Say chopsticks, use chopsticks.

? Chopsticks are tools for eating, light and flexible. It is unique among tableware in the world. It has something to do with eating. Food is the most important thing for people. A pair of chopsticks is called chopsticks, but there are actually no two chopsticks. Traditional chopsticks are made of bamboo with round top and bottom, which means that the world is round and eternal.

? Here's a story about Jiang Ziya, which tells the legend that the divine bird saved Jiang Ziya. Before Jiang Ziya became famous, he fished straight, and his family was poor. He wanted to poison Jiang Ziya and marry another woman, so he cooked a pot of poisonous meat for him to eat. When Jiang Ziya reached for the meat in the pot, a bird pecked the back of his hand three times.

Jiang Ziya ran away from home after the bird. Unexpectedly, the bird said to him: Jiang Ziya, Jiang Ziya, don't eat meat with your hands, just use the branches under your feet. Jiang Ziya felt very strange, so he picked two thin silk bamboos at the foot of the bird and went home. But something strange happened. Jiang Ziya fished for meat in the pot with those two thin bamboo poles, and the two strange bamboo filaments emitted smoke. Jiang Ziya this just understand, bird block turned out to be poisonous in the meat!

? This is a god bird! Later, the story was passed down from mouth to mouth and spread outdoors in the village: bamboo can sense whether food is poisonous or not. This is the prototype of chopsticks. Since then, people have developed the habit of catching food with bamboo.

Of course, there is also a story circulating among our people, that is, when Dayu was harnessing water, he passed the house three times and didn't go in. He was hungry and cold in the wild, and used a clay pot to pick up bamboo branches for meat.

? In ancient times, chopsticks were called "chopsticks". Historical records: Wei Zi's family recorded that "there were like chopsticks in ancient times". Zhou Wang was the last king of Shang Dynasty, when he ate with chopsticks made of ivory. It can be seen that chopsticks have been used in China for two or three thousand years. Then when did you call it "chopsticks"? Careful friends may find that when Cao Xueqin reads A Dream of Red Mansions, he sometimes writes "chopsticks" and sometimes "chopsticks" when describing the characters eating. This may indicate that appellations are changing during this period. So I think it is also very interesting to study chopsticks as a tool. Chopsticks have also contributed to thousands of years of civilization in China.

? Thousands of years of cultural heritage, chopsticks, a dining etiquette, also has a long history. I once read an article written by Mr Ma Weidou about the taboo of using chopsticks. When I was a child, my parents, beginners of chopsticks, were taught to shake hands and hold chopsticks. What's even more memorable is that at the beginning of every meal, my father doesn't allow our children to knock on bowls and touch vegetables with chopsticks. If it is, it will be reprimanded: begging; Pay more attention when eating, don't pick and choose on the plate. If you do that, you will be scolded, and you won't have a tutor ... eat near your face if you want. To put it bluntly, our parents demand a lot of us in this respect: we should put the chopsticks neatly, we should not put them anywhere, and we should not allow our elders to put chopsticks in the rice and wait for dinner later, so we will definitely be scolded. Occasionally at home in cook the meat (at that time, everyone was poor and could only eat meat once a year! ), we will happily suck chopsticks everywhere, and we will be reprimanded by our parents for making such a sound: greedy and worthless!

Zero zero always said these things, and now it seems to be an education, an education with chopsticks. Although it is often heard that parents will say: poor to raise sons, rich to raise daughters. In fact, in the use of chopsticks, parents demand that we are all the same, that is, to educate boys and girls.

These customs and habits about chopsticks have been passed down to this day, and have more or less become a kind of food etiquette for every household and even public restaurants.

Start with chopsticks and be an educated person.