What taboos should China people keep in mind when using chopsticks?

People in China eat with chopsticks, so they pay great attention to the use of chopsticks in their daily life. Chopsticks are usually held with the right hand. Holding chopsticks in the left hand is considered abnormal by the people, commonly known as "left-handed". Generally, the position of holding chopsticks should be moderate, and it should not be too high or too low. It is generally believed that it can be inferred from the position of chopsticks that this child will marry far from home or close to home in the future. If you hold chopsticks too high, the object must be far away from home; if you hold chopsticks too low, the object must be close to home. In this way, it is definitely taboo to worry that children will stay away from their parents in the future or don't want their children to be with their parents for nothing. When holding chopsticks, pay attention to the thumb and forefinger holding the upper end of chopsticks, and the other three fingers naturally bend to hold chopsticks, 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. But it is absolutely forbidden to use the following twelve kinds of chopsticks.

1.

This means putting chopsticks on tables of different lengths before or during meals. This is unlucky. Usually we call it "three long and two short", which means "death". Because people in China used to think that people should be put into coffins after death, and when people put them in, the coffins are made up of two short boards, with three long boards at the bottom of both sides, and the coffins made of five boards together are just unlucky.

2. the fairy leads the way

This practice is also extremely unacceptable. This method of holding chopsticks is: thumb and middle finger, ring finger and little finger hold chopsticks, and index finger is extended. This is called "cursing the street". Because when you eat, your index finger sticks out and always points at others. Generally, a finger of the index finger means accusation. Therefore, pointing at people while eating with chopsticks is tantamount to accusing others, just like swearing, which is not allowed. Another situation is this meaning, that is, talking to others and pointing at people with chopsticks while eating.

3. Pinpin Liu Sheng

This practice is not good either. The practice is to put one end of chopsticks in your mouth, carry it with your mouth, and make a hissing sound from time to time. This kind of behavior is considered despicable. Because it is impolite to eat chopsticks with your mouth, and it is even more annoying when accompanied by sound. Therefore, this practice is generally considered to be the lack of family education and is not allowed.

Knock on the cup

This kind of behavior is considered as a beggar begging, and its practice is to knock on vegetables with chopsticks while eating. Because in the past, only beggars hit the begging bowl with chopsticks, and the sound was accompanied by crying in their mouths, which would attract the attention of pedestrians and give alms. This practice is considered extremely despicable and despised by others. As the saying goes, "knock on the bowl chopsticks and beg for food all your life."

5. Visit the city.

This practice is holding chopsticks in hand, doing nothing, using chopsticks to patrol the dishes on the table and see where to get chopsticks. This kind of behavior is a typical lack of self-cultivation, and arrogance is extremely disgusting.

6. Dig a grave with puzzles

This refers to holding chopsticks in a dish in order to find prey, just like a grave robber. This practice is similar to "visiting the city", which is both uneducated and boring.

7. Tears and beads

In fact, this is when you pick up the dishes on your plate with chopsticks, your hands are clumsy, and the soup spills into other dishes or on the table. This practice is considered to be a serious faux pas, and it is also undesirable.

8. Turn Gan Kun upside down

That is to say, it is very despised to use chopsticks upside down when eating. Never knock chopsticks down because you are so hungry that you don't care about your face.

9. Shenzhen Dinghai

It is not good to hold the dishes on the plate with chopsticks when eating, which is a shame to the diners at the same table. Making such a move while eating is tantamount to putting up the middle finger in public in Europe, which means the same thing, and this is unacceptable.

10. Incense in public places

Sometimes, people help others with food out of kindness. In order to save trouble, they will put a pair of chopsticks in the food and hand them to each other. It is not advisable to do this, and it will be regarded as disrespectful, because it is the tradition of the Han people to do this when offering incense to the dead. If you put a pair of chopsticks in rice, it is undoubtedly regarded as the same as offering incense to the dead. Therefore, it is absolutely unacceptable to put chopsticks in a bowl.

1 1. Cross.

This is often overlooked, and chopsticks are casually crossed on the table when eating. This is not right. Bifurcation at the dinner table is a total denial of others at the same table, just like the fact that the students' wrong homework in this book was bifurcated by the teacher, which is unacceptable to others. In addition, this practice is also disrespectful to myself, because in the past, I only used a fork to confess when I was in court, which is undoubtedly denying myself, and this is also not acceptable.

12. Surprised at landing

The so-called "landing" means accidentally dropping chopsticks on the ground, which is a serious rude performance. Because people think that all ancestors are buried underground and should not be disturbed, it is unfilial to disturb the ancestors underground when chopsticks fall on the ground, so this behavior is not allowed. But there is a way to break it. Once the chopsticks fall on the ground, you should quickly draw a cross on the ground with the chopsticks that have fallen on the ground according to the direction in which you sit. Its direction is east and west first, then north and south. It means that I am not a thing, I should not disturb my ancestors, and then I will pick up chopsticks and say that I should die at the same time.

The taboo of twelve kinds of chopsticks mentioned above is something we should pay attention to in our daily life. In addition, people in China also avoid licking chopsticks with their tongues, picking vegetables with chopsticks touching food, and picking their teeth with chopsticks instead of toothpicks. This is a taboo custom when eating or feasting at home. Mainly about hygiene, modesty and politeness. This shows that China people attach importance to the solemnity and seriousness of diet. If they don't take this as a warning and violate these taboos, they will be regarded as uncivilized "bandits" or filthy "beggars".

I hope it will help you, and I hope it will be adopted. Thank you ~ ~