Why, of all the shapes out there, did humans use a round shape for their bowls?

Because in the thousands of years of human evolution, people feel that round bowls can hold more food, more convenient to use, cleaning and stacking time is also easier, and the family sits together to eat, round bowls can also symbolize the meaning of the reunion, has a particularly good good luck, so people like to use the round to make bowls.

Other shapes of bowls are also available

Of course, not all bowls are round, but round rice bowls and vegetable bowls occupy the vast majority of people generally like to use round bowls. Quadrangular bowls, rectangular bowls can often be seen in life, especially some of the dishes, many people use a quadrangular dish, as well as the installation of braised fish, steamed fish dish, generally are oval or rectangular, there are some people in order to look pleasing to the eye, installed braised fish dish is a fish-shaped dish.

Symbol of reunion and success

In our traditional culture, round things often symbolize the meaning of reunion and life is complete, such as we eat soup dumplings, oil tofu, meatballs, and many other foods are on behalf of the meaning of family reunion. We usually use the vast majority of bowls are round, inside with this cultural heritage, especially rice bowls and dishes and plates as a family meal tableware, can be more linked to the meaning of the family sitting together in a reunion dinner, so with round bowls is not only convenient, but also has a very deep cultural connotations and sources.

More convenient to use

Round bowls than quadrangular, polygonal bowls more convenient to use, the factory in the firing of ceramic bowls is also easier to save a lot of cost; compared to the four side of the bowl round bowls are not so easy to touch the bad, loaded with food when the cattle more than a number of, especially in the cleaning and stacked together, the round bowls also appear to be more easy to clean, in the stacked to save more space, it is the cultural connotations and convenience on the round bowl. It is the cultural connotation and convenience of the advantages, so that the round bowl has become the mainstream of the people with the bowl.