The Invention Of Chopsticks Is Related To Food
2017-05-23
Our ancestors invented chopsticks to do with food. The han ethnic group started the agricultural lifestyle early on and the main crop was the adaptable corn. There are two main characteristics of the millet grain. One is that the grain is small and the rough exterior is not easily removed. In the first time our ancestors may be pounded the grain millet porridge to eat often also doping some wild vegetables, the leaves like boiled together in order to improve the taste and save food. According to some people, the original meaning of the word "tea" is mixed with wild vegetables and leaves. So far in the northwest region still have a kind of food called "camellia" fry flour and then mixed with fat things like sweet almond edible when flush with hot water. The word "tea" in the word "tea" here is the original meaning. Cantonese people have so far called breakfast "early tea" a "tea" that is actually closer to the original meaning. The word "eat" in a hunan accent is very close to the word "tea". In some parts of north China, the "sticky porridge" is the same as "rubbing". These phenomena indicate that "tea" was originally a food. Tea, which is more expensive to eat, is more likely to interfere with the flow of tea rather than the import of tea. This is where our ancestors invented chopsticks.
In the west, it was the earliest nomadic food that was cooked and cooked, which could be cut into small pieces and eaten in the hand. The main food of the indians is that rice is easy to go to the shell and can be boiled and cooked and can be eaten by hand. The daily food of our ancestors is a kind of sticky, semi-liquid food that can't be eaten with your hands and can't be eaten with your hand to affect wild vegetables and leaves. There may be a clever ancients who came in handy with sticks and things like that and tried to put the field or leaves into the entrance and that's the original form of the chopsticks. The earliest name for chopsticks is "chopsticks". The most primitive function of chopsticks, which can be seen in the pronunciation and glyphs, is not essential eating tools. But there was little wooden skewers, can't call it chopsticks chopsticks are called chopsticks mainly depends on the people must have techniques and using chopsticks to use chopsticks is required to pass through practice hard to master. Our ancestors found that the method of eating the leaves of wild vegetables in a small stick, such as a small wooden stick, was then followed by an imitation of the number of sticks being fixed to two. Practice makes perfect ancient people use small wooden skewers skill is higher and higher until the two stick son makes swoop surprisingly flexible chopsticks as his fingers was born. In this case, it is necessary to define the chopsticks as two sticks and their skills.