What does it mean to break chopsticks

In the face of this troubling and puzzling problem, I really don't know how to explain it to my children's children. I just rely on years of traditional patriotic education, and therefore almost paranoid confidence, with five thousand years of civilization history of China must have a kind of four ancient inventions, superior to the origins of civilization of foreign countries and foreign countries of the creation of things. Otherwise, why in the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the southeastern part of the Asian continent can be born and reproduced the most massive one of the human race. The survival of the fittest. Adapted to the survival and development of this great group of strength and wisdom to what carrier, for what inheritance?

Following the first survival needs of the living entity, tracing this country that advocates food for the people, since the ancestors of Huazhong Han ancestors since they knew how to slash and burn and change the primitive habits of drinking blood, and turn to the fire to get chestnuts and soup to get some kind of food when the need. Due to the high temperature of the flame and hot soup does not allow to follow the habit of reaching out and pinching, so there is a finger alternative to an arrow, a spear or a tree branch. Obviously, a single arrow only has the function of sticking and picking, which is far less convenient than holding it with two fingers. The forefathers of the most simple thinking already know the dexterity of the thumb can be extended by two branches, not to mention the forefathers of the hunting and labor skills have been exercised to the use of fingers, will be two twigs pinched in the hands of the best insertion of the Zhanzha through the selection of the folder, fishing, grilling, mixing, stirring and pulling of the ability to pass the feed, broadcasting and scooping, frying rolls, baking and deep-frying, it is really eighteen kinds of food can be handled with ease. It can be inferred from this that the first invention of the ancestors of Huahan was born. The reason why it is called an invention is that chopsticks fully comply with the three laws of invention today: novelty, creativity, practicality, and also has an abundant supply of raw materials available for processing and mass production. Therefore, it can be further asserted that, in addition to the invention of bows and arrows, spears and certain agricultural tools, chopsticks were the first daily necessities of our ancestors. With the popularization and mass use of chopsticks, the materials used to make chopsticks gradually evolved into tree branches, wooden sticks, bamboo sticks, bamboo strips, bone strips and tooth strips. The shape and length of the chopsticks were also gradually standardized. Its length is due to the primitive tribes and the custom of gathering around the food utensils, which must have a certain length in order to be able to reach out and clip the food. And this length must be convenient for the wrist in the food utensils and mouth between the radius of activity, the radius of the arm movement is also subject to the wrist bone to the elbow bone of the two pivot points of the constraints, so the length of the arm has become the length of the chopsticks standard. This insight is very important. Is the concept of length of the ancestors really related to chopsticks? As a matter of fact, primitive people's initial recognition of distance and length was often based on the principle of ergonomics, using the self as a yardstick, including the fist, fingers, stride, and extended to the range of spears and arrows, but this kind of method is obviously not as convenient as chopsticks. The creation of chopsticks not only established the custom of gathering around a table, but also determined the diameter and width of the square and round tables used for gathering, based on the length of the chopsticks plus the arm as the radius, and the length of the perimeter of the table and the convention of the number of diners in the space. Eventually, chopsticks became the original unit of length, with one city foot being equal to the length of a small arm plus a fist, and the original chopsticks were much the same. It is only due to the easy bending of wood and bamboo chopsticks, and the development of residential and food utensils that people gradually moved from the field to the indoor, food table and food utensils chopsticks gradually short and delicate. As for the chopsticks of the shape of the upper and lower round, probably with the ancestor revered heaven and earth square and round said related. Since the sky is round and the earth is in China, it is only natural to grasp the square and the circle in the palm of the hand. Interestingly, many concepts and primitive hierarchies among clans and tribes are also reflected in chopsticks, which are made according to the quality of the bone and bamboo and the difficulty of making them, and according to the length of the chopsticks, the thickness of the chopsticks, and the different decorations intentionally made to determine the hierarchies of the chopstick wielders and their status as elders and youngsters. In order to meet the needs of a traditional ceremonial state, chopsticks have evolved into gifts, offerings and sacrifices. When offering three animals and five grains to the gods, chopsticks were inserted into the offerings. In order to determine the hour of worship, some people lit vertical wooden and bamboo chopsticks for timing purposes. Then found a certain kind of wood made of chopsticks will emit a fragrance after ignition, or the formation of ghostly fire, seems to be able to play a mosquitoes and flies and insects and ants and drive away the role of the hungry ghosts and ghosts, and more added to the mystery of the ceremony. Solid and the initial burning incense and candles, until the later know how to stick in the chopsticks wrapped in spices and paraffin wax, there are candles and incense came out, but its carrier is still the root of the chopsticks.

