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Chopsticks, who knows the origin of chopsticks, what are the allusions?

People in China used chopsticks about 3000 years ago. In fact, before using chopsticks, our ancestors also experienced a process of grasping food with their hands. But how did they get hot porridge soup? So I had to get some grass stalks and sticks to help. Chopsticks are the quintessence of China. They are light and flexible, and they are unique in tableware all over the world. They are praised as "oriental civilization" by westerners. The history of using chopsticks in China can be traced back to Shang Dynasty. There is a record in Historical Records that "there was an elephant chopstick at the beginning". It was called "chopsticks" in Qin and Han Dynasties. The ancients were very taboo. Because "chopsticks" and "ju" are homophonic, and "ju" means to stop, which is unlucky, so it is called "chopsticks" in turn. This is the origin of the name of chopsticks.

Chopsticks were collectively called "chopsticks" in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Chopsticks were called "chopsticks" or "chopsticks" in the pre-Qin period. Zheng Xuan commented: "Chopsticks are still good, but nowadays people call them' chopsticks'. When Sima Qian, a famous historian in the Han Dynasty, wrote Historical Records, Du Fu said in his poem "Two Ways": "The rhinoceros stick is tired of drinking for a long time, and the knife cuts empty silk. From the poems of two great poets, we know that "gold" and "encouragement" are very common in the Tang Dynasty. However, since the Tang Dynasty, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have all been called "mian".

But the name of chopsticks didn't stay in the end, and it changed in the Ming Dynasty. According to Lu Rong's Miscellaneous Notes on Gardens in Ming Dynasty, Wu vulgar boatmen dared not say that "living" was homophonic with "chopsticks", so they changed the word "chopsticks". Because the boat people and fishermen in Wuzhong are particularly afraid of "chopsticks", for the sake of good luck, Li Yuheng, a well-known person, said more clearly in "The Words of Pushing Peng": "Those who have taboo words in the world, such as Li Zhi, are called the quick ones. Today, because it has been circulating for a long time, even scholars call it Li Zhi's runner and forget its beginning. " Although some people called chopsticks "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty, Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty did not admit that people would soon add the bamboo prefix before the word "chopsticks". This can be proved by the fact that only chopsticks are included in Kangxi Dictionary. But it is hard for the emperor to resist the trend that people are afraid of taboos and like to draw lots orally. In the forty chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions,