The fact that people started to eat and drink blood and hair, and then used tableware to eat and drink, is a sign that mankind has begun to move towards civilization. Chinese people talk about eating, not just three meals a day, quenching thirst and hunger, it often contains the Chinese people know things, understand things philosophical, Chinese food culture has been passed down from generation to generation, which as a cultural inheritance of information is the development of catering ritual utensils. The wide variety of eating utensils throughout the ages is an important part of Chinese food culture. When food culture and politics combined, its cultural significance has been developed to the extreme, the Confucian classic "Rites" clearly pointed out that: "the beginning of the rites of the beginning of the diet," that the norms of behavior in the dietary activities is the beginning of the rites, and dietary activities first through the dietary utensils, so dietary utensils in the rites of the system of prominent The status of food utensils in the ritual system. The importance of this centrally manifested in the bronze eating utensils in the Xia, Shang and Zhou period as an important ritual and the existence of the tripod also evolved into a symbol of state power. The ritual of eating expressed a rich cultural connotation in the form of eating. The culture of eating has transcended the "eating" itself and acquired a more profound social meaning.

The development of farming society so that people settled down to the community as a unit of production, began to engage in planting, farming, people's way of eating is often seated on the ground, take the fire baked and eat, with the pottery industry began to be born at this time, thus giving rise to the requirements of containers and eating utensils, from the early modeling of a simple ceramic ware, the development of the later on the use of ceramic pots, kettles, ceramic cauldrons, and other cooking utensils, and in the process also promote the development of pottery production industry. The development of the pottery production industry. Increasingly exquisite ceramic eating utensils reflect the pursuit of the ancients and the importance of beauty, which not only confirms the process of Chinese civilization, but also to see the existence of an interdependent relationship between food and beauty. As the old saying goes: "Food is not as good as beautiful utensils", the ancestors gradually understood that good food also needed exquisite tableware to accentuate, in order to achieve the perfect effect. Chinese food ritual tools, it can be said that in the Neolithic era has been basically complete, and later all the food utensils and cooking utensils, in addition to the use of raw materials and modeling changes, its utility is rarely beyond its purpose. China's food culture is with the Xia, Shang, Zhou and the Spring and Autumn bronze craft reached its heyday China's food utensils have also been further developed, food etiquette has been gradually perfected.

Xia Yao period, eating utensils or stay in the earthenware firing stage, to the Shang and Zhou times, due to the emergence of bronze smelting technology and the widespread use of bronze, food utensils have a greater development, as for the use of gold, jade, pottery, porcelain, lacquer, wood, bone, horn, ivory, bamboo and other materials made of eating utensils, is a wide range of varieties, all kinds of. The use of bronze for the production of dining utensils, the shape of its decorative or carved, or engraved, delicate pattern, the shape of the dignified. To the Western Zhou, some of the dining utensils made of bronze is also used for rituals and banquets, but also by the ruling class to give special meaning to different identities and social status of the use of dining utensils have a strict distinction between the distinction between the social inferiority and superiority of the figurative representation of some utensils to become a symbol of the ruler's supremacy and authority, which is known as the "hidden rituals in the device This is the so-called "hidden rituals in the ware". The so-called "the son of nine tripods, the vassal seven, five doctors, Yuan Shi three".

To the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Chinese people's dietary life with the continuous development of agricultural production, grain-based, supplemented by fruit, meat, vegetables, dietary tone and pattern has been initially established, more importantly, dietary etiquette is also perfected, this period with the cuisine of the day, some of the old utensils have been unsuitable for the requirements of the etiquette of that time, or to change the system or retired, and the dietary culture of the new utensil New food vessels compatible with the food culture continued to appear. For example, three-legged tripods, gei, gui, basket, square Yi, goblet, goblet, goblet and other food utensils have completely disappeared, while those vividly shaped and symbolic utensils flourished. At this time the improvement of handicraft and copper, lacquer ware, the use of a large number of food utensils production process more detailed and exquisite, but also attaches great importance to the styling art of the utensils, a variety of patterns and decorations more realistic, but also to give a certain degree of symbolic significance, which makes it has a high artistic and aesthetic value. If there is a spring and autumn to make its lotus crane square pot, the shape of up to 122 cm high, 54 cm wide, the body decorated with coiled dragon pattern, there are two openwork holes dragon ear, foot ambush with two beasts. The lid of the pot has lotus petals and a crane in the center. This pot is a grand and imposing shape, decorative and magnificent, innovative ideas, clever design, reflecting the perfect combination of the art of craftsmanship and food utensils during this period, showing a fresh and magnificent new look. At the same time for the production of these ceremonial vessels with high artistic value, but also pays great attention to its practicality, this makes its eating utensils volume weight design is more appropriate, the first thing to consider is the utility of the artifacts, in the history of China's arts and crafts also occupies an important position.

