Mix chopsticks Dagankun

As teachers and parents, we often educate our children to unite and help each other. And often use a more popular metaphor as the introduction of the conversation: "A chopstick is easy to fold, and the twisted hemp rope keeps pulling." Use it to enlighten children's understanding of unity and friendship.

Of course, a chopstick here refers to a person who is lonely and doomed to failure. Unity is strength, and only unity and cooperation can win.

But they may not know that the small chopsticks also contain the profound and long-standing traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which can be described as a small chopsticks.

Chopsticks have round ends and square ends. The circle is the sky, the square is the earth, and the sky is round. People eat food for the sky, so they should eat with chopsticks.

Since children begin to eat independently, adults should teach children to hold chopsticks correctly, which is earlier and more important than holding a pen. Hold chopsticks with thumb and forefinger on top, ring finger and little finger on the bottom and middle finger in the middle. This posture of holding chopsticks is similar to heaven, earth and people.

There are two chopsticks in a pair, and there are also questions from the university. It represents the idea that China people abide by Tai Chi and Yin and Yang. We use chopsticks, one is active, the other is passive, the active is yang, and the passive is yin. This is the image of two instruments, yin and yang are integrated into one, and both are indispensable.

Small chopsticks are still good gifts. Numerically, twelve pairs are a dozen. Twenty-four in a dozen, symbolizing twelve months of a year and twenty-four solar terms.

Judging from the materials used to make chopsticks, there are ordinary bamboo chopsticks, wooden chopsticks, metal copper chopsticks and silver chopsticks, as well as expensive mahogany chopsticks, ebony chopsticks and ivory chopsticks. The texture of chopsticks also shows a person's identity and status.

Chopsticks made of any material have a uniform length, 7 inches and 6 minutes. This size is a metaphor for secular desires. Seven emotions: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise. Six desires: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. This is human nature. Chopsticks have always been a symbol of equality, friendship, harmony and blind date. However, disposable chopsticks used in popular fast food on the market are an exception.

It has also become a custom to give chopsticks as gifts. Exquisite production and profound meaning. This is the man who sends people out to eat.

Send the newlyweds, symbolizing eternity and having a baby soon.

Send lovers in pairs and never part.

Send friends, be equal and friendly, and live in harmony.

Send the teacher, be honest and unyielding, and give without expecting anything in return.

Send the elderly, be happy forever and live a long life.

When sending children, chopsticks grow longer and faster.

Send foreign friends: China has a long history.

Abroad, especially in the west, foreigners are curious to see China people eating with chopsticks, but they don't know that small chopsticks also contain the long history and profound traditional culture of the Chinese nation. It's really small chopsticks!

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