Chopsticks are tableware with national characteristics invented by China people. There are many folklore about chopsticks, such as Jiang Ziya's invention of silk and bamboo chopsticks inspired by the divine bird, da ji's invention of Hosta chopsticks to please people, and Dayu's invention of branch chopsticks to save water and time.
In today's society, the name of chopsticks has become commonplace, but experts and scholars still call chopsticks chopsticks or chopsticks in calligraphy, poetry and articles. There is no such thing as "forgetting the beginning" in Tubeng Fish Rain.
How to wash chopsticks to ensure cleanliness?
Many people are generous in washing chopsticks. They put the whole chopstick under the tap and rubbed it loudly. After wiping, they inserted it into the chopsticks tube and washed it. As everyone knows, not only chopsticks are not thoroughly cleaned, but also bacteria can easily breed and enter the gastrointestinal tract during meals, causing gastrointestinal diseases. There are also options to soak in detergent. Actually, there is no need to soak. After a long time, some chemicals in the detergent will enter the chopsticks.
Proper storage and cleaning methods
1. In our daily life, we usually use bamboo chopsticks, but few are made of metal. So when we wash, we clean chopsticks with a soft rag, dry them and store them. Try to keep a dry environment.
Second, the newly bought chopsticks must be washed with clean water first, with detergent if necessary, and then boiled in boiling water for about half an hour and dried.
Note: when cleaning chopsticks, you must not rub hard, which will easily destroy the protective layer on the surface of chopsticks. The original smooth surface will easily become rough, which will lead to reckless bacteria residue, or chemical disinfection and chemical residue, which is very bad for human health.
Skills of using chopsticks
It is suggested that chopsticks should not be used for more than half a year. If you use chopsticks for more than half a year, you should immediately replace them with new ones to avoid potential safety hazards to your body, because chopsticks used for a long time are easy to breed various molds and cause symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.
Be sure to check whether chopsticks have moldy spots before use, because chopsticks are prone to mildew in wet environment. If you find similar spots, don't use them. Replace the dining tools immediately. If you find that the color of chopsticks has changed, please replace them immediately, because the quality of chopsticks has changed at this time, which may be caused by the residue of food and detergent, and the accumulation of bacteria will change the color. If chopsticks are bent and deformed, it means that they have been left in a humid environment for too long, and the shelf life is probably over. When chopsticks have obvious sour taste or bad smell, they must be seriously polluted. Don't continue to use them.
However, until now, "chopsticks" can only be called "chopsticks", and no one can understand it when people cross back today. Even today, "chopsticks" have not completely replaced the "chopsticks" in Chinese dialects. From the map, only the southeast coast (Taizhou, Wenzhou, Fuzhou, Chaozhou) has retained the saying "Zhu". For example, Chaozhou dialect, which belongs to Minnan dialect, uses chopsticks, while Meizhou Hakka dialect, which belongs to Guangdong province in the north, already uses both chopsticks and chopsticks, and then goes north to Jiangxi Ganyu District (Nanchang), where chopsticks have only one saying. This means that the change from "chopsticks" to "chopsticks" must first occur in the north.
Precautions for use
Don't bite chopsticks when eating. Don't fry food with chopsticks. Do not use acidic or alkaline detergent to clean chopsticks. Don't rub chopsticks hard.
The history of mankind is an evolutionary history. With the improvement of cooking methods, its tableware has been continuously developed. In primitive society, everyone grabbed food with their hands. In the Neolithic Age, most of our ancestors lived by cooking. Mi Dou, the staple food, is boiled into porridge, while vegetables and meat, the non-staple food, are boiled into juicy soup. It is very inconvenient to take a spoonful of vegetable meat from soup, but it is very convenient to hold a piece of vegetable with chopsticks. Therefore, the Book of Rites Quli says, "Soup contains dishes, but no dishes." Zheng Xuan noticed, "If you carry it, it's still good." Therefore, soup was the mainstream in the Neolithic Age, so it was very inconvenient to drink soup with a spoon, and it was even more impossible to catch hot thin soup with your hands, so chopsticks became the most ideal tableware.
In short, the emergence of chopsticks is not isolated. As early as the middle Neolithic Age, daggers and spoons were found in Yangshao cultural sites. When history advanced to the late Neolithic Age, people's wisdom developed to a certain extent and their living conditions improved. Eating with a spoon alone can no longer adapt to the evolution of cooking, and the appearance of chopsticks conforms to this trend. But in the Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago, Zhu was still in its embryonic stage. After hundreds of years of continuous evolution, two sticks with the same length were gradually formed in the Shang Tang era. Then it developed to the end of the Shang Dynasty. In order to meet the needs of his king's luxurious aristocratic life, he ordered elephant hunting and saw teeth to make elephant chopsticks.