The western countries are vigorously promoting the separate meal system because it is hygienic and reduces the infection rate of digestive tract diseases.

Separate meals are good for health. Shanghai shocked the world with the epidemic of hepatitis A. During the SARS period in Guangzhou, people began to vigorously promote the separate meals system. In daily life, a person adds clean chopsticks to eat food on a plate, which greatly affects the appetite of others. In short, it is very unsanitary.

Eating separately means that the dining utensils are separated, and everyone who sits together will eat as much as they want, and they will eat as much as they can. It is not recommended to eat with the same chopsticks, such as holding vegetables, which is not in line with hygienic habits.

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Historical inheritance

Archaeologists in Shang Dynasty found from a large number of fragments of Tao Ge (Li) [a tableware similar to today's bowl, a three-legged pottery jar] that the capacity of Wei is only enough for one person to eat, and it is used for cooking. Therefore, it can be inferred that people ate at that time in a separate system of one person and one meal.

in the Zhou and Qin dynasties, people spread seats on the ground, put a console table on it, and the emperor had five seats and the doctor had two seats. This situation reflected that we were still eating separately.

during the Han dynasty, this way of sharing meals became more clear. The emperor sat on the front steps, the queen sat on one side and the ministers sat on both sides, all of which were one person and one table.

The frescoes of the Han Dynasty excavated by archaeology and the brick paintings of the Han Tomb also provide clear evidence: at that time, people sat on the floor, each with a case.

The written record of the Hongmen Banquet describes the specific situation of meal sharing for us more clearly. At the banquet, Xiang Wang and Xiang Bo sat in the east, Fan Zeng sat in the south, Pei Gong sat in the north, and Zhang Liang waited on the west. These five people were one case.

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