China people have many taboos about using chopsticks when eating, for example, don't knock on bowls or pots when eating. Generally speaking, some people think that this etiquette is related to the taboo of begging. In other words, only beggars beat bowls and pots with chopsticks when begging. In daily life, it is a taboo if chopsticks are inserted vertically in a bowl or basin. Because only chopsticks are inserted vertically on the sacrificial bowl and basin. Chopsticks can be said to have become a craft gift, some inlaid with gold and silver, and some carved dragons and painted phoenixes. Chopsticks are equivalent to the extension of two fingers, and have mechanical principles. Have you thought about it? A pair of simple chopsticks, but with such rich cultural connotation?
China is the birthplace of chopsticks, and eating with chopsticks has a long history. The ancient book "Han Feizi Yulao" says: "In the past, it was like an elephant, but Ji Zi was terrible. Sima Qian also said in Historical Records of Zong Weizi's Family that "it is an elephant, sighing: if it is an elephant, it must be a jade cup; For Yubei, it must be a strange thing in Siyuan Town. Since then, the gradual progress of Ma Gong has never wavered. "Although this is a statement of luxury life and courtiers' fear, it provides the most valuable written historical materials for us to trace the birth and development of Zhu from the court events caused by ivory chopsticks. Zhou was the monarch in the late Shang Dynasty. Based on this calculation, refined ivory chopsticks appeared in China around 1 144 BC, that is, more than 3 100 years ago.