What does the shape of chopsticks mean? What to eat in spring and autumn? A pair of chopsticks is great, which can express China culture. Many people are curious about what the shape of chopsticks means. Let me see what the shape of chopsticks has to do with you.
What does the shape of chopsticks imply? 1 Food is the most important thing for the people.
Chopsticks play the role of tableware in our daily life. When mentioned here, everyone will think of the famous saying that food is the most important thing for the people. In fact, this sentence is literally reasonable, because in the past, it was the most important thing for people to eat enough, but if we study it carefully, in fact, these were mentioned as early as in the Book of History. First of all, chopsticks are a pair of two, which are two instruments of Tai Chi in books. Chopsticks are seven inches and six inches long. At the same time, the "Liang" in the Eight Diagrams means "Yi Gua" in the mouth, and two chopsticks mean "Yi Gua" in the mouth. When people eat, a chopstick takes the initiative and a chopstick follows, which is Yin and Yang. When using chopsticks, the thumb and forefinger are above, the ring finger and little finger are below, and the middle finger is in the middle. This is a genius of heaven and earth. Chopsticks have round heads and square heads.
Chopsticks cultural circle
When it comes to countries that use chopsticks, China is definitely not the only one. Southeast Asian countries all use chopsticks, the most representative of which are China, South Korea and Japan. First of all, Korean chopsticks are mostly made of metal, unlike China chopsticks, which are mostly made of bamboo or wood. This is because Korea loves barbecue, and the metal ones will not be burnt, which shows that it has a wide range of uses.
Moreover, Korea has a deep research on chopsticks. At an Asian Cup held in Harbin, Korean players scored three-pointers accurately, but there is a phenomenon that Koreans absolutely don't use chopsticks before eating, because this will shrink their hands and is not conducive to pitching, while another country, Japan, also attaches great importance to chopsticks. Japanese chopsticks are short and sharp.
This is because most of the food eaten in Japan is raw and slippery, so it is more convenient to tie it up with chopsticks. Of course, intravenous drip is not allowed at home. From here, we can see that they are all chopsticks, but because of the different regional culture and eating habits, the shape and usage of chopsticks are different, which intuitively reflects the influence of cultural customs on things.
Chopstick diplomacy
Chopsticks can not only help people eat, but also play an important role in diplomacy. On February 2 1 972, US President Nixon visited China. During the dinner, Premier Zhou taught Nixon to use chopsticks. Unexpectedly, Nixon picked up chopsticks and ate them easily, which made Premier Zhou very wet and shocked. In fact, Nixon had already started practicing before his visit to China, so as not to be embarrassed. Nixon was very successful. When everyone finished eating, a Canadian journalist named Burns quickly took away the chopsticks. After other reporters reacted, they all said that this man was too clever, because it was a sign of diplomatic thaw in Sino-US relations and a bridge for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. On June 30th, 1998, Clinton visited Shanghai and urged to buy a pair of original chopsticks and eat with them. Cuban leader Castro also practiced chopsticks perfectly during his visit to China, but his entourage was not very skilled and dropped a piece of meat on the plate. When Castro saw this, he picked it up and ate it himself, which relieved his embarrassment. Obviously, small chopsticks can also play an important role.
Taboo of chopsticks
Using chopsticks is not casual, there are many taboos, such as not pointing at people, not picking vegetables from bottom to top and so on. Here Xiaoxu lists some common mistakes for everyone:
Unexpected misfortune
This is easy to explain, that is, chopsticks should be placed neatly, and one end should not be long and the other short, because this means that the coffin before "three long and two short" is three long boards and two short boards when there is no cover, which is very unlucky.
What does the shape of chopsticks mean? 2 0 1 means the length of chopsticks.
The standard length of chopsticks is seven inches and six minutes, which means that people have secular desires to show their essential differences from animals. Why is it called a pair of chopsticks when it is clearly two chopsticks? There are concepts of Tai Chi and Yin and Yang. This is China's philosophy, which westerners don't understand. Chopsticks homonym "fast". It means "be happy, be happy all your life".
0 2. The significance of chopsticks in life
China's traditional round-bottomed chopsticks.
Moral: the sky is round and the place is constant.
Send chopsticks to people who move to a new home.
Moral: get rich quickly and move happily.
Send chopsticks to your partner.
Moral: cooperation is sincere cooperation without seeking success.
Send chopsticks to good friends.
Moral: two trees make a forest, share joys and sorrows, live in harmony and be intimate.
Give the child chopsticks.
Moral: Express the expectation of "growing up quickly".
Send chopsticks to the elderly.
Moral: long life, happiness and health, long life.
0 3. Chopsticks are easy to use.
A pair of simple chopsticks has many functions, such as picking, poking, clamping, mixing, beeping and picking. Even at a grand banquet, as long as one pair of chopsticks is in hand, it can sweep the whole table besides drinking soup.
Chopsticks are not only convenient to use, but also cheap and good. Dr. Li Zhengdao, a famous physicist, once praised: "Chopsticks are as simple as two wooden sticks, but they skillfully use the lever principle in physics." The intersection of two chopsticks forms the fulcrum of the lever, which is light and flexible to use.