Chopsticks are really wonderful, is because the ancestors gave it a huge plasticity, and it in turn inspired the creativity of compatriots. Because the primitive tribal people to develop production at the same time, but also in the creation of civilization and culture, chopsticks play an irreplaceable role. While chopsticks became the unit of length, people paid equal attention to quantity and number. How to record the fruits of labor? Before the birth of the number, people began to chopsticks as chips, one, two, three Χ positive progressive and code method came into being, but when the number of progressive need to use too many chopsticks, in order to facilitate the replacement of the system and thus the length of the thickness of the system, ten short for a long, ten long for a thick, decimal system of mathematics is thus formed. The initial creation of the square numbers is the uneven length of the chopsticks, plus the curved and the length of the chopsticks left over the head and tail, based on the formation of the horizontal and vertical hooks and folds the number of points of the prototype. Ancient Chinese characters created with the symbolism and the syncretism of chopsticks inevitably formed a square character pattern, because the hard pen, which is the tool for character creation and writing, was originally a chopstick picked up by the hand. While the wood, bamboo, tooth and bone brushes were used for sketching on the floor, desktop and walls, it was found to be useful to tie feathers and animal hairs at the end of the brushes, and to use pigments extracted from plants and minerals, or the original earth-colored blood of the beasts. Among the chopsticks, the bamboo chopsticks were the easiest to fill with feathers in the empty tube at one end, and the use of a large number of writing and drawing tools gave rise to calligraphy and painting, as well as the colors and patterns that covered the clothing and ornaments of houses and altars. Attached to the chopsticks brush on the chipping scraping painting branding carving all kinds of crafts, but also attached to the bones of the bells and pots of rock and jade walls above the temple. Appropriate rituals and sacrifices to the needs of the war, long in the metaphysics and Taoism ancestor of the altar for the establishment of the ground, scratching the ground for the square and circle yin and yang curvature, set up a chopsticks for the dance for divination and trigrams, and the dance will be a long short dance around the center of the yin and yang fish for the yin and yang of the lines, which was the first to ivory for the chopsticks of the king of zhou was not expected. In fact, chopsticks were initially called "chopsticks", but because of their similarity to "live", they were changed to "chopsticks" with the meaning of "fast". They were called "chopsticks" because it was taboo to say that the sound was close to "live", and then they were changed to mean "fast" and called "chopsticks". It was the extraordinary pair of chopsticks that reinforced the concept of finger extension and pinching, leading to the derivation of objects such as fire tongs and scissors. The arrangement of chopsticks in horizontal and vertical lines, from small to large, from short to long, made the ancestors who lived in the bird's nest in the cave realize the composition and function of the pillar, purlin and fence cage, Lu Ban's ancestor used chopsticks to demonstrate the first horizontal shape of the ancient Chinese architecture, and the chopsticks are arranged in the ancient temples, pagodas and palaces in the same way today, either in a strict and orderly manner, or in an orderly manner or in an intertwined manner, and of course, the bird's cages and the prison cage also belongs to the chopsticks' creation. This reminds us of the simultaneous evolution of the Western nations, the same with a pair of hands, but holding the knife and fork, the different rules of taking food and eating extended into different styles of culture and philosophy. The left knife and right fork are lined up in a row and even become a long dining table. Without the pleasure of chopsticks, the creation of characters is due to the change of sign language and fingers, and writing is made possible by a feather. As for building houses, whether Gothic Roman style is nothing more than a pile of stones, it is true that the spirit and flavor of chopsticks is missing. Until the development of civilization experienced thousands of years of Europe and the United States guests, but to enjoy the wonderful Chinese cooking, all from chopsticks to learn. And then only to understand the most civilized beauty of the feast of all mankind is by no means a stream of dancing knife and fork, the clever use of two fine chopsticks, at will for relative motion, visible "Yan Huang Stan" of the original relative law thousands of years earlier than the Westerners.

