external pressure, through the domestic campaigns to promote domestic products and the support of patriots in society, With strong support, it was able to survive and develop, and became the only national cigarette company that could compete with British American Tobacco Company at that time.

Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company has experienced a tortuous development from its founding in 1905 to public-private partnership after the founding of New China, and is the epitome of the development of modern national industry. The Jane brothers used domestic products as their call to develop China's national industry, which indeed reflected the patriotic overseas Chinese's efforts to revitalize the national industry.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company