1. China is the birthplace of chopsticks.

Eating with chopsticks has a history of at least 3,000 years, making it the mother country of eating with chopsticks in the world. Chopsticks look like very simple two small thin sticks, but they have the functions of picking, plucking, clamping, mixing, grilling, etc. They are easy to use, cheap and good-quality. Chopsticks are also a unique type of tableware in the world today. Anyone who has used chopsticks, whether Chinese or foreigners, all admires the inventor of chopsticks. But who invented it? When was creation born? No one can answer this question now. Even in ancient China, no written information can be found to record this great contribution to human civilization. Perhaps our ancestors lacked writing at the time, or perhaps all the books recording chopsticks were lost? In short, the only answer to this unsolved mystery is "no historical record". Of course, when studying chopstick culture, it is not impossible to find no circumstantial evidence.

2. Historical development

The main opportunity for the birth of chopsticks should be that cooked food is hot. In ancient times, because there were no metal utensils and animal bones were short, extremely brittle, and difficult to process, our ancestors would pick thin bamboos and branches for cooked food. Back then, in a wilderness environment, humans lived in caves in dense forests and bushes, and the most convenient materials were trees and bamboo branches. Because of this, small sticks and thin bamboos were fiddled with by ancestors when they were roasting food, and they were used to grab hot food. Stirring when cooking millet, etc., the prototype of chopsticks gradually appeared. This is the inevitable development law of human beings in special environments. Let’s study it from the current shape of chopsticks. It also has the characteristics of the original bamboo sticks. Even after more than 4,000 years of development, its originality remains unchanged.

Of course, any legend is always made through the selection, tailoring, fiction, exaggeration, exaggeration and even fantasy processing of people of all dynasties, and Dayu’s creation of chopsticks is no exception. It is the process of making chopsticks that has been gradually explored by ordinary people for thousands of years, and is concentrated on the typical figure of Dayu. In fact, the birth of chopsticks should be the collective wisdom of the ancestors, not the credit of any one person. However, chopsticks may have originated in the era of King Yu. After hundreds of years or even years of development and popularization, they became tableware used together with daggers in the Shang Dynasty.