It can be seen from some unearthed cultural relics and data records that knives, forks and chopsticks were actually invented by China people, but they were gradually eliminated by us in the process of continuous development. The earliest chopsticks in China were unearthed in Yinxu, Anyang. Chopsticks were used as tableware in Shang Dynasty. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, nobles began to use chopsticks. Eating with chopsticks became a symbol of social status, and later it gradually spread to the people, while knives and forks entered the kitchen and became kitchen utensils.

Why did China people choose chopsticks instead of knives and forks in the long history? "Book of Rites" Zheng Xuan Note:? Slaughter creatures with soil and eat them with guns. ? It means that in ancient times, there was no pot, and food was baked with mud. Of course, you can't hold it directly with your hands. The clever ancients thought of using two branches to manage food. This is the original prototype of chopsticks.

A pair of ordinary chopsticks, seemingly simple two slender sticks, have undergone thousands of years of polishing and evolution in China before they become all kinds of flexible dining tools we use now.

This will start with the cultural connotation of China. Fuxi Tian Kai has two lives, two lives, three lives and three lives. Since ancient times, we have paid special attention to even things, thinking that they symbolize auspiciousness and smoothness. Giving up knives and forks and choosing chopsticks is mainly determined by the cultural connotation of China people.

First of all, what do China people value? A gift? In ancient times, when the nobles held a large banquet, the etiquette chef first fished out the food from the tripod with chopsticks and distributed it to everyone in the seat. Then everyone used his own knife and fork or chopsticks. This is not only the national etiquette, but also the common people eating around the table. If everyone eats a dish with a knife and fork together, they will touch it, which is very impolite. At this time, chopsticks show its advantages very well. It can flexibly hold the food in front of itself without touching other people's tableware.

In fact, the chopsticks etiquette on the dining table is very particular. Children will be educated from an early age. Don't rummage when chopsticks are filled with food. Just hold the food in front of them and don't cross the line. Also, China people are more introverted. China people's welcome ceremony is to bow, while foreigners' welcome ceremony is to open their hands inward and hold others' or face-to-face gifts with their hands. When eating, China people use chopsticks to exert their strength inward, while foreigners use knives and forks to exert their strength outward, which appropriately reflects our introverted personality in China.

Diet culture and habits also have a great relationship. Our food culture is mainly influenced by farming culture, and knives and forks are spread to the west through nomadic people, so the western food culture is influenced by nomadic culture. Primitive humans lived by hunting, so our ancestors created knives and forks. It was not until after the agricultural revolution that planting and feeding techniques appeared and agricultural civilization was formed. We gradually changed our eating habits, and people gradually got used to using chopsticks in order to adapt to the new eating characteristics.

Different eating habits are also important reasons. The ripeness of our food is the first criterion, while westerners think that raw food is the first criterion. At first, we humans and other animals also ate raw food. As we entered the farming civilization, we began to eat more kinds of food, and gradually changed the habit of eating raw food to cook, because cooking was the simplest and most effective cooking method at that time. Cooked food has rotted, so knives and forks are far less effective than chopsticks, so chopsticks gradually replace knives and forks as our usual tableware.

On the other hand, nomadic people are used to eating raw. For example, when they go hunting and catching animals, the first thing they do is to cut meat and eat it raw. Although the picture is a little uncomfortable, it is true. Their eating habits prompted them to carry knives, so they formed the habit of eating with knives and forks.

During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Horse, CCTV? Chopsticks? The theme of public service advertisement is very attractive. The advertisement describes the life of China people celebrating the Spring Festival. Taking chopsticks as the emotional carrier, it shows the story of people of all ethnic groups in China and chopsticks, as well as overseas Chinese compatriots in other countries. Although we are in a foreign country, they think we are connected. A pair of bamboo chopsticks carries various traditions and family virtues unique to China.

The use of chopsticks, a traditional cultural element in China, shows people of different ages' experiences and feelings about chopsticks: children taste the ups and downs of life for the first time, old people taste the happiness of their children and grandchildren through chopsticks, single people find the warmth of human feelings through adding a pair of chopsticks, and people together find each other's spiritual support through chopsticks. It not only represents a culture, but also conveys the feelings of China, inspires the feelings of China people, shows the spirit of China and expresses the feelings of China.

Chopsticks homophonic? Quick? , meaning? Happy life? . Thousands of years of chopsticks culture is not only a symbol of our Chinese civilization, but also bears the feelings of Chinese descendants for thousands of years, witnessing the continuous growth of the long river of history.