What is the function of ivory chopsticks?

In the traditional sense, ivory chopsticks can detect the toxicity of some foods, and in the modern sense, they have the function of auspicious evil spirits; The second is to reflect the noble and elegant identity of users; The third is the collection function.

China is the birthplace of chopsticks, and eating with chopsticks has a long history. Zhou was the monarch in the late Shang Dynasty. In China, refined ivory chopsticks appeared in China about 1 144 BC, that is to say, more than 3 100 years ago.

The use record of chopsticks in China has always been written records, lacking physical evidence. The relief of chopsticks found in an ancient Han stove collected by China Kitchen Culture Museum fills the gap in the material evidence of chopsticks. It is the only known material evidence at present, and its exquisite degree is comparable to that of modern chopsticks, so it can be called a contemporary national treasure.

Extended data:

The history of mankind is an evolutionary history. With the improvement of cooking methods, its tableware has been continuously developed. In primitive society, people grabbed food by hand, and in the Neolithic age.

Most ancestors used cooking to eat. Mi Dou, the staple food, is boiled into porridge with water, while vegetables and meat, the non-staple food, are boiled into soup. It is very inconvenient to eat porridge with a dagger, but it is handy to take vegetables and meat from soup. Neolithic soup was the mainstream, so it was extremely inconvenient to drink soup with a spoon. It is even more impossible to catch hot thin soup by hand, so chopsticks have become the most ideal.

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