Where do chopsticks come from? And its name changes since ancient times

Chinese people have been using chopsticks for more than 3,000 years. In fact, before using chopsticks, our ancestors also went through a process of grabbing food with their hands. But how could they grab hot porridge and soup? So they had to break some grasses, stems and sticks to help them. Chopsticks are the national treasure of China. They are light and flexible, unique among the tableware of the world, and have been called "the civilization of the East" by Westerners. The use of chopsticks in China dates back to the Shang Dynasty. There is a record in the Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian) that "Chopsticks were first used by Zhou, the late Shang Dynasty monarch, which means that chopsticks have been used in China for at least 3,000 years. Chopsticks were called "挟" in the pre-Qin period and "箸" in the Qin and Han periods. Ancient people were very careful about taboos, and since "chopsticks" and the word "住" sound alike, and "住" means to stop, which is an unlucky word, they called them "chopsticks" instead of "chopsticks". "Chopsticks. This is the origin of the name "chopsticks".

Chopsticks were known as "chopsticks" in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Chopsticks were known by a variety of names in the pre-Qin period as "chopsticks", also known as "pods". Zheng Xuan commented: "Chopsticks are like chopsticks, and people today call chopsticks "chopsticks". When Sima Qian, the famous historian of the Han Dynasty, wrote the Records of the Grand Historian, he called the chopsticks used during the Shang Zhou period "chopsticks", which was written as "wooden chopsticks" in ancient times. The character "筋" (筋) appeared again in the two Han Dynasty. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Li Bai's poem "Hard to Walk" said: "I can't eat without stopping the cup and throwing my tendons"; and Du Fu's poem "Lillian's Journey" said: "Horned chopsticks are tired of drinking for a long time, and the helmet knife cuts and slices the empty strands of threads and spandex". From these two poets' lines, we know that in the Tang Dynasty, "筋" and "箸" were commonly used. However, since the Tang Dynasty, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are unified called "chopsticks" colorful stainless steel chopsticks

But the name of chopsticks, not to maintain the end, the Ming Dynasty has changed. Ming Lu Rong "beans garden miscellany" cloud: Wu vulgar boat people taboo, "live" and "chopsticks" resonance, so change "chopsticks for fast children". Because Wuzhong boat people and fishermen are especially jealous of "Chibashi", they are most afraid of the boat "live", the boat stops, the boat people will not have business, they are even more afraid of the boat "moth", the wooden boat "moth" leakage how to catch fish. Under the guidance of this superstitious harmonic ideas, so see the "chopsticks" the opposite called "fast son", for good luck. Ming Li Yu Heng in the "push peng awake language" said more clearly: "the world have taboo evil word and call for the beautiful word, such as the standing chopsticks taboo stagnation, call for the fast son. Nowadays, the word has been passed down for a long time, and even among the scholars, they also call chopsticks as "fast", forgetting its beginning. Although the Ming Dynasty had already called "chopsticks" "quick", the Kangxi Emperor did not recognize the word "chopsticks", which means "quick" with the prefix "bamboo". This is evidenced by the fact that the Kangxi Dictionary only includes "箸" but not "筷". However, the emperor could not resist the trend of the people who were afraid of breaking taboos and preferred to use the Chinese character "口彩". In the 40 episodes of Dream of the Red Chamber, in the paragraph where Jia Mu invites Liu Lou Lou to a banquet, Cao Xueqin calls chopsticks "chopsticks" in three places, "tendons" in two, and "chopsticks" in four. In today's society, the name "chopsticks" has been taken for granted, but experts and scholars still refer to chopsticks as "chopsticks" or "tendons" in their calligraphy, poems and articles, and do not "forget their beginnings" as stated in "Pui Peng Yiyu".