Chopsticks History

Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal length sticks that have been used as the traditional ancient kitchen and eating utensils in virtually all of East Asia for over six thousand years. Chopsticks were first used by the Chinese and later spread to countries, through cultural influence or through Chinese immigrant communities, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Nepalas well as in areas of the United States, especially California, New York, Hawaii,and cities in Canada and Australia with Chinese communities. Chopsticks are smoothed and frequently tapered, and are commonly made of bamboo plastic wood, or stainless steel. They are less commonly made from gold, silver, porcelain,jade,or ivory. Chopsticks are held in the dominant hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.

Chopsticks were invented in ancient China as early as the Shang dynasty(1766-1122 BCE) and possibly even earlier during the Xia dynasty.The earliest evidence were six chopsticks, made of bronze, 26 cm (10 inches) long and 1.1 to 1.3 cm (0.43 to 0.51 inches) wide, excavated from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang(Henan) and dated roughly to 1200 BCE; those were supposed to be used for cooking.The earliest known extant textual reference to the use of chopsticks comes from the Han Feizi, a philosophical text written by Han Fei(c. 280-233 BCE) in the 3rd century BCE.

The first chopsticks were probably used for cooking, stirring the fire, serving or seizing bits of food, and not as eating utensils. Chopsticks began to be used as eating utensils during the Han dynasty. Chopsticks were considered more lacquerware friendly than other sharp eating utensils. It was not until theMing dynasty that chopsticks came into normal use for both serving and eating. They then acquired the name kuaizi and the present shape.

The long history of chopsticks let us amazing,but do you know how the chopsticks to make now?There we have a machine which can make the chopsticks.
 
 The chopstick machine making machine line is used to make wood chopsticks from wood boards.The various types of available round timber , square timber sand small wood shall be process into the dryer square wood board length of 500mm , width of 60mm, thickness of 32-34mm , which can be used to make the chopsticks by our machine line , then you can put the materials of wood board of length:500mm width 60mm thickness 32-34mm into our following 1 to 5 machines to process into chopsticks.The usual chopstick size is: diameter of 5.5mm length less than: 240mm, and also we can make the chopstick according the size client requirements. Using this machine,you can easy to make the chopsticks what you want.