According to historical records, we had ivory chopsticks about 365,438+000 years ago. According to historical records, "it is easy to start from the elephant, but it is terrible." Yin was at the end of the Yin Dynasty. Because of luxury, Zhou Wang sawed off the elephant and made chopsticks to show his luxury spirit. This is the first pair of ivory we have recorded in writing. But historically, he was not the first pair of chopsticks in China, but only the first pair of ivory chopsticks.
According to textual research, the history of chopsticks in China will advance 1000. Our earliest chopsticks were bamboo chopsticks, not ivory chopsticks. In order to facilitate the fishing of cooked food, our ancestors took down branches in the virgin forest and fished vegetables in clay pots. In the process of fishing, the prototype of chopsticks gradually formed. The most primitive chopsticks should be long and short, thick and thin, not as regular as we are now. By the time "chopsticks are like chopsticks at first, but they are afraid of chopsticks at last", chopsticks have been formed and the thickness and length are the same. In this way, the earliest prototype of chopsticks in China has a history of about 4,000 years.
In ancient times, chopsticks were mostly made of local materials, trees or sticks made of natural animal bone horns, and at the end of primitive society, they were trimmed wooden chopsticks or bamboo chopsticks. Tooth chopsticks and jade chopsticks appeared in Xia and Shang Dynasties. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, solemn and simple copper chopsticks and iron chopsticks appeared, while during the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, bright and gorgeous lacquer chopsticks, exquisite and precious silver chopsticks and gold chopsticks appeared. Recently, chopsticks made of different materials have various names, including ivory chopsticks, rhinoceros horn chopsticks, ebony chopsticks inlaid with gold and various jade chopsticks.
In the Tang Dynasty of our country, silver chopsticks were the most famous, because gold chopsticks were monopolized by the royal family and others could no longer use them, but silver chopsticks were used by most large families. Since the appearance of silver chopsticks in the Tang Dynasty, silver chopsticks are still very popular. It is said that silver chopsticks can detect poison. After toxic things are inserted with silver chopsticks, the original silver is black.