Chopsticks can be described as the "national quintessence" of China. Also known as "箸", but few people in China have known it, but this has been preserved in Japan. According to historians, the history of using chopsticks in China can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty. It is particularly worth mentioning that Japan and South Korea, which are adjacent to China, have followed the development of Chinese chopsticks and, after long-term development, gradually formed chopsticks that conform to their respective national conditions.
Chopsticks are widely used in Southeast Asia. Due to the influence of ancient Chinese culture, residents of Japan and the Korean peninsula also learned to eat with chopsticks. Eating with chopsticks is a culture. Although today, Japan, Japan, and Korea all have a culture of using chopsticks, due to historical reasons and the influence of local environmental factors, chopsticks are not the same in the three countries.
In Japan, chopsticks are very short, and the chopsticks are very sharp. They use wooden chopsticks.
In China, chopsticks are very long and heavy. Chopsticks are generally woody. Because of their wide area and different places, plastic chopsticks and metal chopsticks are also used.
In Korea, chopsticks are flat and are generally metal chopsticks.
Then why are there such big gaps in chopsticks?
Japanese people like to use chopsticks to hold bowls when they eat, so they don't need long chopsticks. And the Japanese love to eat fish is also related because it is more suitable for picking.
Chinese people usually have traditional seats when they eat. The tables are large and the plates are large. Because the plates are far away, people use long chopsticks.
Korean chopsticks, neither Chinese chopsticks nor Japanese chopsticks. The Korean table is a short table, and the chairman is sitting cross-legged. It can be said that between the two, but because the ingredients are different from the main Korean beans and small dish kimchi, the chopsticks are finer.
Which three kinds of chopsticks are the most difficult for foreigners to use?
Japan: Because Japanese chopsticks are very short, and the wood used to make chopsticks is not very smooth, it is very easy to control Japanese chopsticks for foreigners.
China: Because Chinese chopsticks are longer, it is more difficult for foreigners than Japanese chopsticks.
South Korea: Korean chopsticks are small and heavy and "slippery", so it is the most difficult for foreigners to use.
However, if using Korean chopsticks is easy for a foreigner, then it is absolutely no problem to use Chinese and Japanese chopsticks, so it is hard to use in Korea at a glance. Japan is the simplest, Chinese chopsticks are in the middle, although not the simplest, but China It is the birthplace of chopsticks. It is said that Daxie is the first person in the world to use chopsticks. This is worth mentioning.
After a long history of development, chopsticks have also formed a unique custom.
Chinese people use chopsticks very particularly, there is etiquette, and there are taboos. Parents from a young age educate us not to use chopsticks in our mouths, do not point to others with chopsticks, don't put chopsticks in rice, this is the etiquette on chopsticks.
There are also many folk taboos related to chopsticks. For example, during the meal, two chopsticks of different lengths cannot be placed on the table, resulting in a situation of “three long and two short”. This is very unlucky, meaning "death"; if you use chopsticks to beat the dishes, the folks have the saying that "knocking the bowl and knocking on the chopsticks and asking for a lifetime", meaning "poverty."
South Korea is also a big country with chopsticks. It’s just that the chopsticks went to the peninsula, and the peninsula threw the bamboo and abandoned it, making it all made of metal. No wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks are used. It is said that because the peninsula dishes are known as "red", long-term use of wooden chopsticks or bamboo chopsticks will cause the head of the chopsticks to be reddish and discarded. Another reason is that Koreans I loved the barbecue and found the best metal chopsticks for grilling.
The reason why Korean chopsticks are difficult to use is mainly its shape. Korean chopsticks are not Chinese cylinders, nor are they thick and thin in Japan, but flat cuboids. It is easy to use the chopsticks from your hands when you use it for the first time. To be honest, every time I see the chopsticks used by Koreans, I can't help but think of the word "stick"...
The use of chopsticks, the three countries also have huge differences.
The Chinese have always been mixed with the family, and the relatives have a dish of vegetables to each other, full of deep affection. The Japanese family is the opposite of China. Everyone has their own dining "special chopsticks" and must not be used indiscriminately. They are all fixed foods, and there is no habit of cuddling each other. It was sanitation, but the family was also "sanitary".
The Koreans are very similar to the Chinese on the table. A meal will be eaten with enthusiasm, and the love will be strong, and he will be responsible for his chopsticks.
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