About chopsticks, etiquette taboos many people don't know.
The food culture of the East and the west is different, and the tableware used is also different. The food of the west is meat, so they use knives and forks. The main food of the Indians is rice, which can be boiled into a ball. The Indians are used to grasping it by hand. As a big country of food culture, China has a variety of tableware, and the most representative one is chopsticks.
Chopsticks and chopsticks are said to have existed as early as the Xia Yu period and can easily put any food into the mouth. But as a big country of etiquette and culture, there are many taboos about chopsticks on the table.
Three long, two short, three long and two short means that it is unlucky to put chopsticks with different lengths on the table before or during the meal. In China, three long and two short are related to death.
In the past, the Chinese believed that before the coffin was closed, the main components of the coffin included two shortboards at the front and back, three longboards at both sides and the bottom, which were just three longboards and two shortboards, so it was unlucky to put the chopsticks with different lengths together. Now, Chinese families generally buy a whole set of chopsticks.
Generally speaking, Chinese people take chopsticks with the index finger of the thumb on top, the small finger of the ring finger on the bottom, and the middle finger in the middle, which is an image of heaven, earth, and man, while the immortal points out the middle finger directly. Everyone knows that the straight middle finger means "scold the street". The other meaning is that you can't point chopsticks at others, which is not polite, so this way of holding chopsticks can't be Acceptable.
Chopsticks are often used to hold food and make a sound. Generally, there are food residues. People put chopsticks in their mouths to clean and then take food. In fact, it's not polite. Chopsticks make a sound, which is annoying. In the past, the behavior of chopsticks was regarded as a lack of family education.
We are all familiar with the practice of knocking cups and cups, that is, taking chopsticks to knock bowls and basins. This practice is regarded as the same as that of beggars. Beggars usually draw others' attention by knocking broken bowls. Therefore, this practice is also impolite behavior. The practice of knocking cups and holding cups and patrolling the city is to linger on the dishes with chopsticks, without knowing what to eat. This is a lack of education. It's bad behavior.
This method is to use a chopstick to insert the food in the dishes, which is considered to be a shame and impolite behavior to the dining staff at the same table. It's believed that everyone's parents will say this when eating at the table. Some people try to put chopsticks in the rice conveniently and conveniently. This kind of behavior is disrespectful. It's traditionally done by worshiping the dead. This is the most important point in the taboo of chopsticks etiquette. If you do this, the first thing is your parents' warning and beating.
Now people don't notice the cross of incense in public. The cross of chopsticks on the table means the negation to oneself or the person at the same table. In the past, only when you have a lawsuit confession can you make a cross, just like the wrong topic in the student's homework is crossed by the teacher, which is a negative meaning.
To dig a grave with chopsticks means to constantly pick and pull dishes with chopsticks to find the food you want, which is also a lack of education.
I believe you are familiar with this taboo.
This is to use chopsticks to put vegetables on your plate. When your hands are not clean, you will leave the soup in other dishes or on the table. This practice is regarded as serious disrespect, which is also undesirable. It means to turn the chopsticks upside down, which is very despised by people. It's also the so-called hunger and indiscriminate food so that the chopsticks are taken away reversely.
The meaning of falling to the ground is to drop chopsticks on the ground by accident. It was a serious act of disrespect before. The ancients believed that ancestors should not be disturbed when they were sleeping in the ground. The falling chopsticks made a noise, which means that they disturbed their ancestors and were unfilial, but they can also be recovered.
Once chopsticks fell to the ground, they should use the fallen chopsticks to sit on the ground according to their own direction. Draw across. The direction is East-West first, then north-south. It means that I am not something. I should not disturb my ancestors, and then pick up chopsticks.
Through the taboo of chopsticks, we can see the profound cultural accumulation of China. Chopsticks are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients. They pay attention to the heaven and the earth, the harmony of yin and Yang. There is faith in chopsticks, and every move is a concept, which shows the Chinese's understanding and wisdom. We hope that this kind of culture can be passed on from generation to generation.