Chopsticks knowledge and connotation

Chopsticks knowledge and connotation

Chopsticks knowledge and connotation, chopsticks is the essence of traditional Chinese culture, daily life in the diet often use chopsticks, there are many styles of chopsticks on the market, about chopsticks knowledge do you know? Here is the knowledge and connotation of chopsticks.

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The origin of chopsticks

Westerners were the first nomadic people, the food is baked and boiled pieces of meat, can be cut into small pieces to take in the hands of eating. The main food of Indians is rice, easy to shell, can be steamed into a ball, the same can be grasped in the hand is to eat. The daily food of our ancestors was tea, a sticky, semi-liquid food that could not be grasped and eaten with the hands, nor could it be fished with the hands to affect the wild vegetables and leaves in it. It is possible that a clever ancient person took a small wooden stick or something to try to pluck the wild vegetables or leaves into the mouth, and this is the original form of chopsticks.

The Connotation of Chopsticks

When chopsticks are used, it is all about cooperation and coordination. One moves and one doesn't in order to hold it steady. If both move, or both don't move, you can't hold it. This is the Chinese principle of yin and yang, but also the principle of leverage in Western mechanics.

From rusty to skillful, from take to put down, this is a kind of influence, this is a kind of teaching by example, this is a kind of Chinese people can not be cut off feelings. As Chinese, we should understand the meaning of a pair of chopsticks.

Chopsticks taboos

1, knocking chopsticks: When I was a child, adults often warned: knocking the bowl knocking chopsticks, a lifetime of poverty. This is how Chinese parents have passed down the taboo of using chopsticks from one generation to the next. The reason is that hitting the dishes with chopsticks is a traditional action used by beggars in the past.

2, inspecting the chopsticks: avoid holding up the chopsticks uncertainty, chopsticks back and forth on the table in the dish to find, do not know where to get off the chopsticks as well.

3, tasting chopsticks: some people are used to licking the rice stuck on the chopsticks with their tongues, which is an extremely unhygienic and unsightly behavior,

4, sipping chopsticks: the practice is to put the chopsticks 'end in the mouth, sip with the mouth back and forth, and from time to time issued a sizzling sound. This behavior is considered to be an extremely bad practice, and generally this practice is considered to be a lack of discipline.

5, pointing chopsticks: you can not take the chopsticks to point to people, using chopsticks to point to people, is a very rude behavior, will be mistaken for accusing each other

6, stabbing chopsticks: can not pinch the dish with chopsticks as a fork, chopsticks inserted to take the food in the plate.

7. Shaking chopsticks: When using chopsticks to pick up food on your own plate, your hands are not sharp enough and you spill the soup onto other dishes or the table. This is considered a serious breach of etiquette.

8, fascinated chopsticks: avoid using chopsticks in the plate to pull the food; this behavior is a lack of cultivation, and no one is extremely offensive.

9, miscellaneous chopsticks: the color, material or length of the chopsticks handed to the guests, will be considered a great disrespect to the guests.

10. Sacrificial chopsticks: It is taboo to insert chopsticks into the rice, which is considered as a great disrespect, as the Han tradition is to insert a pair of chopsticks into the rice only when you offer incense to the deceased.

11, forked chopsticks: during the meal will be chopsticks casually cross on the table this is not right, people think at the table to play the fork, is to the other people at the table all the negatives.

12, drop chopsticks: lost hand will drop chopsticks on the ground, this is a serious breach of etiquette a performance, all the ancestors long sleep in the ground, should not be disturbed, chopsticks on the ground is the same as disturbing the ancestors underground, which is a great unfiliality.

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About the origin of chopsticks

Legend 1: Great Yu invented chopsticks

During the era of Shun, flooding greatly affected people's production and life, and so Yu was ordered to manage the flooding. In order to clear the floods, Yu went through his house three times, fearing that he would be delayed for a minute or two. On one occasion, Yu was cooking meat on an island, and when the meat was cooked, it was too hot to be eaten with his hands because it was too hot to be eaten in the boiling water.

Yu was in a hurry because he had a lot of work to do before the flood, and he couldn't afford to waste time waiting for the meat and water to cool down. Suddenly, he had an idea and cut down two branches to clip the meat out and blow two mouthfuls on it.

From then on, in order to save time, Yu always ate with the two sharpened branches, and over time, he became more and more skillful in the use of the two branches. Other people saw Yu eat this way is not hot, but also cooled quickly, and will not get his hands greasy, began to imitate his method, which is the first prototype of chopsticks chopsticks. Although the legend is not true history, but because of the cooked food is hot, chopsticks due to the emergence of transportation, which is in line with the law of development of human life.

"Rituals" Zheng note cloud "to earth coated creatures, cannon and eat". This is the grain wrapped in leaves, paste mud in the fire roasted. Some experts believe that this roasted food method also promotes the formation of chopsticks. When the pioneers to wrap the mud coated grains in the ashes of the fire when baked, in order to make it cooked evenly, and constantly with a branch toggle, our clever ancestors is also in the process of dialing the primitive popcorn to get inspired, over time, the prototype of chopsticks and chopsticks gradually appeared in the hands of the pioneers.

This is, of course, speculation, because there was no writing at the end of the Neolithic period and into the Xia Yu era, when the invention of chopsticks could not be documented, but these speculations by dietary experts are not without scientific merit.

