The role of the snuff bottle, mainly can be reflected in the help to lift the addiction to tobacco, refreshing fatigue, clear the brain and eyesight, lower blood pressure, prevention of encephalitis, etc., the snuff bottle is relative to the traditional smoke, a better one, unlike smoking other cigarettes, as the stimulation of the lungs and trachea.

At the same time, it has been proved that people who use snuff bottles have a very small chance of suffering from asthma, and even encephalitis, so the overall benefits are more. Snuff bottle refers to the container of snuff, small can be held in the hand, easy to carry. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, snuff was introduced to China, and the snuff box was gradually orientalized, resulting in the snuff bottle. People's habit of using snuff is nearly extinct, but snuff bottles have been handed down as a kind of fine art, and have flourished, known as "a pocket-sized work of art that focuses on a variety of craftsmanship from different countries".

Chinese snuff bottles, as fine crafts, using porcelain, copper, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, the use of blue and white, five-color, carved porcelain, overlay, skillfully made, painting and other techniques, drawing on a variety of crafts inside and outside of the region the advantages of the elegant and the good people as a precious cultural curiosity, enjoying a good reputation both at home and abroad.

In the world, China has been known as the home of snuff bottles, in which snuff bottles with its exquisite and outstanding production technology, known as a variety of craftsmanship in one of the pocket art.

Snuff bottles for the container of snuff, snuff is a tobacco product, originally Western things, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty from Europe to China, after the processing of the transformation into powdered medicinal herbs, not only after inhaling the smell of eyesight to avoid epidemics, inhaling snuff in all walks of life is fashionable, and quickly integrated into the Chinese artistic style, the development of ingenious snuff bottles, in the Qing Dynasty, aesthetics and craftsmanship Great splendor in the Qing Dynasty aesthetic craft, became one of the important symbols of the Qing Dynasty art.