Those who used chopsticks, whether Chinese or foreigners, without exception, the inventor of admiration for chopsticks. But who invented it? When creating it? Now no one can answer this question. Detract from the ancient Chinese, but can not find the records that make great contributions to human civilization, bits of information, I do not know our ancestors were the lack of text books or records of chopsticks Lost away? Short answer to this unsolved case only the "history No records "before. Of course, research chopsticks chopsticks culture, could not find any circumstantial evidence is not material, the author has collected had three legends about the origin of chopsticks.
Folklore, is the creation of the working people with a certain historical figures, historical events, social customs related to the story. Although the legend is the story, and stories, but they are different: the fabricated story can be arbitrary, but the legend is often the history, the things associated with the actual product, so it includes some historical reality factors, has a certain historical characteristics. Therefore the legend about the origin of chopsticks and chopsticks, chopsticks and chopsticks for the number of traceable to find some reference.
"Bird in saving a late-bloomer", popular in Sichuan legend chopsticks
Bloomer fishing hooks only straight, the other things one would not, so very poor. His wife is unable to follow the tough times ahead, wanted to book him to death Lingjia others.
Bloomer fishing that day and returned home empty-handed, his wife said: "Are you hungry strike, I'll give you burned the meat, you eat!" Late-bloomer really hungry to reach out and grab the meat, flew out the window of a sudden bird pecked him one, he pain, oh - soon, the meat missed it, busy to catch birds. When his second pick meat, birds and peck at the back of him. Bloomer be suspicious, and a bird pecked me twice Why Is not I eat this meat? In order to test birds, the third time he grab the meat, when a bird pecked him again. He knows this is a magic bird, then filled with catch birds, has been to go out chasing, catching up to a deserted hillside, perched on a string and wind, see Bird in on, and whisper song: "Yeah late-bloomer bloomer, eat Meat is not with the clutch and push the meat on my single step ... .... "bloomer heard Bird in the instructions, two small string and wind picked busy home. At this time my wife has urged him to eat meat, so two small string and wind into his late-bloomer to the bowl, just about to rely on meat, string and wind Jiji saw smoke to emerge of a Unit. Bloomer pretend to know things poison, said to his wife: "how can smoke the meat? Is Toxic?" No drugs, you know, string and wind can not touch the meat. "I did not poison, you eat one.", Said a late-bloomer Xieqi meat go out into the mouth sent his wife, his wife was pale with fear, favor escape door.
Bloomer understand that this string and wind is the Bird in God to send bamboo, can experience any poison out of string and wind from every meal with two meals. This came out, not only did not dare to poison his wife, and neighbors have also learned to use bamboo to eat, then more and more people to emulate, the custom of eating with chopsticks also passed down from generation to generation.
The legend is obviously the product of worship bloomer, is inconsistent with historical records, as Yan Zhou Torr times have appeared in ivory chopsticks, a late-bloomer, and Yan Zhou Wang is the same age who has been in use since the King Zhou ivory, fine silk that late-bloomer chopstick, the invention is unthinkable.
Business King Zhou Fei Daji cage jade hairpin Xiecai Hey King Zhou of Jiangsu area is popular in the legend chopsticks
Business King Zhou moody, not to say that eating fish is not fresh, that chicken soup too hot, sometimes cold dishes can not be said entrance to cook dinner it became his sword a lot of ghosts. Chong Fei Daji also know that he is difficult to serve, so every time the pendulum banquet, she taste in advance, so that King Zhou also angry. One time, sister had a bowl of food taste too hot, but replaced it was too late, because of King Zhou had come before the meal. Daji to please the King Zhou's favor, Jizhongshengzhi, busy removing the head of the dishes rely on long Hosta blew up and then sent to King Zhou mouth. King Zhou was dissolute and shameless, he thought fed by the Daji Xiecai is a matter of pleasure, so every day of Daji so. Later, Daji is so special for her and two of craftsmen jade chopsticks Xiecai, this is the first prototype of jade chopsticks, spread way beyond this Xiecai people, so China had chopsticks and chopsticks.
