How to use chopsticks

The correct way to use chopsticks is to pinch one with your thumb, index finger and middle finger, and press the other with your tiger's mouth and ring finger, so that the one you pinch can move around and hold the rice.

Twelve absolutely forbidden ways to use chopsticks

The use of chopsticks by Chinese people has been handed down from ancient times, and was called "chopsticks" in ancient times, and the use of chopsticks in daily life is very delicate. When we use chopsticks, the correct way to use them is to hold them in the right hand, with the thumb and forefinger pinching the upper end of the chopsticks, and the other three fingers naturally bending to hold the chopsticks, and the ends of the chopsticks must be aligned. During the process of using the chopsticks, they must be neatly stacked on the right side of the rice bowl before the meal, and after the meal, they must be neatly stacked vertically in the center of the rice bowl. But it is absolutely forbidden to use the following twelve chopsticks.

1, three long and two short:

This means that before or during the meal, the chopsticks will be unevenly placed on the table. This practice is very unlucky, usually we call it "three long and two short". It means "death". Because the Chinese people used to think that after the death of a person is to be put into the coffin, in the people loaded into the coffin, not yet cover the lid of the coffin, the coffin is part of the front and back of two short boards, two sides and the bottom of the **** three long boards, five boards together into a coffin is exactly three long and two short, so this is extremely inauspicious things.

2, the immortal guide

This practice is also extremely unacceptable, this method of holding chopsticks is, with the thumb, middle finger, ring finger, pinky pinch chopsticks, while the index finger out. This is called "cursing the street" in the eyes of Beijingers. This is because when you stick out your index finger during dinner, you are always pointing at other people, and when Beijingers stick out their index finger to point at each other, it mostly carries the meaning of accusation. Therefore, pointing at someone with chopsticks while eating is tantamount to accusing someone else, which is the same as cursing, and is not allowed. There is another way to do this, which is to talk to someone and use chopsticks to point at them while you are eating.

3. The practice of sipping chopsticks:

This practice is also unacceptable, as it involves putting the end of the chopsticks in your mouth, sipping them back and forth, and making sizzling noises from time to time. This behavior is considered to be a down*trodden practice. This is because sipping chopsticks in the mouth while eating is in itself a rude behavior, and coupled with the sound, it is even more offensive. So generally this practice will be considered a lack of discipline, the same can not be allowed

4, knocking the cup:

This behavior is seen as beggars asking for food, the practice is to use chopsticks to knock the plate and bowl at mealtime. Because in the past, only those who wanted to use chopsticks to hit the rice bowl, its sound with the mouth of the plea, so that pedestrians to pay attention to and give alms. This practice was regarded as an extremely dirty thing to do and was disliked by others.

5, chopsticks touring the city:

This practice involves holding chopsticks in your hand, acting as if no one else is there, and using the chopsticks to go back and forth across the table, searching for a good place to place the chopsticks. This behavior is a typical lack of cultivation performance, and no one in sight is extremely offensive.

6. Lost chopsticks in the grave:

This refers to holding chopsticks in the hands of the dish, in order to find prey, like grave robbers in general. This practice is similar to the practice of "making a tour of the city with chopsticks", which is an uneducated and disgusting way of doing things.

7, tears chopsticks missing pearl:

In fact, this is the chopsticks to their own plate, chopsticks to their own dishes, the hand is not good, the soup will be spilled into the other dishes or on the table. This practice is considered a serious breach of etiquette and is equally undesirable.

8, upside down:

That is to say that the meal will be used upside down chopsticks, this practice is very much looked down upon, as the so-called hunger, so much so that they do not care about the face of the chopsticks to make the inverted, which is absolutely not allowed.

9, the pin:

In the meal with a chopstick to insert the dishes in the plate, this is also not allowed, this is considered to be the same table dining staff a kind of humiliation. Making such a move during a meal is the same as sticking your middle finger out at someone in public in Europe, and that's a no-no, too.

10, public incense:

Then it is often out of goodwill to help others to serve rice, in order to facilitate the convenience of a pair of chopsticks inserted in the rice handed to each other. This is regarded as a great disrespect by the people, because the tradition in Beijing is to do so only when offering incense to the dead, and if you insert a set of chopsticks into the rice, you will be regarded as offering incense to the dead, so it is never acceptable to insert chopsticks into the bowl.

11, cross cross:

This point is often not noticed by people, in the meal will be chopsticks casually cross on the table. This is not right, for Beijingers believe that a cross at the dinner table is a total rejection of the others at the table, just as the nature of a student who writes the wrong homework and is given a cross in the book by the teacher, which cannot be accepted by others. In addition to this, this practice is also disrespectful to oneself, because in the past, only when a lawsuit to draw a confession to hit a fork, which is also undoubtedly denying oneself, which is also not acceptable.

12, landing shocked God:

The so-called "landing shocked God" means that the chopsticks fell to the ground, which is a serious breach of etiquette. Because Beijingers believe that all the ancestors sleep underground and should not be disturbed, dropping chopsticks on the ground is tantamount to disturbing the ancestors underground, which is a great impiety, so this behavior is also not allowed. However, there is a way to break the law. Once the chopsticks fall to the ground, one should hurry to use the chopsticks to draw a cross on the ground according to the direction in which one is sitting. The direction is east-west then north-south. The meaning is that I am not something, should not alarm the ancestors, and then will start the chopsticks, the mouth at the same time that they deserve to die.

The above mentioned twelve kinds of chopsticks taboo, is our daily life should pay attention to, as a state of etiquette and ancient city, through a pair of small chopsticks usage, can let people see his deep cultural deposits.