China is the first country to use chopsticks. According to historical records, chopsticks have been used since the Yin and Shang Dynasties, with a history of more than 3,000 years.
China is the first country to use chopsticks. According to historical records, chopsticks have been used since the Yin and Shang Dynasties, with a history of more than 3,000 years.
1. When did the Chinese start using chopsticks?
There has long been a question about the chopsticks Chinese people use when eating. According to literature records, during the Zhou and Qin dynasties, people generally liked to grab food with their hands. "Book of Rites, Qu Li" records that during a dinner party, the pilaf should not be passed on indiscriminately or the rice stuck to the hand should be put back. Until the Han Dynasty, although there were many stories of using "chopsticks", the "Historical Records" said: "Chopsticks" are like pots. What is particularly puzzling is that in many unearthed artifacts, cups, plates, bowls, plates, hooks, forks and other micro-objects are not uncommon, but chopsticks have not been found. After liberation, a copper coffin tomb was discovered near Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan. There were more than 90 kinds of copper-made bulls and horses, spears and swords, hoes and sickles and chopsticks in the tomb. If this identification is correct, there will be no doubts about chopsticks, and the use of chopsticks has become more common in the Han Dynasty.
2. Which countries in the world use chopsticks?
Chopsticks are one of the symbols of Chinese food culture, and later spread to the Korean peninsula, Japan, Vietnam and other Chinese character cultural circles. At present, chopsticks are used as daily food tools in various countries in the world, including Chinese, North Korean, South Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Singapore and Malaysia. The dietary tools in other countries are roughly divided into two types: one is the European, American and Latin American countries that use knives, forks and spoons. The second is countries that use hands to pilaf directly, such as India and some countries and regions in Africa, West Asia, and Southeast Asia.