From what dynasty did the spoon begin to rise?

The origin of the ancient Chinese table spoon can be traced back to the Neolithic era when farming emerged. During this period, most of the spoons were made of animal bone, and the shapes of dagger and spoon were common. The dagger-shaped spoon is flat and long, with a thin edge at the end; the narrow handle of the spoon has a flat spoon, and the production is more elaborate. Both types of spoons have a smooth ground surface, and the end used to take food is often sharpened with a cutting edge. Many table spoons were pierced at the end of the handle with a small hole for a lanyard, making them easy to carry. Bone spoons have been unearthed at numerous Neolithic sites, such as the Maishan Culture, the Half Slope Site, and the Dawenkou Culture in the Yellow River Basin, and the Hemudu Culture in the Yangtze River Basin. In addition to bone spoons, jade spoons were unearthed at the Yao Shan site of the Liangzhu Culture in Zhejiang Province and the Lingjiatan site in Hanshan, Anhui Province, in a shape similar to that of the modern table spoon.

The emergence of the table spoon is closely related to the way ancient people ate. China's Neolithic crop varieties were mainly rice and millet, suitable for cultivation in the humid south and the arid north, respectively. The cooking of these two kinds of grains was relatively simple, and people could eat them directly by adding water to the cooking utensils and cooking them into porridge and rice. In the face of steaming hot porridge, especially the semi-fluid rice porridge, people are not convenient to grab food with their hands directly, and need to eat with the help of utensils. At the beginning, people may pick up the animal bone bone pieces or clam shells, without trimming it to eat porridge rice. Later, people were no longer satisfied with the uneven natural state of bone fragments, so they began to process them, the real meaning of the spoon was made, and the spoon has become an indispensable eating utensil, accompanying people for thousands of years. The extensive prehistoric grain food tradition, especially the establishment of the porridge food way, so that the emergence of the table spoon became inevitable.

The main material used to make table spoons in the Neolithic Age was animal bone, and after entering the Bronze Age, bronze was gradually used as the production material. Later, with the development of the times and the gradual improvement of the level of production technology, the material of the table spoon changed, people no longer use animal bones, but instead use bronze, gold and silver, lacquer wood, ceramics and other production materials. In addition, with the continuous improvement of the understanding, people are more and more in pursuit of the practicality and beauty of the object, the spoon has become more practical and more exquisite. The emergence of the table spoon, not only for people to eat grains to provide a means, but also promote the continuous improvement of people's eating utensils, the pursuit of, and then enriched the people's food culture.