It is not just the primitive relative law, the Chinese people just from a pair of chopsticks in the sense of too many things, and thus the formation of the Chinese people unique chopsticks emotions and chopsticks philosophy. It is no exaggeration to say that throughout the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, there is nothing greater than the invention of chopsticks. If I describe chopsticks as a carrier of emotions and cultural heritage, and portray them as the "first invention" of ancient China, will anyone criticize me for being shallow and biased? Yes, since one day more than ten years ago, when I was starving and biting my chopsticks as if I were a man of Qiyan, I had a sudden epiphany and immediately clutched the chopsticks that I had bitten off, and the maniac who had this idea couldn't help but hold the broken chopsticks as if they were the most valuable thing I had ever seen. Yes, the broken chopsticks made me think of two fables about chopsticks. One of them is: before the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the righteous generals from all over the world gathered to elect their leaders. A certain general immediately ordered all the people to pick up the chopsticks on the dining table and fold them, and they were broken. The general again made a handful of chopsticks clutched in his hand and even folded without stopping, so he explained to the crowd to hold unity to help the reasoning. The people were convinced to submit to him, and he was elected King Wu of Zhou, and the Shang Dynasty was destroyed in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The second is: in ancient times, a large family because of the large population, often due to uneven food and trouble. For this reason, the parents made three-foot-long bamboo chopsticks and ordered their family members to eat with them. However, the long chopsticks could not feed themselves, so they could only take food and feed it to the people at the other table. The parents then explained the family rules of "If you want to take something, you have to give it to them first" and "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you", which made the incident go away. "Chopsticks are so extraordinary, I should be chopsticks for the speech and biography, for the ancestors to set up a code and monument! After all, it was only after forty years of eating with these unusual and extraordinary chopsticks that I realized the virtue of putting chopsticks in the hands of my compatriots to think of their relatives during festivals. It turns out that people are like chopsticks, and the chopsticks that are set up are the word "human". ......" wrote a paragraph that seems to be a heavenly conversation, and the pen is more surging with endless thoughts.

Lo's Story--Chopsticks Mood

The first pair of Chinese chopsticks began in what year and generation, invented in what family and who, are no longer available. Limited to the knowledge and supporting evidence, the author can only make up the history of chopsticks in the way of a pie-in-the-sky story. Despite more than ten years of research and exploration, I have written and published several articles about chopsticks. In particular, the signed article "Philosophical Reflections on Artistic Neo-Expressionism" published in the Scholars' Forum section of China Reform Newspaper on July 16th, 1998; "Harrow's Lecture on Neo-Expressionism" given at the Capital University in October 1996; and "Lectures on Neo-Expressionism" published in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China on December 23rd, 2000, were all published in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The front-page article, "The First Publication--Chopsticks and Their Philosophy," published on December 23, 2000, in the Science Times, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and run by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, attracted a lot of attention. In accordance with the principle of self-responsibility, I resolutely and bravely took up the responsibility of the chopstick doctrine of Luo, and took great pains to treat chopsticks, which my compatriots bite and chew and stretch and shrink, as the object and topic of research. I know that there is a lack of historical data and supporting evidence, but I want to assert the myths of chopsticks on the basis of conjecture, even though this inference has great rationality, but its academic value is inevitably questionable. Therefore, I would rather hope that the people who penned the counter-evidence to analyze or **** with the discussion, or else I have to allow the author to continue to speak at length in the "Luo's Story" chapter. The "chopstick complex" and what is it?

