2019年9月5日星期四

Historical and Cultural Investigation of Chopsticks

The simple two small sticks, but the magical principle of physics is applied to the crest, the chopsticks are the extension of the human fingers, the fingers can do, the chopsticks can also do.

As the saying goes, people eat for food. No matter which country's people want to eat, if you follow the way of feeding, the world can be roughly divided into three main areas: one in Europe, the Americas, Australia, mainly with knife and fork to feed, can be called "knife and fork "Food circle"; First, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, mainly by hand to take food, can be called "finger feeding circle"; then there is East Asia's China, Korean Peninsula, Japan, and other places, mainly with chopsticks to feed, can be called For "chopsticks to take food circles." It is said that more than 1.5 billion people in the world use chopsticks today. Ordinary Chinese people use chopsticks for at least one meal a day. Do you think about the history of chopsticks when you use chopsticks? Today, let me tell you.

When did the Chinese start using chopsticks? From the archaeological point of view, in the Neolithic Age of 5000 BC, the original chopsticks appeared. The history of chopsticks in China has been more than 7,000 years. However, chopsticks are not the first food utensils to appear. Before that, they mainly used "匕".

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