Chopsticks, traditional Chinese dining tools, were invented in China.

Chinese people have been using chopsticks for thousands of years. As early as the Shang Dynasty, chopsticks existed. "Han Feizi Yu Lao" records: "In the past, Zhou was like a chopstick, and the chopsticks were terrible." , the "箸" here refers to chopsticks. According to archaeological discoveries, the earliest chopsticks in my country were copper chopsticks, which were unearthed from Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province.

In fact, our ancestors were not only the first to learn to use chopsticks, but also used knives and forks and other dining tools much earlier than European countries. For example, a bundle of 51 dinner forks was unearthed in Luoyang, Henan. Dining tools, this shows that our ancestors have already known how to use forks very early.

Chopsticks have a profound historical and cultural heritage. In traditional Chinese culture, the round chopsticks symbolize the sky and the square ones symbolize the earth, corresponding to the round sky and the earth. This is the Chinese people’s understanding of people and the world. Over the course of thousands of years of historical development, the Chinese have fully demonstrated the functions and connotations of chopsticks.

With the development of the times, we now have more and more types and styles of chopsticks to choose from, such as stainless steel, wood, plastic, ivory, etc. There is a paragraph in the forty-fourth chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions" about Grandma Liu's embarrassment when eating. The pair of long, heavy and luxurious chopsticks are ivory chopsticks inlaid with gold. Grandma Liu saw it and said: "This fork" The crawler is heavier than the shovel we have there. How can we pick it up? ?That made everyone laugh.

Chopsticks originated in China, and were later spread to Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries. It can be said that many countries in Asia have the habit of using chopsticks. However, due to different eating habits and customs, the styles of chopsticks in different countries are slightly different. For example, the Japanese live near the sea and often eat fish. For this reason, the heads of their chopsticks are relatively pointed, mainly to facilitate the separation of fish and bones.

From top to bottom, the differences between Japanese and Korean chopsticks

So, from the above two photos, it can be roughly seen that Chinese chopsticks are relatively long, and Korean chopsticks are medium. It is basically made of stainless steel and is relatively flat, while the Japanese ones are short and pointed.

There are many legends about chopsticks in history. For example, it is said that Dayu often ate outdoors when he was controlling floods. Because he was pressed for time, he often ate in a hurry, but the soup and food were too hot. If he didn't get burned, he would use branches to pick up food. This was the first prototype of chopsticks. Of course, legends are just legends, not official history.