0 4. Cultural inheritance of chopsticks
A pair of chopsticks not only contains the rich feelings of China people, but also is the carrier of China national culture. Some scholars in the West praised chopsticks as the representative of ancient oriental civilization, the crystallization of China people's wisdom and wisdom, and the "fifth great invention" of China people.
A pair of chopsticks is not only a common food tool for all of us in China, but also a cultural heritage of China's 5,000-year history of civilization.
What does the shape of chopsticks imply? 3. What kind of chopsticks are the healthiest?
First, the best choice-bamboo chopsticks
When we choose chopsticks, bamboo chopsticks are the first choice and the best choice.
Second, the second choice-natural wooden chopsticks
Wooden chopsticks? Many chopsticks are made of wood. Are they all wooden chopsticks? Can I use them all? Of course not! I recommend natural wooden chopsticks. On the contrary, those wooden chopsticks painted with colored paint are the least recommended.
Third, it is least recommended that you use painted chopsticks.
Painted chopsticks are beautiful, and their shapes change greatly, but these beautiful chopsticks are not recommended for you to use in your daily life. Because heavy metals, lead, benzene and other organic solvents in coatings will have many unknown hidden dangers to the body and affect health.
Fourth, don't be greedy for cheap, throw it away-plastic chopsticks.
Plastic chopsticks, a bag of 20 pairs, 10 yuan? Sounds, looks, cheap? The most important thing is that there are many colorful choices. You can distinguish the chopsticks of the host and the guests only by color, and put the colorful ones in the cupboard, which is kind and pleasing to the eye. However, plastic chopsticks are brittle, and they are easy to deform and melt after being heated, resulting in harmful substances. Do you still want to use it?
Five, another style of chopsticks-silver chopsticks, ceramic chopsticks, stainless steel chopsticks.
In recent years, with the popularity of Korean food, silver chopsticks, China-style ceramic chopsticks and Korean stainless steel chopsticks have gradually become popular. They all look good, but they are a little heavy to use and do not feel good, especially for children and the elderly. Moreover, it has strong thermal conductivity, and eating overheated food is easy to burn your lips. Ceramic chopsticks are fragile and can't resist bumping, so they are not recommended as common tableware.
How to thoroughly clean the newly bought chopsticks?
Newly bought chopsticks need to remove viruses, bacteria and some chemicals accumulated during production and transportation. You can wash it with tap water first, then with detergent for the second time, and finally put it in a pot and blanch it with boiling water for half an hour.
Pay attention to bamboo chopsticks, and be careful to scrape off fine thorns. If the new chopsticks smell, you can soak them in vinegar for half an hour or cook them in tea for half an hour. Brand glue on newly bought chopsticks is sometimes difficult to remove, and it can be removed slowly by blowing heat with a hair dryer; You can also bake the trademark sticker a little with a lighter, so that the glue can be easily removed when it melts when heated; Apply medical alcohol (highly alcoholic solution and essential balm) to viscose, and wipe off the damaged part with paper or cloth.
More importantly, clean chopsticks thoroughly at ordinary times. Many people are generous in washing chopsticks. Rub the whole chopstick under the faucet, and then insert it into the chopstick box to wash it. As we all know, it is easy to breed bacteria on chopsticks and enter the human body with food. The correct washing method should be as follows: first, wash the surface of chopsticks, then wipe them carefully with detergent, and then put them in a disinfection cabinet for disinfection and drying, or rinse them and drain them before putting them in a chopstick box.
Please say "no" to disposable chopsticks!
CCTV exposed the hidden rules of consumption in many industries at this year's 3. 15 party. With regard to the technology of disposable chopsticks, it is shocking that disposable chopsticks are processed by chemicals such as fumigating sulfur, paraffin wax and hydrogen peroxide in the production process after processing a variety of chemical raw materials. What is even more unexpected is that in the process of processing chopsticks, workers have to "turn" chopsticks with their feet, and their feet are in close contact with chopsticks. Even the manufacturers themselves admit that "most of the disposable chopsticks now have excessive residues", and such "sanitary chopsticks are actually very unsanitary".
Disposable chopsticks, which I thought would always be safe and hygienic, not only failed to protect me, but also brought future troubles. A pair of disposable chopsticks look clean and white. They are all washed and bleached with industrial chemicals. Do you dare to use disposable chopsticks again?
Facts show that its so-called "hygiene" and "convenience" are just an illusory psychological expectation of people. Its use is essentially the same as "folding branches into chopsticks". Compared with chopsticks that need to be cleaned and disinfected every meal and do not need many production bases and complicated transportation processes, it is neither hygienic nor convenient.
All this is the result of our constant demand to improve the quality of life. As the saying goes, the disposable chopsticks exposed today will expose the gutter oil tomorrow, and I don't know what it is the day after tomorrow. These are closely related to people's livelihood, and they are all exposed one by one, which really rings a heavy alarm for each of us.