Not to mention the long history of "thinking of relatives with chopsticks". Before the New Year's Eve dinner, parents would always put chopsticks on the delicious food and invite their grandparents to enjoy it. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, parents often put chopsticks next to the empty wine goblets of the absentees to remember them. The first lesson a young child learns is how to hold the chopsticks and the family tradition of keeping the chopsticks close to the food. I still remember the first time in my life when my father hit me in the head because I was holding the chopsticks in front of the food, and I heard two chopsticks clicking on my big head. When I first learned to write, I used chopsticks to scribble Chinese characters on a stone to save paper and pencil, just like my father did. My mother also taught me a childhood fable: "One chopstick is easy to break, but a pair of chopsticks cannot be bent. My mother was not only knowledgeable, but she was also good at weaving and glass painting. The bamboo needles she used to knit the brown beds and rattan chairs were made from bamboo chopsticks, and her sons' sweaters were knit from bamboo chopsticks, and later on, I did the same thing by whittling chopsticks down to short lengths, stringing them together with a bunch of wooden beads, and making my first abacus after I was a child in the school. I think that when my ancestors invented the first abacus, they probably used chopsticks to string beads. After that, I used chopsticks wrapped in cloth, made of children used in water fights in the bamboo water piston rod, but also cut into the erhu **** sound cylinder on the small size of the piano, or cut into a small kite on the thin keel. But without consulting his mother, he stole a small set of chopsticks and cut his hand with a kitchen knife while sharpening the keel. Mom picked up the chopsticks to hit her son's palm, then saw the cuts and blood on her fingers, and was so sad that she burst into tears. Yes, the chopsticks are important to her son. She did not say a word, bought back a bamboo, with her young working hands peeled candle wicks cut open the bamboo, peeled a large handful of bamboo chopsticks and kite keel. "Doing it yourself is better than anything. Chopsticks are too short for bamboo to be long enough, it's called something is short as well as something is long. ......" Listening to the mother's training, we have come to realize, because I have seen the chopsticks, and even more so, I have seen the bamboo forest. Known as the hometown of China's bamboo, Hunan Yiyang, there are hundreds of acres of bamboo forests, bamboo chopsticks with bamboo, bamboo mats and bamboo curtains are also produced into famous bamboo crafts at home and abroad. Large bamboo buildings bamboo walls bamboo beds, small bamboo stools bamboo cages bamboo spoons, so that the people of the bamboo countryside for generations. By the time I completed my primary education, just in time for the local government to explore the inheritance of thousands of years of bamboo craft and approved bamboo art factory to recruit apprentices, less than 14 years old I have art and carving foundation, was admitted to the factory to learn the art. The first lesson was, of course, about the tradition of bamboo art, which was taught by a skillful teacher. "You know, these bamboo utensils were originally passed down from my master's teacher's old teacher, who was the master in the end who can't say, but the first product was chopsticks, and legend has it that Yiyang is still the birthplace of bamboo chopsticks!" The words are good for the ears. At least I saw with my own eyes that the first bamboo chopstick machine in the country was born in the factory here, and the quality and efficiency of the work simply staggered and amazed the craftsmen who worked by hand. As I watched the carving machines, branding machines and so on, and as I watched the carvings and patterns on the ends of the chopsticks, and as I watched the pairs of gift chopsticks being sealed into beautifully packaged boxes, I could feel more and more what kind of emotion the workers were giving to the chopsticks through their hard work and selflessness, night and day. It was not until one year and one month that I learned that the words "Made in China" had been added to the box of chopsticks, that I learned that in addition to the overseas Chinese in the neighboring countries, there are many foreigners who love chopsticks and Chinese food. Because in their view, chopsticks are a special bond of the Chinese people, and also the traditional culture of the Chinese people. So in Japan, Korea and Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, chopsticks abound, people who use chopsticks to enjoy Chinese food with each other always a little more good sense.

