Chopsticks originated in China and are widely used in East and Southeast Asia such as China, Korean Peninsula, Viet Nam, Japanese and Singaporean. Yu Lao, the son of Han Fei, said, "The former is like a bamboo pole, but Ji Zi is terrible." Zhou Wang was the monarch at the end of Shang Dynasty, so as early as 1 1 century BC, chopsticks made of ivory appeared in China, that is to say, the recorded history of using chopsticks in China has been more than 3,000 years.
Chopsticks are tableware with national characteristics invented by China people. There are many folklore about chopsticks, such as Jiang Ziya's invention of silk and bamboo chopsticks inspired by the divine bird, da ji's invention of Hosta chopsticks to please people, and Dayu's invention of branch chopsticks to save water and time.
In today's society, the names of chopsticks have become commonplace. However, in calligraphy, poetry and articles, experts and scholars still refer to chopsticks as chopsticks or embarrassment, rather than "forgetting the beginning" as mentioned in Peng Yu.
First of all, chopsticks have round ends and square ends. The circle symbolizes the sky. The symbolic place of the square corresponds to the circular place; This is the basic principle for China people to understand the world.
Secondly, when holding chopsticks, the thumb and forefinger are above, the ring finger and little finger are below, and the middle finger is in the middle, which is the image of three talents in heaven and earth. This is China people's understanding of the relationship between man and the world.
Yin-yang concept
Then, China people abide by the concepts of Tai Chi and Yin and Yang.
Tai Chi is one, Yin and Yang are two;
Divided into two, which means that everything is composed of two opposites;
Combine into one; This combination of yin and yang also means a perfect result;
China people pay attention to the integration of the two. For example, both eastern civilization and western civilization originated from myths. In the west, man and God are separated, science is the way of doing things, and religion is the way of being a man. Everything in China is combined: He Xiangu, Tie Guai Li, Lv Dongbin, the Monkey King and Zhu Bajie are also human beings;
China people's ideal and reality, soul and body are also integrated;
Therefore, calling the waiter to "take a pair of chopsticks" in a restaurant must be from China; If you say "take two chopsticks", it must be a foreigner.
There are eight diagrams in Zhouyi: doing, watching, rooting, truth, training, reasoning, Kun and meeting; Dark gossip: rest, life, injury, du, scenery, death, shock, and opening. Two chopsticks are two, corresponding to gossip, meaning "right" and "mouth". Chopsticks themselves are straight and long, corresponding to "Xun" in gossip, meaning "Ru".
When using chopsticks, one is active and the other is passive; The initiative is yang and the passive is yin, which is the image of two instruments.
There is a pair of chopsticks on the dining table, just like a pen on the table.
systemic
The standard length of chopsticks is seven inches and six minutes, which means that people have secular desires to show their essential differences from animals.
Chopsticks also have the functions of acupuncture, massage and scraping. In the past, people in the Jianghu could solve their own problems as long as they had a pair of chopsticks. Even if they forget to bring it, they can still use it by breaking a branch or reed, grinding it on a stone and washing it in water.
There are also many stresses in adapting to chopsticks. For example, a dish can only be clipped from top to bottom, which is called a "riding clip". It is not allowed to turn the clip from bottom to top, which is called "sedan chair clip".