This legend is not the first chopstick full of mythical legends, but more closely tied to life, has some practical significance, but even the legendary wealth, but also remains the truth. Because archaeologists in 1005 in Anyang Yin Houjiazhuang copper excavated the tomb of chopsticks, the research of their early years of King Zhou Yan Zhou era of late, so obviously neither King Zhou invented chopsticks, nor sister have been created, should be earlier products.
"Dayu with tree branches, Xi Zhu fishing food hot pot of food" is the popular legend of chopsticks in the Northeast
Era of Yao and Shun, floods swamped, Shun Yu life to control flooding. Yu enjoined upon the people vowed to clear the flooding of the storm, so three a Tale. His days and nights and fierce storms water fight, not to mention rest and is eating and sleeping can not bear to delay a single minute.
Once Yu boat to an island, the hungry, to set up ceramic pot of meat, cooked, boiled meat can not be with the clutch because the hot food, Yu do not want to pan the meat cool and a waste of time to cut under the two branches out of the meat from the soup to rely on, eat up. From To save time, Yu always branches, Xi Zhu fishing from the pot boiling food, free time to deal with emergencies. Over time, Yu skilled warriors to stick, the ability to rely on for food, men who see him eating, not hot, and not leave hands greasy contamination, have followed suit, and thus gradually formed the chopsticks chopsticks the prototype.
Although, mainly through some kind of historical material to show the people's understanding of historical events, views and feelings, but not strictly reproduce the historical event itself. Yu in flood control, but after listening to use chopsticks and chopsticks in an accident, the initial process, so that people believe to be true of today's situation, and it has made more than a late-bloomer and Da legend chopsticks, appear to be more simple and has the authenticity of things in line with the law of development.
Contributed to the birth of chopsticks, the most important turning point should be cooked hot, ancient times, because no metal implements, animal bones and then for short, very crisp, processing is not easy, so the ancestors and branches to readily pick Xizhu fish cooked food, when the Department in the wild environment, human life caves in the dense forest grass, the most convenient material than the trees, bamboo poles. For this reason, Xi Zhu stick through the time of our ancestors Grilled fiddle, anxious to take hot food to rely on the time of fishing, cooking millet when the valley mixing and so on, the prototype of the gradual emergence of chopsticks, which is inevitable under the special circumstances of human development law From now to study the shape of chopsticks, it sticks with the original characteristics of wood, even after three thousand years of development, still can not change their original nature.
Of course, no legend is always the people's choice through the ages, tailoring, fictional, exaggerated, or even rendering from the processing of fantasy art,
Yu Chong chopsticks Legend is no exception, it is the system of thousands of people gradually explore the process of chopsticks, the typical character who concentrate Yu. In fact, the chopsticks chopsticks should be the ancestors of the birth of the collective wisdom of the masses, not a person's credit. However, Yu chopsticks chopsticks may have originated in the era when even after several years of exploration and penetration of dry years, to the Shang Dynasty and the key has become common use of utensils.
So when it first started to take our country emerge to chopsticks to eat food at the same time? This issue and it has not found a clear documents, find answers only from circumstantial evidence, should be the lesser chopsticks to eat a small bowl, can be tableware during the Shang and Zhou are relatively bulky and difficult to hold with one hand holding the other hand to hold chopsticks. Even the smaller 』『 beans, but also to Sheng meat based, with Cover and pupil, can not end in his hands. To the Western Han Dynasty, there came a round flat foot small round bowl. From Luoyang, Danyang and out of the Western Han tombs Tunxi bowls, plates of view, many of them are glazed, lighter weight and color bright. Obviously this bowl with chopsticks can use chopsticks to eat, from Changsha, Hunan, the early Western Han tombs unearthed in Mawangdui sets of lacquer and bamboo chopsticks ear cup run, be sure to chopsticks and chopsticks when eating to dominate the whole world was.
A folklorist from the archaeological perspective, the late Warring States period tombs have been rare to find disk, turn ritual. Pre due to hand pilaf person, so before meals will to disk, cartridge wash your hands. Evolved with the times, our ancestors understood the chopsticks instead of grasping dinner, hand washing ritual is no longer necessary to eat, it is also buried with a plate-by-turn reduced. Buried with the disappearance of disc cartridge toilet, but also circumstantial evidence and chopsticks in the late Warring States period or Qin Shi Huang unified China, has become the Chinese national food main dishes and rice dishes.
