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According to historians, the Chinese began to use chopsticks approximately 4-5 thousand years ago, with their only used in the cooking process - long wooden twigs very convenient lowered and removed, for example, pieces of meat from the pot of boiling water or oil.

Cutlery steel rods only about 400-500 years BC, and most likely this is due to the rapid growth of the population: the food was not enough, and the people of China cut it into small pieces that quickly prepared dish, and it was easier divided into large company. Finely chop dish there is no need to carve with a knife, but it is very convenient to take the sticks, which are also extremely easy to make and cheap, so the novelty quickly spread across the country.



Some historians associates the drop in popularity as a cutlery knife with the teachings of the sage Kung Zi, which the Western world knows as Confucius. Philosopher was a vegetarian and strongly protested against the use of a knife in the meal. He was even quoted as saying: "honest and honorable man avoids the slaughterhouse and the kitchen side and does not hold a knife on his desk».

Go sage has a significant impact on his contemporaries, so if Kung Zi really spoke like that, it certainly raised the "authority" sticks to an unattainable height.

For several decades sticks spread in neighboring countries - Japan, Korea and Vietnam, with the Japanese initially made them entirely from bamboo and used only in religious ceremonies.

During the reign of the great Chinese dynasties members of aristocratic families ate with silver chopsticks, hoping thereby to avoid poisoning: it was believed that contact with toxic substances silver turns black, but this does not always happen, for example, it does not react to cyanide, arsenic and some other poisons.

Many wonder why Asian countries rice is eaten with chopsticks, as to take it with a spoon is much easier. The fact is that in most of Asia kruglozёrny cooked rice, which is easy to stick together in clumps, and so it is quite convenient to eat with chopsticks.

By the way, some Asian companies that make chips and electronic devices before making man for the job, be sure to check out his skill with chopsticks - it allows to evaluate fine motor skills and hand coordination required in the assembly of products.

via factroom.ru