In ancient times, people used chopsticks for many functions, from the initial function of holding food to not ironing their mouths, and then to grooming their hair. Special materials can also be used for drug testing, health care, treatment, martial arts, singing and dancing, percussion instruments and other functional purposes, and can also be used as weights and measures tools.
Because ancient chopsticks had a unified standard system, unlike the various shapes and sizes of chopsticks now, the greatest function of chopsticks was not the practical function mentioned above, but the inheritance of China's food culture and the spread of philosophical thoughts.
Contemporary people know that chopsticks are the standard symbol of China's living habits and appliances, but few people know the cultural and communication functions carried by chopsticks, and even most people in China have a little knowledge, and they have not fully played their due cultural inheritance and concept communication functions in contemporary society.
China standard chopsticks are seven inches and six inches long, representing secular desires. The seven emotions are joy, sadness, sorrow and fear, representing people's emotional color, and the six desires refer to eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, representing people's physiological needs. At the same time, chopsticks are paired, representing the relative and balance of yin and yang. The five fingers of chopsticks represent Jin Mu's five elements. One end of chopsticks is round, the other end is square, representing the round place, and the hand is in the middle of chopsticks, representing the trinity of heaven and earth.
In addition, chopsticks pay attention to the balance of skill and strength. Too strong to open, too weak to clamp. It means that you should know how to be polite, be polite, be a little better and respect everything. Chopsticks are so tolerant, bearing the culture, philosophy, thought and ideology of China for 5,000 years, and conveying many profound truths to us in the most common and common way.
Chopsticks are often used as life metaphors, such as the story of ten chopsticks folding constantly, to show the importance of brotherhood and unity; For another example, chopsticks were regarded as tokens of love by the ancients, representing the yearning for love that never separated from each other. For another example, the film Chopsticks Brothers expressed the life philosophy of the servants and elements carried by chopsticks in the form of literary works, and also created the divine comedy Little Apple. These are all examples of chopsticks carrying culture and spreading philosophical thoughts.
In real life, the subject will also find that foreigners who can use chopsticks often show their chopsticks skills to the people around them in surprise, which is also an intuitive embodiment of chopsticks' communication function. Chopsticks in China are different from western knives and forks. Their greatest function is not the use function, but the cultural inheritance function and the philosophical thought dissemination function. By now, this subject should have been fully understood.