Every nation and every country decides what kind of tableware it uses because of the long-established food culture. Europeans like to use cutlery, and we Asians like to use chopsticks.
As the saying goes, people eat food for the sky. Food culture is an important culture of a nation. Chopsticks are one of the symbols of Chinese culture. Chopsticks that are everywhere can carry the long-standing tradition of our country and are inseparable from our lives.
Then, from which dynasty the chopsticks culture was born, who invented it?
China is the originator of chopsticks. As unique tableware of China, chopsticks are a symbol of oriental civilization and crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. The chopsticks "head and tail" symbolizes the Chinese traditional interpretation of the "Tianyuano place" and is the Chinese understanding of the basic principles of the world. Secondly, when holding chopsticks, the thumb-index finger is on the top, the ring finger is down, and the middle finger is in the middle, which implies the Chinese “Heaven and Earth” three talent culture. This is the Chinese understanding of the relationship between man and the world.
Chopsticks' culture has a long history. Chinese people have used chopsticks to eat more than 3,000 years ago. The customs of chopsticks used in Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Vietnam are all introduced by China. As for the origin, the folk has three different legends.
1. Jiang Ziya listened to the instructions of the bird and used two thin bamboo wires to clip the meat and found that his wife was going to poison him. Since then, every meal has been eaten with two thin bamboo filaments, and neighbors around them have learned to eat with bamboo branches. More and more people follow suit, and the custom of eating with chopsticks has been passed down from generation to generation.
2. Legend has it that the king is full of anger, and once he has tasted that a few bowls of food are too hot, it is too late to change. In order to discuss Wang Huanxin, he had already fed the jade on the head to the king. After this method of picking up vegetables was passed to the people, chopsticks were produced.
3. According to legend, Daxie is the first person in the world to use chopsticks. During the flood control period, because he didn't want to waste the time of water control, he used two branches to pinch the meat inside the soup, and the people under the shackles followed suit.
1. Before eating or during the meal, try to place the chopsticks neatly. Do not insert the chopsticks directly into the rice.
2. When picking vegetables, don't use chopsticks to pick and choose in a dish, just pick the dishes you love. Try not to let the dish fall when you pick the vegetables.
3. When eating, don't beat the dishes with chopsticks, and gently put down the dishes every time, try not to make a sound.
4. Don't point people at the chopsticks. This is very rude behavior.
5. When chopsticks are stained with rice and vegetables, don't go to pick up the vegetables, keep the chopsticks clean, and use the chopsticks when you want to give others a dish. Pay attention to hygiene.
People in our country use chopsticks to dine for a long time. In daily life, the use of chopsticks is very particular. In the process of using chopsticks, some rude methods are best avoided. Here are some examples.
Fairy guide
The way to take chopsticks is to hold the chopsticks with the middle and middle fingers, the ring finger and the little finger, and the index finger sticks out. This is called "骂街" in the eyes of Beijingers. Because the index finger sticks out when eating, and always refers to others, the Beijingers generally point out the index finger to point to each other, most of them have the meaning of accusation. Therefore, the use of fingers when eating chopsticks is tantamount to accusing others. This is the same as the deaf and is not allowed.
Chopsticks
The practice is to put one end of the chopsticks in the mouth, use the mouth to squat back and forth, and occasionally make a buzzing sound. This behavior is very rude and is generally considered to be a lack of tutoring.
Chopsticks
This practice is to hold chopsticks in your hand and use chopsticks to patrol the dishes on the table. I don't know where to chopsticks from.
Upside down
This is to say that the chopsticks are used upside down during the meal. This practice is to be looked down upon as if you are hungry so that you don’t care about your face and use the chopsticks.
Publicly fragrant
When some people help others to eat, in order to save trouble, put a pair of chopsticks in the rice and hand it to the other party. This will be regarded as disrespectful because in many places in our country, inserting a pair of chopsticks into the rice is undoubtedly regarded as the same as giving the dead, so it is very taboo to insert the chopsticks in the bowl.
Cross
Place chopsticks on the table casually while dining. this is not right. In the northern part of China, many people think that playing a fork at the dinner table is a total denial of the rest of the same table, just as the students write the wrong homework and are the same as the teacher's fork. In addition, this practice is also disrespectful to oneself, because in the past when the lawsuit was painted, it was only crossed.
The use of chopsticks by one person can allow others to see his personal qualities, so pay attention to the correct use of chopsticks in daily life.
Every Chinese has a taste of home. It is a habit of taste and emotional memory. It has different tastes from north to south, but the love for family is unique.
The child tasted the ups and downs of life for the first time through the chopsticks. The old man tasted the happiness of the children and grandchildren through the chopsticks. The lonely person found the warmth of the people because of the "adding double chopsticks", and the people who obeyed each other realized the dependence of the soul...
Enlightenment, inheritance, courtesy, care, thoughts, good neighborliness, gratitude, watchfulness, and other Chinese implicit emotions can all be reflected through a pair of chopsticks.