Chopsticks Origin Folk Tales About Chopsticks Introduction

China has 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 limit of using chopsticks is still uncertain, but at least 3,000 years of history, the dinner fork is still used until the Warring States period, the Warring States tomb in Luoyang, Henan Province, was unearthed bundled into a bundle of 51 dinner forks. After the Warring States period, the fork was probably obsolete, with fewer records and objects appearing. The division of labor between spoons and chopsticks was clear in the pre-Qin period: spoons were used for eating, and chopsticks were used to eat the food in the soup.

Chopsticks were called "_" in the pre-Qin era, "chopsticks" in the Han Dynasty, and "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty. Li Ji - Qu Li mentioned "soup with vegetables with _", "emergency on the chapter" said: "chopsticks, a _, so the clip food also", "Li Ji" Zheng Xuan note "_, like chopsticks also". The Yunxian Miscellany records that: "Xiangfan waiter, there are lacquer flower plate, Kodou chopsticks, fish-tailed spoon."

The Twenty-Second History of Confucianism and Forestry, "The one who went to the hall took a pair of chopsticks, two small dishes, and a dish of preserved pork." Shen Congwen (沈从文), "从文自传-我讀一本小书同时又讀一本大书"", "边街又有小饭店门前有一个大竹筒插满用竹子削成的筷子."

There are many folk legends about chopsticks, one says that Jiang Ziya was inspired by the bird to invent silk and bamboo chopsticks, one says that Daji invented chopsticks with jade hairpins to please King Zhou, and there is also a legend that Yu invented chopsticks when he was ruling over the water in order to save time and fetch hot food from tree branches. The length of ordinary chopsticks is about 22-24 centimeters. There are many artifacts of chopsticks that incorporate more traditional craftsmanship in their design, thus making them a collector's choice as well, and they are also popular with expatriates.

Ming Lu Rong "Beans Garden Miscellany" cloud: Wu common boat people said, "live" and "chopsticks" resonance, so change "chopsticks for the fastest child". Because Wuzhong boat people and fishermen are especially taboo "chopsticks", they are most afraid of the boat "live", the boat stops, the boat people will have no business, they are even more afraid of the boat "moth", the wooden boat "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth", "moth". "How to catch fish if the wooden boat is leaking. In this superstition under the guidance of the idea of harmony, so see the "chopsticks" in the opposite way called "fast son", for good luck. Ming Li Yu Heng in the "Push the Peng awake language" said more clearly: "the world has a taboo evil word and call for the word of the United States, such as standing chopsticks taboo stagnation, call for the fast son. Today, because of the circulation has been a long time, to the scholars also called the chopsticks for the fast son of the people, forget its beginning." Although the Ming Dynasty has been called "chopsticks" for "fast", but the Qing Kangxi did not recognize the folk will be fast with the bamboo character "chopsticks". This can be evidenced by the fact that the Kangxi Dictionary only includes "箸" and not "chopsticks". However, the emperor could not resist the trend of the people's fear of taboos, like mouth color.

Today's society, the name of chopsticks has been taken for granted, but experts and scholars still call chopsticks chopsticks or _____ in calligraphy, poetry and articles, and have not "forgotten their beginnings", as the "Push Pong Yiyu Language" says.