People in China have a long history of using chopsticks. According to modern archaeological discoveries, at least in the Neolithic Age, the ancients began to use chopsticks. For thousands of years, the sayings, usages and taboos about chopsticks have formed a unique "Qi culture" in ancient China.
The earliest record of chopsticks
When did it start?
The earliest record of chopsticks
When did it start?
Shuo Wen Jie Zi said
"Bang, the rice is delicious."
In ancient China, chopsticks had many names. There are three mainstream appellations: one is Zhu, the other is Zhu, and the other is Zhu. If it is made of wood, write "". Among them, "Qi" and "Qi" were popular earlier, and "Qi" was used more in Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as Gu's jade tablets, which said that "Qi is also good at eating"; After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the official statement was often called "Zhu".
This word has both meaning and sound. Its meaning is quite direct, that is, something to hold food and help eat. This thing is unusual in the eyes of the ancients. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" said: "Bang, the rice is delicious." In the eyes of the ancients, China's chopsticks were a strange thing. Not only westerners find it incredible, but ancient China people themselves find the invention of chopsticks wonderful.
The popular name of "chopsticks" did not appear in the literature until after the Ming Dynasty, and began to be called "chopsticks" and "chopsticks". One of the most frequently quoted quotations is Lu Rong's Garden Miscellanies. Boating on water was taboo at that time, especially in Wuzhong (now Suzhou). For example, the words "turn" and "live" are taboo, so "Zanbu" is called rag and "Zan" is called "Kuaier".
Amin scholar Li Yuheng has another saying in Sleeping on the Pushing Canopy. He thought that the boatman called "Kuai" a clown, not a homonym of "Kuai" and "Huo", but a homonym of "Kuai" and "Lag". "There are still people in the world who are jealous of bad words and call them good words. If they stand up slowly, they call them fast." The boatman drove the boat as fast as flying, and over time he shouted away. According to the law of philology, "chopsticks" gradually became "chopsticks".