2024年5月9日发(作者：电脑ktv点歌系统软件)

筷子的历史

Having their origins in China, chopsticks are used in many Asian countries. The

first chopsticksweremade

pringandAutumnperiod,copperandiron chopstickscame into

being.

icksare

called"Kuaizi"inChinese and were called"Zhu" in ancient times. Chinese people

havebeen using kuaizi as one of the main tableware for more than 3,000 was

recorded in Liji (The Book of Rites) that chopsticks were used in the ShangDynasty

(1600 BC - 1100 BC). It was mentioned in Shiji (the Chinese history book)by Sima Qian

(about 145 BC) that Zhou, the last king of the Shang Dynasty (around1100 BC), used

ivory chopsticks. Experts believe the history of wood or bamboochopsticks can be

dated to about 1,000 years earlier than ivory chopsticks. Bronzechopsticks were

invented in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1100 BC - 771 BC). Lacquerchopsticks

fromthe Western Han (206 BC - 24 AD) were discovered in Mawangdui,China. Gold

and silver chopsticks became popular in the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907).It was believed

that silver chopsticks could detect poisons in food.

The History of Chopsticks

Though(虽然)chopsticks are used in many Asian(亚洲的)countries today,they

have their beginnings in China. Chinese history says that the Chinesehad chopsticks

as far back as the Xia Dynasty(朝代). In the Spring

andAutumnPeriodcopper(铜)andironchopsticksappeared.

WitheHanDynastycamelacquered(上漆)chopsticksfollowedbygoldandsilverchopsticks

in later dynasties. Today we have chopsticks made of most expensive are

made from elephants tusks and hard green stone.筷子的历史

Chopsticksplay an important rolein Chinesefoodculture. Chopsticksareapairof

small equal-length taperedsticks, which aregenerally believedtohaveoriginatedin

ancient China, showingthespecial longstandingcivilization of thenation. They

arethetraditional eatingutensilsof China, andarealsowidely usedin Japan, Korea,

Taiwan, andVietnam.

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Thepiecesof foodweresmall enough that they negatedtheneedfor

knivesatthedinner table, andchopsticksbecamestapleutensils. It isalsothought

thatConfucius, avegetarian, advisedpeoplenot touseknivesat

thetablebecausekniveswouldremindthem of theslaughterhouse.

For westernerswhoareusedtotheknifeandfork, tolearn howtousechopsticksisn’t

an easy task, but onceyou master them, they er

many western scholarspraisechopsticksagreat crystallization ofChinesewisdom.

筷子的起源

According to historical evidence, the Chinese have used chopsticks since the

time of theShang Dynasty (ca 1766 - 1066 BCE). The first sticks used as eating utensils

were twigs thatthe hungriest eaters used to scoop food into their mouths. This

invention obviously broughtadded convenience to eating as the sticks made it easier

to handle steaming hot food. Thesame ingenious idea was undoubtedly conceived in

other parts of the world as well, butevidence shows that elsewhere spoon-like

utensils eventually achieved greater popularity atthe expense of chopsticks.

筷子流传的原因

The reason why chopsticks became a fixture of the Chinese table setting may be

the fact thatlocal food is often chopped up into small pieces and only rapidly heated,

which makes itespecially suitable for chopsticks. Another more philosophical

explanation for the developmentis that the revered philosopher and vegetarianKong

Zi, orConfucius, would have hadantipathies towards handling knives at the dinner

table. He considered using knives to tear atfood to be a show of barism. According to

this theory then, the fact that chopsticks becamethe main eating utensils is evidence

that civilized behavior gradually replaced a culture markedby brutish knife toting.

Whatever the truth may be, the use of chopsticks spread from China toKorea and

Japan around the year

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500." And the populations of these three nations have tightlyheld on to their

chopsticks ever since.

筷子礼节中国行得通，日本韩国接受不了

1."7 million cubic meters of year, the central government added a

five percent tax to disposable chopsticks to helpcurb waste.

All those thinking about traveling to China should learn to use chopsticks, as

knives and forkscan only be found at the classiest of restaurants. Once you get the

knack of using them, it mayeven start to seem cruel to stick a sharp metallic object

like the fork into the mouth.

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