Why do China people use chopsticks, Westerners use knives and forks, and Indians use their hands?

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancient method of grabbing food was gradually replaced by the way of sending food into the mouth with the help of tableware. Why do China people use chopsticks, Westerners use knives and forks, and Indians use their hands? The more limited to a single dish, the more it appears, that is, fork, bucket, retort, knife, cut, sign and so on. Waiting for different kinds of tableware. Materials include bones, horns, wood, copper, jade, etc. The shapes of some tableware are also changing. Spoons, for example, developed from sharp leaf-shaped spoons to tongue-shaped spoons with wide handles and narrow handles, which became the mainstream form of spoons in ancient China and were used for more than 2,000 years. The use of forks has received more attention in the upper class. Archaeological findings show that there are many bone forks in this era, such as Tomb No.2717, Zhongzhou Road, Luoyang, Henan Province, and 5 1 bone forks were unearthed at one time. Forks have also been unearthed in the Xigong District of Luoyang and the site of Houma Ancient City in Shanxi. However, since the Warring States period, forks unearthed are very rare, only sporadic discoveries were made in the Han and Wei Dynasties, almost no forks were unearthed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and only two forks were unearthed in the Yuan Dynasty. Obviously, in the tableware sequence of the Chinese nation, forks did not form a long tradition due to the long historical process, but were basically replaced by chopsticks that are more suitable for the dietary needs of China people.

Before chopsticks were widely used, spoons were the main eating tools of the ancients, which had already appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty. Let us know the ancient civilization from the text. But in the era before writing appeared, we could only look for clues from archaeology.

The archaeological evidence that ancient people in China first used spoons to eat is that in the Neolithic Age seven or eight thousand years ago, the ancients invented spoons, which is closely related to the invention of pottery. The appearance of clay pots made it possible to cook porridge rice with grains that could only be baked in hot slate, and semi-liquid porridge needed tools, so there was a bi made of bone chips and sawdust, which was very inconvenient to use.

Dining spoon, called Bi or spoon in ancient times, has other names that are unknown now. "Bi" is the general name of ancient dining spoons in China. In the literature after Qin and Han Dynasties, Bi is still the general name of spoon. In Han Dynasty, Bi was called the key; in Shuowen, Bi was also called the key; in dialect, Bi was called the key, indicating that the names of Bi and Key were interchangeable after Han Dynasty, but in comparison, Bi was more widely used as a proper name.