The correlation of chopsticks is easy to understand.

Chopsticks are straight and long. Two chopsticks are a pair. Holding food with chopsticks is not two simultaneous movements, but one is active and the other is passive; One is above and the other is below. Two chopsticks together become Artest ruler, the active one is Yang and the passive one is Yin; The top is Yang, and the bottom is Yin. This is an image of two instruments. Yin-yang interaction can be adopted; The separation of yin and yang, this Tai Chi does not exist. This is the unity of opposites, and yin and yang are mutually rooted. Two chopsticks are interchangeable, the moving one is not always moving, and the next one is not always in the next one. This is yin-yang variability.

Look at chopsticks. One end is square and the other is round. The square symbolizes the earth, and the circle symbolizes the sky. The square is Kun Gua, and the round is Gan Gua, so the image of Gan Kun appeared. Kungua has the meaning of handle, handle and handle; Dry divination symbolizes the sky and the first. As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people, which probably comes from this. Holding the handle of chopsticks, holding food with the head of chopsticks, Kun is on the top and dry on the bottom. This is Tai's divination, which is smooth and auspicious. Holding the chopstick head in hand, holding the food with the chopstick handle, and making the Kun on the top, this is the six-No (pǐ) of heaven and earth, no, it is a block. Isn't this ridiculous?

When using chopsticks, chopsticks naturally divide our five fingers into three parts, with thumb and forefinger on top, ring finger and little finger on the bottom and middle finger in the middle. In this way, the image of three talents of heaven and earth has been realized, and the way of three talents of heaven and earth exists in China.

The ring finger and the little finger symbolize the tunnel. The ring finger and the little finger are weak and are in the next position. They must depend on each other and symbolize the broad masses of the people. They must respect and care for each other, support each other, respond with one voice and seek the same spirit. It symbolizes that it is difficult to be alone in dealing with people, and it is difficult to succeed without assistance.

Thumb and forefinger symbolize heaven on earth. Among the five fingers, the index finger is the most important, the flexion and extension are the most skillful, and the direction is the best. It symbolizes officials and chiefs, giving orders and dominating the interests of others, but acting rashly and finally causing great disasters, which can only be achieved by thumb control. What does the thumb symbolize? Symbolizing supervision, symbolizing law, symbolizing people's hearts and symbolizing the laws of nature ... This is said from different levels and cannot be ignored. Finger dexterity, thumb awkwardness, dexterity in use, and clumsy restriction. Therefore, heaven is still changing, but it can't be changed randomly. Heaven goes hiking, and heaven says nothing.

Among the five fingers, the middle finger is the longest, which is in the position of human beings, symbolizing that human beings are the main body and the spirit of all things is long. But living in an awkward position between two chopsticks symbolizes middle-level leaders, with public grievances and official prestige; It symbolizes that people reach middle age, they should be filial when they go to high school, and they need milk when they are weak ... in a word: it is difficult to be a man! But only doing is the longest. Middle age is not easy, but it is the most brilliant.

Chopsticks are very simple, just two, you can see them everywhere. This is simplicity. Chopsticks are also diverse, with wood and bamboo, gold and silver, and the varieties of chopsticks are easy. Although chopsticks have changed a lot, they are straight and long, and the situation that two chopsticks are a pair has never changed. This is the essential attribute of things that are not easy. Simplicity, change and difficulty are the three principles of the Book of Changes. For example, it is very simple for a person to be represented by only one name; But his appearance, fate, mood ... are always changing, and this is change; But he, whether male or female, has secular desires, and it is not easy to be born and die. By extension, this is not the case.

Yijing and chopsticks

Yi Dao contains everything, Tai Chi Yin and Yang can be divided infinitely, and its big is nothing but its small is nothing. Yi Li is a human being, just around us. It may be beneficial to talk with chopsticks, but "people use it for daily use without knowing it".

Yi Gua explains that food is the sky: two chopsticks, two innate hexagrams are exchanged. Exchange, for mouth, for eating. Chopsticks are straight and long, and they are a six-pointed star. Xun, for the wood, for the introduction. Together, it means eating with chopsticks. What's in the entrance? Round-headed chopsticks are used for divination and heaven. Isn't it "heaven" to eat like this? Therefore, it is believed that "food is the most important thing for the people" comes from here.

Han people eat with chopsticks, which has been passed down since ancient times. It was also called "chopsticks" in ancient times. The use of chopsticks in daily life is very particular. Generally, when we use chopsticks, the correct way to use chopsticks is to hold chopsticks with the right hand, hold the upper end of chopsticks with the thumb and forefinger, and hold chopsticks with the other three fingers naturally bent, and the two ends of chopsticks must be aligned. In the use process, chopsticks must be placed neatly on the right side of the rice bowl before eating, and must be placed neatly in the middle of the rice bowl after eating.