Why are chopsticks 7 inches 6 minutes

The standard length of chopsticks is seven inches and six minutes (about 22-24 centimeters), which represents the seven emotions and six desires of human beings, to show that they are fundamentally different from animals.

Chopsticks are known by a variety of names, but in the pre-Qin period they were known as "chops", or "pods". Zheng Xuan commented, "Chopsticks are like chopsticks, and people nowadays call chopsticks "chopsticks"." When Sima Qian, the famous historian of the Han Dynasty, wrote the Records of the Grand Historian, he called the chopsticks of the Shang Zhou period "chopsticks", which was written as "wooden chopsticks". The character "筯" appeared again in the two Han Dynasty. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Li Bai's poem "It is difficult to walk on the road" reads: "Stopping the cup and throwing in the chopsticks does not allow me to eat"; and Du Fu's poem "The Walking of the Lillies" reads: "The rhinoceros chopsticks are tired of drinking for a long time, but the metal metal chopsticks are cut and cut in an empty way." From the verses of these two great poets, we know that "but" and "chopsticks" were commonly used in the Tang Dynasty. However, since the Tang Dynasty, the name "箸" was standardized in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, the name "箸" did not remain unchanged until the Ming Dynasty. Ming Lu Rong "beans garden miscellany" cloud: Wu common boat people said, "live" and "chopsticks" resonance, so change "chopsticks for the fast child", and later evolved into a direct call "fast child". fast child".