{"id":3235,"date":"2019-03-29T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2021-01-06T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:18:51","slug":"who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented The First Chopsticks in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chinese invented the world&#8217;s first pair of chopsticks. As early as the Shang Dynasty in China, chopsticks have appeared, and it has a history of more than 3,000 years. The ease of use of chopsticks has spread it to neighboring Asian countries such as North Korea and Japan, and other countries have begun to use this great invention.<br \/>\nSo, what is the origin of chopsticks? Is there any need to pay attention to the use of chopsticks?<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#1The_meaning_of_chopsticks\" title=\"1.The meaning of chopsticks\">1.The meaning of chopsticks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#2The_origin_of_chopsticks\" title=\"2.The origin of chopsticks\">2.The origin of chopsticks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#3The_evolution_of_chopsticks\" title=\"3.The evolution of chopsticks\">3.The evolution of chopsticks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#4Development_of_chopsticks\" title=\"4.Development of chopsticks\">4.Development of chopsticks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#5What_is_the_real_Chinese_chopsticks\" title=\"5.What is the real Chinese chopsticks?\">5.What is the real Chinese chopsticks?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/who-invented-the-first-chopsticks-in-china.html\/#6How_to_use_chopsticks\" title=\"6.How to use chopsticks\">6.How to use chopsticks<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1The_meaning_of_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>1.The meaning of chopsticks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-meaning-of-chopsticks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-meaning-of-chopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"The meaning of chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-meaning-of-chopsticks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-meaning-of-chopsticks-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSlender sticks that hold food or other things in your fingers can be made of bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic, etc., and the shapes are square or round, and are used as tableware.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2The_origin_of_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>2.The origin of chopsticks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-origin-of-chopsticks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-origin-of-chopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"The origin of chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-origin-of-chopsticks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-origin-of-chopsticks-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChina has used tableware very early. The history of spoons is about 8,000 years. The history of forks is about 4,000 years. The time limit for using chopsticks is still uncertain, but at least 3,000 years old.<br \/>\nThere are many folk legends about chopsticks. One is that the ginger tooth was inspired by the god bird to invent the silk bamboo chopsticks. One way is that Da Ji invented the jade chopsticks for the sake of King Zhou, and there is another saying that when the water is controlled by Da Yu, In order to save time, chopsticks were invented by taking hot food from the branches. The length of ordinary chopsticks is about 22-24 cm. There are many handicrafts in chopsticks, and more traditional crafts are incorporated into the design, which has become a favorite choice for people, and is also popular among foreigners.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3The_evolution_of_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>3.The evolution of chopsticks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-evolution-of-chopsticks.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-evolution-of-chopsticks.png\" alt=\"The evolution of chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-evolution-of-chopsticks.png 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/The-evolution-of-chopsticks-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the primitive society, people grab food by hand. In the Neolithic Age, people began to use the cooking method, but it was extremely inconvenient to use the spoon to eat hot things, so the invention &#8220;Zh\u00f9&#8221; was invented.<br \/>\n\u201cZh\u00f9\u201d slowly followed the trend. In the Xia Dynasty four thousand years ago, \u201cZh\u00f9\u201d was still in its infancy. After hundreds of years of continuous evolution, the Shang Dynasty era gradually formed two small sticks of the same length.<\/p>\n\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4Development_of_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>4.Development of chopsticks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Development-of-chopsticks.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Development-of-chopsticks.jpeg\" alt=\"Development of chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Development-of-chopsticks.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Development-of-chopsticks-300x192.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen you start to learn chopsticks, there is a process of getting started, but once you are proficient, you will be able to eat with ease. This chopstick technique has gone through a very long process.<br \/>\nThe reason why chopsticks are called chopsticks is that people must have the technology of using chopsticks, and the technique of using chopsticks requires hard work to master. Our ancestors discovered that after using the method of using small wooden sticks to eat the leaves of wild vegetables in the tea, they would imitate them, and finally fixed the number of small wooden sticks to two. Practice makes perfect, the ancients used the skills of small wooden sticks higher and higher, until the two small wooden sticks made up and down, cleverly as flexible as their own fingers, chopsticks were born.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5What_is_the_real_Chinese_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>5.What is the real Chinese chopsticks?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/What-is-the-real-Chinese-chopsticks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/What-is-the-real-Chinese-chopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"What is the real Chinese chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/What-is-the-real-Chinese-chopsticks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/What-is-the-real-Chinese-chopsticks-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst of all, chopsticks are round on one side and square on one side. The circle symbolizes the sky, the square symbolizes the earth, and corresponds to &#8220;the sky is round, the earth is square&#8221;; this is the Chinese understanding of the basic principles of the world;<br \/>\nSecondly, when holding chopsticks, the index finger of the thumb is on the top, the little finger of the ring finger is below, and the middle finger is in the middle. It is the image of heaven, earth, people, and three talents. This is the Chinese understanding of the relationship between man and the world.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6How_to_use_chopsticks\"><\/span><strong>6.How to use chopsticks<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-to-use-chopsticks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-to-use-chopsticks.jpg\" alt=\"How to use chopsticks\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-to-use-chopsticks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/How-to-use-chopsticks-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt is not unique to use chopsticks gestures and methods of use, but they are all similar.<br \/>\nThe chopsticks above are controlled with the thumb, forefinger and middle finger. It is critical that the chopsticks below be fixed, only the chopsticks above, and then the food.<br \/>\nThe heads of the two chopsticks are put together, and the chopsticks are pointed at the tip, so it is easy to pick up the food.<br \/>\nThere are usually two ways to hold the chopsticks. The hands are placed in the back part, and the fingertip contact position is the middle part of the chopsticks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Traditional grip 1:<br \/>\nThe chopsticks above are controlled by the thumb, forefinger and middle finger: the thumb and the middle finger are pinched, and the upper one can move.<br \/>\nThe chopsticks below should be fixed (usually pressed with the tiger&#8217;s mouth and the ring finger), and only the chopsticks on the top are clipped.<\/li>\n<li>Traditional grip 2:<br \/>\nThe chopsticks above are controlled with the thumb and forefinger: the thumb and forefinger are pinched, and the one above can move.<br \/>\nThe chopsticks below should be fixed (usually pressed with the tiger&#8217;s mouth and the middle finger), and only the chopsticks on the food should be clipped.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese invented the world&#8217;s first pair of chopsticks. 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