People began to follow this "upper class" lifestyle, making their food more refined and using chopsticks to eat. By the time of the Warring States period, chopsticks gradually replaced knives and forks as the mainstay of the table. As the Chinese diet became more and more refined, our countrymen began to use chopsticks on a large scale. From then on, knives and forks entered the kitchen and hardly made it to the grand hall of fame. Part of the reason for its continuation to this day is the Chinese cult of chopsticksChopsticks continue to this day as a legacy of Chinese culture, not the least of which is the national cult of chopsticks.

Chopsticks are the national treasure of China. It is both light and flexible, unique among the tableware of the world, and is regarded as the "civilization of the East" by Westerners. The history of the use of chopsticks in China can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty.