Back to the 22nd Scholars, "the waiter took a pair of chopsticks, two side dishes and a plate of bacon." Shen Congwen's autobiography, I read both small books and big books. There is a big bamboo tube in front of a small restaurant in a small street, which contains chopsticks cut from bamboo.
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In Lu Rong's Garden Miscellaneous Notes in the Ming Dynasty, it was said that Wu people were afraid of saying that "ju" and "chopsticks" were homophonic, so they changed "chopsticks to be quick". Because the boat people and fishermen in Wuzhong are particularly taboo about "chopsticks", they are most afraid of "staying" in the boat. If the ship stops, the boatman will have no business. They are even more afraid that boats will "eat" and wooden boats will "eat" how to fish.
Guided by this superstitious homophonic thought, the antonym of "chopsticks" is called "chopsticks" for good luck. Li Yuheng, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, said more clearly in Pushing Yu Yu Language: "Those who are afraid of bad words and say good words, if they are lazy, call them fast. Today, because it has been circulating for a long time, even those who are called "fast men" among scholars have forgotten their beginning. " Although some people called chopsticks "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty, Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty did not admit that people would soon prefix the word "chopsticks" with bamboo.
Kangxi Dictionary only accepts chopsticks and does not accept chopsticks, which can prove this point. However, it is difficult for the emperor to resist the trend that people are afraid of taboos and like to draw lots orally. Forty times in A Dream of Red Mansions, Cao Xueqin called it "chopsticks" three times, "embarrassing" twice and wrote "chopsticks" directly four times.
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