Chopsticks are indeed incredible. A great ethnic group that makes up a quarter of the world's population has been using them for thousands of years. I think its appearance is not as rich and luxurious as gold bottles, jade hairpins, silver plates and porcelain bowls, and its value is far less than that of the matching rituals, sacrificial vessels, decorative vessels, as rare and expensive as the food, but people do not distinguish between inferiority and superiority of the eldest and youngest in the chopsticks in front of the always seem to be equal. Especially in terms of their practicality, they are incomparable to most everyday objects. However, chopsticks are chopsticks, and despite the fact that so many things have been created because of its existence, and despite the fact that its function affects the dietary survival of millions of people, it rests on its name and status, playing an extremely unusual role. To this day, no one even regarded it as a major invention of ancient China, and even fewer people from the process of its birth and development to interpret it for the Chinese civilization has had what a great contribution.

Are chopsticks just chopsticks? If the author's analysis of chopsticks is valid, the pragmatic principles and idealistic thinking inspired by chopsticks have undoubtedly been projected on the spiritual level of the Chinese people over such a long period of history, and have influenced their thinking and emotions to some extent. And because of this influence over generations, it has in turn led to a certain humanistic connotation being attached to chopsticks. Just like the Chinese zodiac, which gives personality to dozens of animals, the Chinese people also give personality to the imaginary dragons and phoenixes, the vermilion bird, the unicorn, and so on. Since human beings can compare themselves with many Chinese zodiac signs for self-examination, they can also compare themselves with many of their own creations. In fact, the four great inventions, the four minor inventions, the four national treasures were once the most proud of the people of China, and they have been using these creations to view themselves, and thus to enhance their self-image and self-personality. Just because for a long time will be the national essence of the elevated to the height of the inappropriate, once in these areas in the face of the later to come up to the West, most people will immediately lose a sense of honor and self-esteem, a few people are even terrified of self-importance, a change in the past the only one who is the only one of that appearance. Precisely at this time, chopsticks are not humble to stand up the spine, not only the pillar of the Chinese people's nerves, but also like Archimedes depicted that lever, showing that it is enough to pry the power of the earth. Is not it, who can roughly calculate a billion million people of a large country, how many tons of food during the past few thousand years swallowed, I am sure that this astronomically heavy food is not enough to compare with the earth. The miracle lies in the fact that such heavy food, originally only two pocket-sized levers can easily be taken into the mouth. This is chopstick-style logical thinking, originating from the chopstick complex, but inspired into an unspeakable spirit of innovation and creativity. No wonder Cangjie to take the chopsticks will be over to the composition of the word, no wonder Laozi to take the chopsticks will be over to make lines for the trigrams, if the current generation will not take the chopsticks will be carefully built, it can afford to feed him to feed him this pair of chopsticks, can afford to make his mouth and tongue for the spirit of a revitalization of the Chinese chopsticks? At least "Luo's Story", like the words of the chopsticks man, tells the truth of many of them. I would like to ask myself what it is like to eat with chopsticks! Just advise you to pay some attention, do not wolf down like eating chopsticks, the two straight lines will not turn with the stomach and intestines.

Chopstick Philosophy

When the new phrase "chopstick philosophy", alienated from the Jingyuan system, first appeared on the good white paper, this pen has fulfilled the right to comment and defend. What an honor for the author to write a philosophical article to pass on the pair of chopsticks that have been handed down by the Chinese people since ancient times. I would like to write about the culture of chopsticks, the chopstick complex, as my ancestors first sacrificed to the gods by sticking chopsticks all over the three animals, but now I can stick chopsticks all over my flesh and I would rather enshrine myself in the sacred temple of philosophy.

No one dares to offend and desecrate the philosophers. I realize that naming philosophy after chopsticks does raise the specter of disrespect. Because everyone knows that chopsticks are just two straight lines, if you abstract them from their complicated functions, are they still so mysterious and unpredictable? The answer is yes. As the saying goes, the simpler things are, the more often they are rich in extremely difficult truths, and the profound mystery of chopsticks lies between these two straight lines. The author has been facing these two straight lines year after year, trying to discover and summarize the exact definition of the chopstick philosophy. "Facing the two chopsticks invented by the ancient Chinese, I extracted two abstract and complementary straight lines from their complex material and functional appearances. Based on their parallel or cross arrangement in relative motion, they are presented with philosophical meanings, i.e.: 1) the unity of opposites between man and objects in motion; 2) the connection between a set of geometric lines and the interaction with the surrounding things; 3) the interpretation of the ancient ethics of virtue and the chopstick complex; 4) the aesthetic modeling of utility and the formation of the golden section point; 5) the application of the principle of leverage in ergonomics and mechanics; 6, Chinese ancient counting number of concepts and the inference of the formation of Chinese characters; 7, two straight lines lead to the significance of image thinking and innovative thinking; 8, chopsticks cultural allegory of idealism and pragmatism of the scope of the study. These eight topics constitute the novelty, potentiality, intersectionality and applicability of the research field covered by the philosophy of chopsticks; they form the material attributes, practical values, cultural connotations, and conceptual qualities of the special positioning of chopsticks, which is the "first invention" in ancient China; thus, they determine the research direction and purpose of this philosophical proposition. --To comprehensively prove that the first great invention of chopsticks is the evidence and inheritance of 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, to comprehensively discuss the philosophy of chopsticks and carry forward the spirit of innovation and nationalism symbolized by chopstick culture, which is a national treasure, and to build a brand and a weapon for the promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the creation of a thousand years of prosperity in the motherland. Because more than ever, China needs a special brand that symbolizes both spiritual and material civilization, and a special weapon that invigorates the spirit of the nation and the spirit of the times. "I had to write down such a long and heavy "definition". The good thing is that no one commissioned the author to draft a new eight-legged dogma in textbooks, and I have no reason to cut off the teachings of chopstick philosophy for the sake of brevity. Not to mention that the author in order to explore this definition, so far has spent a full 15 years of effort, really is the "pen ten thousand words, blood fifteen spring", has not yet been written, I would like to be touched by their own painstaking efforts.

It's not just about being touched or mesmerized, my whole spirit and flesh are trembling from the heart for this definition. Just the fact that we Chinese have invented and own these chopsticks is enough to show the greatness of China. Can any outsider surpass the Creator of Chinese chopsticks like the "Four Great Inventions"? In terms of manufacturing standards, the Japanese lacquered chopsticks used by the Japanese, the Korean stainless steel chopsticks used by the Koreans, and the high-grade plastic chopsticks used by the Nanyangs are all very different from each other. However, only the bamboo and wooden chopsticks produced by Chinese people are rich in chopstick complex, chopstick culture and chopstick philosophy. It's just that the word "philosophy" is a word that can be used in the name of a very good name, and a very good way to write about it, as if it were the right thing to do.

Let's go back to the basic definition of the chopstick philosophy, and interpret the relevant philosophical concepts from these two complementary straight lines. First of all, let me go back to the beginning of the problem and express in more standardized terms the most basic relationship between Chinese chopsticks and Chinese people. Simply put, chopsticks, invented in ancient China, are Chinese cutlery made of wood, bamboo, bone and teeth, or metal and plastic. The user holds the chopsticks with four or three fingers of the right hand or left hand, and the coordinated movement of the knuckles, wrist and elbow allows the chopsticks to bring the available staple foods and dishes into the mouth in accordance with the person's wishes and eating patterns. Thus, a set of figures related to Chinese chopsticks was deduced by the author. This set of astronomical figures includes the total population of China, the total amount of food consumed, and the total amount of chopsticks produced over a period of 5,000 years.

A. China's 5,000-year conceptualization of the projected population: Setting the population base at 20,000 people 5,000 years ago; reproducing one generation every 30 years. So far *** reproduction of 166 generations; every 300 years the base population increased by a factor of 1, so far *** increase of 17 times. Using this rule, we can see that 5,000 years ago, the base population was 20,000, and 5,000 years later, the base population has reached 1,310,720,000, and the total population of China during the cumulative period of 5,000 years has been 15.79 billion people (the calculation is 157,900,20,000 people ≈ 15.79 billion people).

B, the total number of food dishes for China's population: Setting a per capita life expectancy of 60 years and an average daily food of 1 kilogram, the amount of food consumed by each person over a lifetime of 60 years would be 21,600 kilograms, or 21.6 tons. Total per capita consumption and the total population of the two sets of figures multiplied, *** calculated that the total consumption of all Chinese people for 5,000 years is 340,964,432,000 tons ≈ 340 billion tons.

