Chopsticks were called after the mid-Qing Dynasty.
This soup is for people who eat vegetables. -"Book of Rites Quli". Note: "People today may call it hairpin."
For elephants, and Ji Zi. Hey. -"Historical Records Chronology of Twelve Governors"
I threw away the food bar and the cup. I can't eat or drink. -Don Li Bai, It's Hard to Go
Drop out of school and sigh. -Qing Zhou Rong's Biography of the Taro Old Man
Chapter 22 of the Scholars: "The waiter brought a pair of chopsticks, two small plates and another plate of bacon."
Shen Congwen's autobiography, I read both a small book and a big book: "There is a millet shop on the side street, and there is a big bamboo tube in front of the door, which contains chopsticks cut from bamboo."
Chopsticks were called chopsticks in ancient times, and the ancient book Han Feizi Yu Lao said, "The past is like chopsticks, but Ji Zi is terrible." Zhou Wang was the monarch at the end of Shang Dynasty, which shows that chopsticks made of ivory appeared in China as early as 1 1 century BC. In other words, the recorded history of using chopsticks in China has exceeded 3,000 years. In addition, there are many folk legends about chopsticks, such as Jiang Ziya's invention of bamboo and silk chopsticks inspired by the divine bird, da ji's invention of chopsticks with a hairpin to win the favor of Zhou Wang, and the legend of Dayu's invention of chopsticks to save time in taking hot food from branches during water control.
Chopsticks were collectively called "chopsticks" in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Chopsticks have many names. In the pre-Qin period, they were called "bears" or "pods". Zheng Xuan commented: "Here, there are chopsticks. Today, people call it chopsticks carrying. " Sima Qian, a famous historian in Han Dynasty, called the chopsticks of Shang and Zhou Dynasties "chopsticks" when he wrote Historical Records, and wrote them as ancient "wooden chopsticks". The word "embarrassing" appeared again in the Han Dynasty. Li Bai's poem "Difficult to Walk" in Sui and Tang Dynasties said: "If you don't drink, you won't eat"; Du Fu's poem "Two Ways" said: "The rhinoceros is tired of drinking for a long time, and the knife is cut empty." From the poems of two great poets, we know that the words "Yao" and "Yao" are common in the Tang Dynasty. But since the Tang Dynasty, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have all been called "Miao". However, the name Zhu did not remain in the end, but changed in the Ming Dynasty. 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.
In today's society, the names of chopsticks have become commonplace. However, experts and scholars still call chopsticks "chopsticks" or "chopsticks" in calligraphy, poetry and articles, instead of "forgetting the roots" as Peng Yu said.