We then to infer the law of development of things, when people take food to his left hand, right hand holding chopsticks Xiecai, three meals a day are to be the case, some people feel that meals will not be cumbersome and inconvenient? When washing hands before meals and grasping rice pilaf sticky hands after a meal but also to wash, no one will be the occasion of the bored, suddenly found that pods Xiecai not only the role of chopsticks, but also a grilled rice import functions? never be anything is a static, unchanging ritual is a breakthrough will be brave. When it was discovered that the drawbacks to grasping food, but found that the advantages and versatility of chopsticks, so the meal will stay in a rut to reform old customs, it is entirely the inevitable law of human progress. Change from hand to chopsticks Xiecai pilaf to eat, will encounter the obstruction of etiquette and even the conservative attack: Also, change the chopsticks instead of pilaf, as well as a matter of habit, so this reform, the progress is very slow and must overnight to work. However, the superiority and versatility of chopsticks chopsticks is an objective reality. When our ancestors not only gradually found chopsticks holder, can dial, pick, picking, summarized, peel, poke, tear, etc., will all delighted to play chopsticks on the table outside the soup than scouring the role of world domination. With the development of history, cooking techniques continuously enriched, chopsticks and chopsticks for the existence of this major role, salad, noodles, Shanxi call fish, lamb, caramelized apples and other delicacies are also suitable for chopsticks and chopsticks came into being. By hand to use chopsticks and eat pilaf, Chinese food culture can be said that the earliest chopsticks chopsticks revolution.
Chinese people use chopsticks is handed down from ancient custom in ancient times called chopsticks as "chopsticks." In traditional Chinese culture, etiquette, following the usage of chopsticks is very taboo.
If something happens: It means that before or dine in the dining process, the length of the missing chopsticks on the table. Usually we call it, "If something happens", it is meant for "death", very lucky. Chinese people used to think that people die in the future is to be put into the coffin, were loaded into the coffin lid has not covered when the coffin from the two short planks, three long board composed together is just "sitting in waiting."
Immortal guiding: This method is to use chopsticks thumb and middle finger, ring finger, little finger and hold the chopsticks, and the index finger extended, meaning that with the accused. Chopsticks to eat with the fingers of people, is tantamount to blaming others, it is the same with the curse.
The Sound of goods and chopsticks: one end of the chopsticks in your mouth, sucking mouth back and forth, from time to time sizzling sound, this behavior is seen as a mainly as practice. Chopsticks when eating sucking mouth in itself is a rude behavior, coupled with coupled with sound, very annoying to be considered is the lack of tutoring.
Hit knock cup light: This behavior is seen as beggars beg for food, its approach is to use chopsticks at meals percussion Panwan. Past, only the beggar was hit with chopsticks to Fanpen, accompanied by the sounds of their mouth supplicate, causing pedestrians to pay attention and give alms.
Executive chopsticks Xuncheng: this is holding chopsticks, like no one else to do, back and forth with chopsticks dish on the table in search of, I do not know where the next chopsticks as well. Such behavior is typical of the lack of training performance, and extremely arrogant offensive.
Executive chopsticks dig grave: This is the holding chopsticks in the food tray could not help push lightly, to find prey, like the grave robbers dig graves in general. This approach with the "executive chopsticks Xuncheng," similar to the practice are all bred, boring.
Pearl Tears chopsticks: chopsticks to take their food in your plate, the hand is not neat, will flow to other dishes or soup on the table. This approach is considered a serious faux pas, the same is not desirable.
Trading Places: reverse use chopsticks when eating, this practice is looked down upon. Is the so-called beggars that are desperate face of the.
Key Stand: chopsticks during a meal with a plate of food to the plug, which is considered an insult at the same table dining staff. To make such a move in the meal, no different from people in Europe out of the middle finger in public.
Publicly incense: out of kindness someone else hold rice, in order to facilitate the easy way to insert a pair of chopsticks in the rice gave each other, will be regarded as disrespectful. Because of China's tradition of incense for the dead, when to do so.
Cross Cross: This is often not noticed by the people, the meal will easily cross the chopsticks on the table, it is not right. Chinese people believe that a cross at the dinner table, is at the same table all the others negative. In addition, this practice is disrespectful of their own, because in the past when sued for a cross draw.