Legend 2: Daji invented chopsticks

King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, tyrannical, all day drinking and especially fussy, always said that this dish is too cold, that meat is too hot, many cooks so lost their lives. Although Daji is King Yue's favorite, but King Yue's anger will still be slightly afraid, so, every time in King Yue's dinner before tasting whether it is suitable for the mouth.

Once, Daji felt that the food was a little hot, but King Yue could not delay his meal time, and in a hurry, she took a jade hairpin from her head and blew it up to cool the food and put it in King Yue's mouth. King Zhou was so pleased that he considered it a pleasure to eat that he had a craftsman make two long jade chopsticks and had Daji feed him every day. Later this way of eating spread to the people and became popular.

In the Historical Records of the Grand Historian (史记-微子世家), there is a record of "Zhou began to have elephant chopsticks", but according to the steel chopsticks found by archaeologists in the tomb of the Yinshang Shang at Houjiazhuang 1005 in Anyang, the age of these chopsticks has been proven to be earlier than the time of King Zhou.

This legend, unlike the first legend is full of mythological colors, and closer to life, there are some practical significance, but still rich in legend, but also inconsistent with historical facts. The steel chopsticks excavated by archaeologists in the 1005th Yinshang tomb in Houjiazhuang, Anyang, were proved to be older than King Zhou's era at the end of the Yin dynasty, and it is clear that chopsticks were not invented by King Zhou, nor were they created by Daji, but should have been a product of a much earlier time.

Legend 3: Jiang Ziya invented chopsticks

Jiang Ziya fishing, with a straight hook, and in addition to the straight hook fishing other things do not know, living in poverty, his wife had evil thoughts, want to kill him and then married someone else. How can you catch fish with a straight hook?

One day, Jiang Ziya returned home empty-handed as usual, but his wife was more gentle than before: "You're hungry, right? I made meat for you, eat it while it's hot." Jiang Ziya reached out to grab the meat and couldn't wait, when suddenly a bird flew from the window and pecked him. He screamed out in pain, got up and chased the bird away, then went to get the meat again to eat it when the bird flew over and pecked him again on the back of his hand.

Jiang Ziya thought to himself: "Why does this bird peck me as soon as it sees me with meat? Doesn't it let me eat meat? So he tentatively picked up the meat again, and the bird flew over and pecked him again. Jiang Ziya understood that this is a god bird, so pretended to chase the bird, and the bird ran out with the bird, the bird landed in no one half of the slope of a silk bamboo, actually sang in a human voice: "Jiang Ziya ah Jiang Ziya, eat meat not to grasp with your hands, clip the meat at my feet ~ ~" Jiang Ziya heard, thought about it, picked two silk bamboo home.

Back at home, his wife urged him to eat meat, Jiang Ziya put two silk bamboo in the hand to clip the meat, and suddenly saw the silk bamboo hissed up a smoke. Jiang Ziya asked, "How can this meat smoke? Is it poisonous?" Said the side clip up a piece of meat to the wife's mouth, the wife fled out the door in fear. Jiang Ziya knew that this was a sacred bamboo sent by a divine bird, and from then on, he used two silk bamboos for every meal. After this incident spread, the neighbors also began to learn to use silk bamboo to eat, chopsticks are so generations down.

This legend is obviously a product of the worship of Jiang Ziya, and is not consistent with historical records.

Ivory chopsticks already existed in the time of King Zhou of Yin, and Jiang Ziya and King Zhou of Yin were contemporaries. Since King Zhou already used ivory chopsticks, Jiang Ziya's silk bamboo chopsticks were not an invention. But one thing is true, that is, the Shang Dynasty folk use bamboo as chopsticks.

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What are the meanings of chopsticks

Chopsticks harmonize with "fast". It means "Happy, happy, happy for life".

Traditional Chinese chopsticks. It means "the sky is round, the sky is long".

Give chopsticks to the wedding couple. Moral: pairing up, merging into one, giving birth to a son soon.

Give chopsticks to the person who moves to a new house. The symbolism is: make a fortune quickly, happy housewarming.

Give chopsticks to your partner. Meaning: cooperation without competing for credit, indicating the significance of sincere cooperation.

Give chopsticks to a good friend. It means: to make a forest out of two trees, to share the same pain, to make good things come true, to get along with each other, to care for each other's lives.

Give chopsticks to a child. Moral: to express the expectation of "fast growth".

Give chopsticks to the elderly. Moral: Long life, happiness, well-being and longevity.

Different symbols according to the number

One pair: a lifetime of peace, a group of togetherness

Two pairs: two love, pairs of pairs

Three pairs: three goats, happy family

Four pairs: four seasons of peace, four seasons of wealth

Five pairs: five pairs of five blessings Moral: Send to the newlyweds to express the preciousness and permanence of marriage.

Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Symbol: represents the Chinese national temperament and gentleman style.

Lion pattern. Moral: to make everything go well, to ward off evil spirits and to keep the house in order.

Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea. Moral: Auspiciousness, wisdom and success and success.

Shell pattern. Moral: Cohesion of finances, favorable to positive wealth and career.

Fish pattern. Meaning: a smooth step forward; good prospects; year after year, wealth and prosperity; gold and jade, auspicious celebrations.

Five Fortunes. Meaning: fortune, wealth, life, happiness and fortune.

Magpie pattern. Meaning: magpies ascend to the plum tree, joyful and happy.