C, the total number of chopsticks produced in China during 5,000 years: Setting China's per capita life expectancy at 69 years, the average annual use of chopsticks is 1 pair, and the amount of chopsticks used in each person's lifetime is 60 pairs. It is known that the total population of China in 5,000 years is 15.79 billion, the total population and per capita use of chopsticks by multiplying the two sets of figures, *** counting the total number of chopsticks used by all Chinese people in 5,000 years is 947.4 billion pairs. Setting the total production of chopsticks in China as the total usage plus 10% of the inventory flow, i.e., total production = total usage of 947.4 billion pairs + total inventory flow of 94.74 billion pairs, *** the total production of 1,042.14 billion pairs ≈ 1,000 billion pairs.

The conclusion is that the Chinese have produced about 1 trillion pairs of chopsticks for a total population of 15.99 billion, and used them to accompany meals and transport 340 billion tons of food over the history of 5,000 civilizations!

This is an astronomical figure, and if you think about other figures related to chopsticks, such as total production value, total material consumption, total weight, etc., the world will be even more stupefied. Let's do a fun math problem to calculate the total length of chopsticks produced in China during 5,000 years. If we know that the total production of chopsticks in 5,000 years was 1 trillion pairs and 2 trillion sticks, and if we set the average length of each chopstick to 0.25 meters, then the total production and the length of each chopstick are multiplied, and the product is 500 billion meters, which is 500 million kilometers long. Knowing that the length of the earth's equator is about 40,000 kilometers, the total length of Chinese chopsticks can circle the equator 12,500 times. It is also known that all the lines of latitude and longitude of the Earth **** counted for about 1.2 million kilometers long, then the total length of Chinese chopsticks for the total length of the Earth's lines of latitude and longitude of about 416 times!

Are these the first chopsticks that combine 18 functions, several materials, several patterns, and are adapted to serve as tableware, gifts, and sacrificial vessels?

Are these the chopsticks that gave rise to the incense and candles, the ruler and the pen, the chips and the gossip, the fence and the purlins, the abacus characters and even the ancient Chinese math +-×÷><=?

