Chopsticks are the necessary tableware for Chinese people's daily life. Two long and thin sticks are held in their hands. Through the dexterous movement of fingers, people who are good at picking, pinching, plucking, pickling, killing and peeling can perfectly deal with the "challenges" of various foods.
The use of chopsticks with a history of 3000 years can be traced back to the time before the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
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Taking Ivory as chopsticks, we can see the luxury of King Zhou's life
The meaning of "Yi" is interpreted as "holding to go" and refers to holding to take things.
In some ancient books, the left side of the character "箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸箸
Later, there were chopsticks made of ivory, animal bone, jade, gold, silver, copper, iron, and other materials; in modern times, due to the development of industry, there were plastic chopsticks, aluminum chopsticks, artificial crystal chopsticks and so on
The materials of chopsticks can be roughly divided into five categories: bamboo, wood, metal, dental bone, jade, and dense plastic, which are all in the world
Besides chopsticks, they are also called... In addition to the name of chopsticks, there are many other names for chopsticks: "CE", "Ti", "Qiang", "Shau" and "Jian", but the main name is "Zhou"
In ancient poetry, the frequency of the appearance of "Yu" is very high because it cannot be separated from the literati's food and drink.
"Chopsticks" is a popular style that has long been spread among the people
The reason for this is that the pronunciation of "Yu" is close to "live", "stagnate" and "block". It is taboo for some people in some industries, especially the boatman who is engaged in the water career. Who is willing to "stay", "stagnate" and "block" the boat and waterway all the time? Therefore, in order to seek "good fortune", it was renamed "Kuai" instead of its meaning. With the addition of "bamboo" head, it became "chopsticks" in written language, which was recorded in the note "push window language" written by the Ming people.
Some famous literati can also use the word "chopsticks" in the middle of their poems. Bai Juyi wrote a poem like this: "a white cup of green bamboo chopsticks is clean without smell
”In Jin Ping Mei and a dream of Red Mansions, there are both chopsticks and chopsticks, which has something to do with the author's extensive use of slang in his novels.
Chopsticks are also historical witnesses. There are many historical stories related to chopsticks, such as "drawing strategies by using chopsticks": during the war of Chu and Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang used chopsticks as a pen to plan Liu Bang's grand plan to divide the six kingdoms, which greatly impressed Liu Bang.
In the romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Liu Bei had great ambition but was still young, he followed the policy of keeping a low profile. Cao Cao set a banquet to test him and said: "the only heroes in the world are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the best.
”When Liu Bei heard this, he was panicked and his chopsticks fell to the ground. Fortunately, the wind and rain mixed with thunder, so he disguised the past for this reason.
In the bequeath of Kaiyuan Tianbao, it is recorded that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty gave the gold chopsticks to Prime Minister Song Ji at a royal banquet.
Song Jing "don't know why can't praise"
Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty explained that it is not to give you money but to commend your integrity
In the ancient wild history notes, I sometimes read the words with iron chopsticks as weapons.
I remember a Shaolin monk who used iron chopsticks to practice flying flies in his spare time. In actual combat, he can catch flying arrows, which is a unique skill.
Besides eating, chopsticks can... Chopsticks are first and foremost a kind of eating tool
Liang Shiqiu once wrote an article "round table and chopsticks". He said that the round table he saw could seat 24 people. Such a big round table requires long chopsticks to hold vegetables.
This kind of chopsticks is only popular in Hunan
Small chopsticks, it's said that in the Qing Dynasty, when a big family and a young grandmother were pregnant, their mother's family would customize silver chain chopsticks in the silver building and send them to their son-in-law's house. "Chopsticks" means "soon give birth to your son".
In addition to food, chopsticks are also used for other purposes: long copper and iron chopsticks with ruler for fire and charcoal; long and thin copper chopsticks for cutting dragon and Phoenix candle cores in the cave; exquisite miniature gold and silver "auspicious chopsticks", "gift chopsticks" and "evil avoiding chopsticks"; small silver chopsticks for testing whether the food is toxic; and chopsticks with weight of one kilogram and length of more than 30 cm for barbecue meat“ Barbecue chopsticks "... As far as technology is concerned, there are "ebony three inlaid silver chopsticks", "four Leng ivory Inlaid gold chopsticks", "ivory carved landscape, people, flowers and birds chopsticks", "poet engraved chopsticks", and "couplet to chopsticks": one chopstick engraved with couplets, one chopstick engraved with couplets
There are also "pure silver concealed chopsticks", thick on the top and thin on the bottom. Open the chain button of chopsticks head. One chopstick contains toothpick, and the other one contains an ear spoon. The design is ingenious, which is amazing.
In "the customs of Red Mansions", it says "Jieshou Dao", "it's a kind of Dao that Manchu, Mongolian and even Han people took with them when they were walking for a long time in Qing Dynasty
Elegant, a green sharkskin scabbard inlaid with silver Baotou and silver ornaments. The scabbard is divided into two parts, one is inserted with a pair of ivory chopsticks, and the other is inserted with a knife with an exquisite handle.
”This is the chopsticks that have accompanied us for more than a thousand years and recorded countless historical customs.
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