Why did the ancient Chinese abandon the use of knives and forks and chose to use chopsticks?

Productivity determines the relations of production? This is a constant truth. There are two main reasons why our country gave up the knife and fork and chose chopsticks: firstly, chopsticks are more convenient to use, and secondly, it is the need for the development of the society in the ancient times, and finally, it has become the traditional culture of our country.

One, on the longevity of chopsticks

Speaking of chopsticks, according to historical records, probably in our country has a history of more than 3,000 years, it is a witness to our civilization of China. In our primitive society period, the ancients have been using the knife and fork, but with the improvement of class status, from group marriage to polygamy, from tribal peoples to the development of the state, which further elaborates the improvement of social productivity. It is because of the increase in the level of production, the spread of culture and the increase in class status that there were princes and nobles and commoners.

Once upon a time it was everyone who had wine to drink together and meat to eat together, but when the change in class philosophy occurred, eating meat and drinking became the business of the princes and nobles. Since eating meat is the material conditions that the princes and aristocrats often enjoy, it is a natural luxury for the common people to eat meat, but life is precious, and since it is life that we all have to respect, then there is the universality of chopsticks.

Second, before the knife and fork is the protagonist but now chopsticks is the protagonist

People eat for days, living in ancient times, crops can not harvest, all rely on God's favor. In the past, the population is small, the tribal leaders can really busy, coupled with the social productivity level is not high, with iron eating is also an honor, in addition to living in the primitive society to eat the way is mainly to hunt and collect for a living, hunting is one of the conditions of survival. Since it is hunting to survive, then it must be big fish and meat, since it is meat mostly, then chopsticks and knife and fork compared to knife and fork, knife and fork is more advantageous.

The economic base determines the upper level, we usually eat rice is hot just out of the pot, since it is just out of the pot, then there will certainly be some heat emission. Knife and fork are some copper utensils, then their heat transfer will be faster than our wood heat transfer, not only that, life us, we have all the grains in the bag, since it is the grains, chopsticks of course, will be more convenient than the knife and fork. ditto that's why the ancients chose the reason