And now we can analyze the chopsticks as two straight lines in relative motion. It is relative, one without the other is not chopsticks; it is unity, with two straight lines constitute a simple and great creation; it is movement, in parallel and cross movement according to the subjective will of people, to complete the selection, access, transport, change the object's orientation and mode of existence, to achieve the human body's most basic needs for survival. Based on chopsticks, the Chinese ancestors had a superficial but profound understanding of the narrow relative concept of two fingers and extended into two chopsticks. Based on these two geometrical straight lines, the two chopsticks have a wide range of connections with the surrounding things that are ****existing and interacting. Due to the adaptation and realization of the survival needs of the meal, which in turn inspired and caused the improvement and perfection of the surrounding things and the creation of new relationships between the motives and motivation, from a thing derived from a similar or can be borrowed form of new things, to promote the development of primitive social material civilization process. It is because chopsticks are used in the palm of the hands of people from all walks of life in Chinese society, and play the role of intermediary and carrier in the soil where food is the most important thing for the people, and thus play the role of not to be acted upon in the various teachings of this state of etiquette and righteousness, and gradually form a specific cultural connotation and national complex with chopsticks. For the "Virtue and Virtue" of the people of the ancestors, in fact, a slight transposition of the text for the "Virtue and Virtue", that more truly reflects the materialistic thinking of the age of the heavenly craftsmen to carry virtue and virtue in the form of things. It can be imagined that, in the creation of such a simple early stage, the invention and improvement of each kind of folk tools and weapons, often need to be perfected by countless people countless times. Before the applied sciences of mankind were summarized and understood, why did our ancestors invent and choose chopsticks instead of spoons, forks, knives and the like as the main form of tableware. And the part of the finger that holds the chopsticks is not the highest or the lowest, but coincidentally located at the middle and upper part of the total length of the chopsticks at about the golden section point, how the success of this positioning point of the law of choice is projected, perhaps the descendants of mankind will never know. But chopsticks in the hand, so that the fingers, wrists, elbows and arms, head, neck, eyes and mouth so coordinated in one, and the dishes and table, cups and plates and dishes so coordinated, fully in line with the principles of modern ergonomics, properly embodies the human-centered, I as the main, food-centric design concepts. Observe again two small chopsticks in the grip, actually will knuckle joints, wrist, arm joints this several mechanical pivot points and force distance force arm design impeccable. Chopsticks when dining on the manipulation of the degree of appropriate, near and far, lifting the weight of light, elegant and vulgar, a lifetime can be clamped to eat tons of delicious, really do not know how to thank the anecdotal inventor, talking about the leverage of the chopsticks, can not help but talk about the mathematical tycoon Archimedes that famous saying. But ask the world who, with two small wooden bamboo strips dare to pry the earth. Although the weight of the earth is unknown, the length of the equator and the lines of latitude and longitude are not unmeasurable. If you think of chopsticks as a long thread, in order to weave a large net bag, you can get the earth like a watermelon in the net. If Archimedes were alive, he might be even more impressed by the fact that a pair of chopsticks can be used to derive the concepts of quantity and numerical characters of ancient Chinese mathematics. If this theory holds true, UNESCO should recognize Chinese chopsticks as a precious living fossil and a heritage of mankind. This is an immensely rich human heritage. The two straight lines represented by the chopsticks have inspired the figurative and creative thinking of many generations. This infinite "two" is equivalent to all the creations in the world. The form of its linear arrangement, can be explained as = or ‖ bipartite continuous orderly arrangement, but also can be explained as > < × ÷ cross diagonal and broken disorderly arrangement - | for the overlap and merger of phenomena, well Feng thirty mouth, Ding Gan earth up and down, and knife force mountain workers, the king's father lines of the wood is the basic combination of phenomena. We have to face these two straight lines into its "∧" shape when the deep thought, who after witnessing its shape can not argue that chopsticks are not the prototype of the compass, can not assert that chopsticks type of compass and the concept of area of pi have no connection to it? At least the shape of the "Wood" with three straight chopsticks similar. The formula of my innovative thinking is due to a pair of chopsticks. When I was busy inventing and obtaining national invention patents in the past twenty years, I tried to establish my own law of innovative thinking, and I had an epiphany when I inadvertently looked at a pair of chopsticks in the shape of a cross on the dining table. That's right, one is a line of latitude and a concept, | is a line of longitude and a concept, I put a finger through the intersection of the cross is a diagonal line and the concept of intersection, these three lines and three concepts are enough to constitute everything. "Chopsticks Law" was created when my daughter's 10th birthday, I wrote a letter overnight, drawing a large "10" character in the letter, and the concepts related to "10" by association. In the letter, I drew a big "ten" character, and by association, I put concepts related to "ten", such as "Star Junction", "Hospital", "Christian Red Cross", etc., as well as the law of chopsticks into the letter. It is too much of a stretch for a ten-year-old daughter to realize such difficult philosophies as lines of latitude and longitude, focal points, the sense of radiation, and four dimensions of space and time from the word "ten," but in fact, I would like to say that it is not limited to this. Chopsticks represent a kind of local traditional culture, the most representative of the Chinese people's concept of orientation and life values. It is better to say that chopsticks are two strokes of the character "人", with one stroke oriented to the spiritual and material levels, dependent on cultural and economic needs, conflicting in the dual realm of impartiality and bias, and practicing the composite norms of idealism and pragmatism. The Chinese character "人" is a perfect analog of the ancient state of China, which takes the middle ground as its way of life, and crowns the character "中" as the foundation of the community and the state. In fact, people-oriented is the starting point and destination of the so-called heaven, earth, people, if not for thousands of years of slavery and feudalism, the birthplace of global humanistic thought and humanism was originally in China. Let's look at the Chinese "man" built by Huazhong Hanzu, with his head held high and his chest held out, relying on his two upright legs to mark the beginning of the animal species from the

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