What are the types of chopsticks?

Chopsticks can be categorized according to the material they are made of: traditional wooden chopsticks, bamboo chopsticks, plastic chopsticks, metal chopsticks, ivory chopsticks, ceramic chopsticks.

Chopsticks, which are commonly used as eating utensils in China, are usually made of bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic and other materials. It is one of the commonly used tableware in the world and one of the symbols of Chinese food culture, which was invented in China and later spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other cultural circles with Chinese characters.

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The Legend of Daji and Chopsticks

This legend is spread in the area of Wenxian, Boai, and its Encun in the Shanyang District of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. Legend has it that Shang Zhou was so temperamental that when he ate, he would either say that the fish was not fresh, or that the chicken soup was too hot, or sometimes that the dishes were too cold to be eaten.

On one occasion, Daji tasted a few bowls of delicacies too hot, but the exchange of hexagrams is too late, Daji in order to curry favor with King Zhou, remove the head of the long jade hairpin will Lei clamped up, blowing again and again, and so on, and then send some of the dishes cooled into the mouth of the King of Zhou. King Zhou thought it was a pleasure to be fed by Daji, so he asked Daji to do so every day.

Daji had two long jade hairpins specially made for her. Later, this way of holding food was spread to the people, and chopsticks were created. This legend is also inconsistent with historical facts. The steel chopsticks unearthed by archaeologists in the 1005th Yin Shang tomb in Houjiazhuang, Anyang, have been proved to date back to the time of King Zhou at the end of the Yin Dynasty, so it is clear that chopsticks were neither invented by King Zhou nor created by Daji.

Source of reference; Baidu Encyclopedia - Chopsticks