The Han Dynasty is China's food culture has a great development of the period, national unity and strength, developed agriculture, the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, promoting the Sino-foreign exchanges, coupled with the invention of greenhouse planting technology, greatly enriched the content of China's diet. Iron cooking utensils began to use in the Han Dynasty, common food utensils such as bowls, plates, cups, pots, boxes, jars, kettles, cauldrons and other daily utensils. Lacquer plus gilt tin or silver tin made into a high-grade dining gift, when the rich use of silver mouth yellow ear, gold wrong Shu cup, is this kind of ware. Pottery, copper, glass and other utensils, as well as openwork silver and gold a variety of eating utensils were widely used, but also appeared in jade, ivory, bone, lacquer wood and other kinds of eating utensils; higher quality celadon began to be used in the food utensils. These materials produced by the food and drink rituals of good quality, fine processing, comparable to gold, silver, and became a favorite daily necessities of the aristocracy at that time, in the inheritance of the previous generation on the basis of food culture, the initial formation of a more complete system. This period of the variety of eating utensils has been more complete, different shapes of colorful utensils more rich and diverse, at the same time, the use of different eating utensils is relatively certain, and all seek to match sets, cups, plates, bowls and dishes, pots and pans urns, a full range of varieties, complete functionality. Spoon and spoon are used for soup, while drinking utensils such as jiao, cup and mug are used for drinking. In terms of craftsmanship, they were light and delicate, more life-like, and more practical. As recorded in the history books, at that time, the eating utensils pay attention to "carving text carving lacquer". To the Eastern Han Dynasty, porcelain gradually became the most common eating utensils, production is very large, the production of materials is also very complete, the gradual reduction of bronze, and was replaced by lacquer, porcelain. Because of the excellent craftsmanship, quality, but also exported overseas. The classification of eating utensils than the previous generation is also more and more detailed, tea set, wine set has been independent from the traditional eating utensils, bottles of utility gradually developed into exquisite furnishings; bowls, plates, bottles and pots have changed the most.

Tang Dynasty social life is stable, with the development of agriculture, the economy is becoming increasingly powerful, people's social living standards have improved, diet is also gradually rich, coupled with the art of handicrafts continue to progress, which in turn contributed to the rich development of food and drink ware. And the Song Dynasty commercial development of the emergence of the citizen class, so that the culture of the city came into being, the urbanization of the way of life is to promote the prosperity of food culture and prosperity, people pay more attention to the food and wonderful eating utensils to match, to achieve the highest level of diet. In the Tang and Song dynasties, food rituals and food exquisite match beyond the previous generation, food utensils have become a fine art. Tang Dynasty metal technology, ceramic technology than the previous generation has made great progress, the use of gold and silver technology to make a variety of wine and food utensils. Tang and Song Dynasty ceramic craft more outstanding achievements, firing a variety of porcelain kilns throughout the country, the most representative of the Tang Dynasty celadon, white porcelain and "Tang Three Colors" demonstrated the highest level of ceramic craftsmanship, with such a ceramic craft made many fine eating utensils are more known for their gorgeous and beautiful. Celadon process pays great attention to the interior decoration in the tableware landscape, fish and insects, birds and animals and gods and figures and other patterns, very vivid image, such as still important artistic value of the "Tang Three Colors", at that time has been all kinds of high-level banquets on the expensive eating utensils.

This time not only on the production of tableware focus on the exquisite shape, pay more attention to the combination of food and tableware focus on the color contrast and harmony of the form. Such as in Du Fu's ancient and modern masterpiece "Lillian line" in the "purple camel's peak out of the cui kettle, the water essence of the plate rows of vegetal scales. Rhinoceros chopsticks to eat a long time not under the luan knife cut the empty stranded" description of the people's daily diet, into the color harmony of the art of the realm of aesthetics. At that time, not only pay attention to food, ware in the shape and color of the harmony of the match, but also in the whole of a seat on the collocation of dishes, is very concerned about the overall beauty of the composition.

Ming Dynasty, with the rapid development of social and economic development and urban prosperity, the development of its handicrafts to further promote the development of food culture, especially the development of ceramic art, at this time, the color glaze and painting color development to a very high level, this period of ceramic tableware style rich, varied, colorful, and decorative more "with a white ground blue flowers, five-color, for the crown of the ancient and modern. For the ancient and modern crown." At that time the famous porcelain tableware, there are excellent painters in the porcelain tire on the splash, so that the monochrome blue and white porcelain has a thick and thin variations of the rich layers, giving a person a sense of fun, greatly increasing the artistic effect of tableware. At this time the utensils alone on the decorative point of view, inherited the Tang and Song dynasties on the basis of the art of decoration has been a great development, a variety of flowers and fruits of the utensils image of realism, insects, fish, birds and animals out of the call of duty, the characters of the realism, to achieve a very high artistic mood. "The center painting double lion rolling ball for the top grade, mandarin ducks heart of the second, flower heart of the second. Cup outside the blue and green flowers, exquisite style". Visible at that time not only the status quo of tableware variety, and firing technology is very high, rich and colorful, colorful decorations, texture glossy and fine, these utensils for the use of the court nobles dining, and these eating utensils and a wide variety of various types of food at that time, forming a colorful food culture. To the Qing dynasty palace food utensils are also very elaborate, began to appear enamel, and also decorated with "five blessings", "longevity" and other auspicious blessings, in addition to more elaborate is that the food utensils in the painting decoration is also for a certain kind of dishes, painted with the contents of the dishes related to the Patterns, such as the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar each year, the Qing Palace Imperial House made of coquettish fruits, to be placed in the enamel bowl painted with "magpie bridge fairy crossing" pattern, the pattern is taken from the magpie bridge Cowherd and Weaver Maiden heavenly meeting myths and legends, such dishes and utensils in the contents of the same, the color on the combination of harmony, it can be said that in the diet and utensils with the From the content to the form have taken a big step forward.

Chinese food culture has a long history, food culture and civilization in sync, she is China's pride, but also the most easily accepted by the world. In the development of food culture in the development of food utensils play an extremely important role in the development of food, food dishes also need exquisite tableware baking, in order to achieve the perfect effect. Successive generations of craftsmen in the food utensils on the painstaking management and innovation, so that the Chinese food culture shine.