Why are China people used to using chopsticks?

People in China use chopsticks, which was recorded more than 3000 years ago.

Chopsticks are the quintessence of China. It is light and flexible, unique in the world tableware, and is praised as "the civilization of the East" by westerners. The history of using chopsticks in China can be traced back to Shang Dynasty. "Shi Zi" records that "there was an elephant in the beginning", and Zhou was the monarch at the end of Shang Dynasty. Based on this, China has used chopsticks for at least 3,000 years. Chopsticks were called "chopsticks" in the pre-Qin period and "chopsticks" in the Qin and Han dynasties. The ancients were very particular about taboos, because "Miao" and "Miao" are homophonic, and "Miao" means to stop and is unlucky, so it is called "Miao" in turn. This is the origin of the name of chopsticks.

This legend is circulated in Sichuan and other places, saying that Jiang Ziya is very poor, because he can only fish with a straight hook and know nothing else. His wife really couldn't stand living with him, so she wanted to kill him and marry someone else.

On this day, Jiang Ziya returned empty-handed after fishing. His wife said, "Are you hungry? I've cooked the meat for you, eat it quickly! " Jiang Ziya was really hungry, so he reached for the meat. Suddenly a bird flew out of the window and pecked him. He groaned in pain, didn't eat meat, and hurried to catch birds. When he went to get the meat for the second time, the bird pecked the back of his hand again. Jiang Ziya became suspicious. Why did this bird peck me twice? Can't I eat this meat? In order to try the bird, he caught the meat for the third time, and then the bird pecked him again.

Jiang Ziya knew it was a divine bird, so he pretended to drive it away and chased it outside until it reached an uninhabited hillside. The bird perched on a silk bamboo and sang in a low voice, "Jiang Ziya, Jiang Ziya, don't grab the meat with your hands, the meat is under my feet …" Jiang Ziya listened to the bird's instructions and picked two thin silk bamboos and went home. At this time, his wife urged him to eat meat again, so Jiang Ziya put two bamboo and silk in the bowl and put the meat in. Suddenly, he saw smoke coming from the silk and bamboo. Jiang Ziya pretended not to know about the poisoning and said to his wife, "How can meat smoke?"? Is it poisonous? " Jiang Ziya said, and picked up the meat to his wife's mouth. My wife turned pale with fear and hurried out the door.

Jiang Ziya knew that this bamboo was a gift from God Bird, and any poison could be detected. Since then, he has eaten with two bamboo sticks every meal. After the news came out, not only did his wife dare not poison again, but the neighbors also learned to eat with bamboo branches. Later, more and more people followed suit and the custom of eating with chopsticks was passed down from generation to generation.

This legend is obviously the product of worshipping Jiang Ziya, and it is also inconsistent with historical records. Ivory chopsticks appeared in the Yin Dynasty, and Jiang Ziya and Yin were contemporaries. Now Zhou Wang has used ivory chopsticks, while Jiang Ziya's silk and bamboo chopsticks are far from being invented. But it is true that bamboo was used as chopsticks in the south of Shang Dynasty.