chopsticks
close Chopsticks are slender sticks made of bamboo, wood, metal and other materials to hold food or other things. A slender stick held in the fingers to pick up food or other things. It is often used as a tableware. The materials are bamboo, wood, tooth, bone, metal, etc., and the shapes are square or round. In the second and second chapter of The Scholars, "The passer-by took a pair of chopsticks, two small dishes and a dish of cured pig's head meat." Shen Congwen's "From the autobiography of literature, I read a small book and read a big book at the same time" "There is a big bamboo tube in front of a small restaurant on the side street filled with chopsticks cut from bamboo." Chopsticks are eating tools invented by the Han nationality. Archaeological data prove that in ancient times, Han ancestors had learned to use branches and bamboo sticks to pick up food. Chopsticks were called chopsticks in the ancient book "Han Feizi Yu Lao", which said that "King Zhou in the past was like chopsticks and his dustpan was terrible." King Zhou was a monarch in the late Shang Dynasty. It can be seen that as early as the 11th century BC, there were chopsticks made by ivory craftsmanship in China. That is to say, China has a history of using chopsticks for more than 3000 years. In addition, there are many folk legends about chopsticks, such as Jiang Ziya's invention of silk and bamboo chopsticks inspired by the divine bird, Daji's invention of using jade hairpins as chopsticks to please King Zhou, and the legend of Dayu's invention of chopsticks to save time by fishing for hot food from branches during flood control.