The first is to show your taste. Knife, fork and tableware were invented by Poles more than 500 years ago, and later became popular in Europe. Holding a knife and fork is more elegant and tasteful than grasping it with your hands.
But some people don't like these tableware because they think knives and forks are too troublesome to use and eat too slowly. For example, Montaigne, a French celebrity, said that he ate too fast and often bit his hand. So he never uses this seemingly heavy tableware. King Louis XIV, known as the king of the sun, never used a knife and fork. It is more convenient to eat meat by hand.
The formal table manners in the west come from Austria-Hungary. 1624, the Austrian court issued a decree to the nobles for the first time, and no one was allowed to lick fingers, spit or scratch. Keep it clean before serving. After the promulgation of this law, western nobles had systematic table manners.
As for the later time, it was gradually developed step by step, which led to such a complete etiquette regulation. Later, the representative of Europe, the British Empire, became popular after the Industrial Revolution.
The change of tableware originated in England. In19th century England, a fork with four sharp teeth has become a standard form. The evolution of fork influenced the evolution of knife. Now that the fork has the perfect function of taking food, there is no need to take food with a knife, and the knife will gradually become the familiar blunt knife. /kloc-the European knives and forks at the end of 0/7 century/kloc-the beginning of 0/8 century largely determined the tableware forms in Europe and America. The fork must be matched with the knife to cut the food, so that the food of the right size can be sent to the mouth, and both are indispensable.
Western-style knives and forks have little representative significance except that they can simply eat meat and avoid the embarrassment of grasping with their hands. Compared with the two, I really don't understand the arrogance of their crooked nuts, and their pretentious manners are superior. Do you think so?