Use of chopsticks Country

Chinese in China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Singapore and Malaysia

Chinese in China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Singapore and Malaysia use chopsticks as their daily eating utensils. Other countries eating tools are roughly divided into two kinds, the use of knives, forks and spoons of the Western food system of Europe, America and Latin America countries; the use of hand-held rice countries, including Africa, West Asia, India, Southeast Asia in addition to Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia Chinese all the countries.

Nowadays, human eating tools in the world are mainly divided into 3 categories: Europe and North America use knives, forks and spoons, and all three utensils are used in one meal; China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and North Korea use chopsticks; and Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent use fingers to grab food. China is the birthplace of chopsticks and has been eating with chopsticks for 3,000 years, making it the mother country of chopsticks.

Extended information:

Chinese people have been using cutlery for a long time. The history of using spoons is about 8,000 years, the history of using forks is about 4,000 years, the upper time limit of using chopsticks is uncertain, but it has at least 3,000 years of history, and dinner forks were still used until the Warring States period, and 51 dinner forks bundled together were unearthed in a Warring States tomb in Luoyang, Henan Province.

After the Warring States period, the fork may have been phased out, with fewer records and objects appearing. Spoons and chopsticks had a clear division of labor during the pre-Qin period, with spoons used for eating and chopsticks used to eat the food in the spoon.

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