What are the taboos of chopsticks?
What are the taboos of chopsticks? We in China eat with chopsticks every day. Chopsticks are too common in China's life. Chopsticks have different meanings besides eating. The following is a detailed introduction to the taboos of chopsticks.
Chopsticks 1 1 What are the taboos if anything happens?
This refers to putting chopsticks on tables of different lengths before or during meals. This practice is unlucky, and people usually call it "three long and two short". It means "death". Because China people are used to putting coffins after death, coffins are composed of two short boards, with three long boards at the bottom of each side, and the coffins made of five boards together happen to be unlucky, so they are extremely unlucky.
2. The fairy guide way:
This is an unacceptable way to hold chopsticks, that is, thumb, middle finger, ring finger and little finger hold chopsticks, and index finger sticks out. This is called "cursing the street" in the eyes of Beijingers. Because when you eat, your index finger sticks out and always points at others. When Beijingers generally extend their index fingers to each other, most of them have the meaning of accusation. There is another situation that means that you are not allowed to talk to others while eating, and point at people with chopsticks.
3, pin sound:
Is to put one end of chopsticks in your mouth and take it back with your mouth, making a hissing sound from time to time. This kind of behavior is considered despicable. Because it is impolite to eat chopsticks with your mouth, and it is even more annoying when accompanied by sound. Therefore, this practice will generally be considered as the lack of family education.
4. Knock on the cup:
This kind of behavior is considered as a beggar begging, and its practice is to knock on vegetables with chopsticks while eating. Because in the past, only beggars hit the begging bowl with chopsticks, and the sound was accompanied by crying in their mouths, which would attract the attention of pedestrians and give alms.
5. Hold a city tour:
This practice is to do it with chopsticks in hand, and patrol the dishes on the table with chopsticks. I don't know where to buy chopsticks. This kind of behavior is a typical lack of self-cultivation, and arrogance is extremely disgusting.
6. Dig a grave:
This refers to holding chopsticks in a dish in order to find prey, just like a grave robber. This practice is similar to "visiting the city" and belongs to the lack of education.
7. Tears and beads:
It means that when you pick up the dishes on your plate with chopsticks, your hands are not clean, and you will spill the soup on other plates or tables. This practice is considered to be a serious faux pas, and it is also undesirable.
8, burning incense in public:
When helping others to hold a meal out of kindness, it is convenient to put a pair of chopsticks in the meal and hand them to each other. It is regarded as disrespectful by people, because the tradition in Beijing is to do this when offering incense to the dead. If you put a pair of chopsticks into your rice, it is tantamount to incense to the dead.
9. Cross:
This is often overlooked, and chopsticks are casually crossed on the table when eating. Beijingers think that crossing at the dinner table is a total denial of others at the same table, just like the nature that students write wrong homework and the teacher hits the book with a fork, which is unacceptable to others. In addition, this practice is also disrespectful to myself, because in the past, I only used a fork to confess when I was in court, which is undoubtedly denying myself, and this is also not acceptable.
10, landing surprised God:
It means accidentally dropping chopsticks on the ground, which is also a serious rudeness. Because Beijingers believe that all ancestors are buried underground and should not be disturbed. Dropping chopsticks on the ground is tantamount to disturbing the ancestors underground, which is a great unfilial act. But there is a way to break it. As soon as the chopsticks land, you should quickly draw a cross on the ground with the chopsticks that have landed according to the direction in which you sit. Its direction is east and west first, then north and south. It means that I am not a thing, I should not disturb my ancestors, and then I will pick up chopsticks and say that I should die at the same time.
What are the taboos of chopsticks? 2 1. Don't knock chopsticks.
Even when waiting for a meal, you can't sit on the edge of the meal and knock with chopsticks in one hand, nor can you knock on a bowl lamp or a teacup with chopsticks.
2. Avoid throwing chopsticks.
When handing out chopsticks before meals, put them in pairs and then gently put them on everyone's table; When it's far away, you can ask someone to hand it over, not throw it on the table.
3, avoid fork chopsticks.
Chopsticks should not be placed horizontally and vertically, with a big head and a small head. Chopsticks should be placed next to the bowl, not on it.
4. Avoid inserting chopsticks.
When you need to leave temporarily during the meal, put chopsticks gently on the table or beside the plate, and don't put them in the rice bowl.
5, avoid waving chopsticks.
When cutting vegetables, don't put chopsticks in the dish, turn them over. When others come to pick up food, you should avoid it intentionally, and beware of "chopsticks fighting".
6, avoid dancing chopsticks.
When talking, don't use chopsticks as knives and dance around the table; Don't poke chopsticks in front of others when you invite them to dinner. It is impolite to do so.
What are the taboos of chopsticks? 1. The earliest origin of chopsticks.
1, a beautiful legend
As we all know, China is the birthplace of chopsticks. As one of the products of the oriental civilization in the world, this tool bears the burden of the east and even the whole human diet society and culture, and even affects many countries including Japan and South Korea.
Chopsticks look ordinary, but they can hold vegetables, pick vegetables, fish vegetables and stir-fry with five fingers, which is a must in the world. Some scholars once said that chopsticks are an important part of Chinese civilization and a concentrated expression of ancient oriental culture, which can also be called "the fifth great invention" of China. So how did chopsticks come into being?
According to the definition of Modern Chinese Dictionary, chopsticks are slender sticks that are put in your fingers to hold food, and are mostly used as tableware. The material is bamboo or metal. As for who invented it, there is no record in the history books, but there are many beautiful myths and legends.
For example, the God Bird rescued Jiang Ziya with a bamboo stick, which later evolved into chopsticks. To please Princess da ji, Shang Zhouwang took food with a hairpin and fed it herself. For example, when Dayu was controlling water, he didn't enter the house for three times, but just used branches to take meat from a cauldron to express his thoughts. Later, people invented chopsticks according to this principle.
Of course, these are folk stories and legends, which can't be used as evidence of chopsticks, but it is the product of the life practice of working people in ancient China and the crystallization of people's collective wisdom, which is beyond doubt.
2. Why are chopsticks called "chopsticks"
Looking through various ancient books and documents, we can know that the original name of chopsticks is not chopsticks, but chopsticks. The use of the term chopsticks can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, when Lu Rong, a scholar at that time, recorded in Miscellanies of the Garden that ancient people often had the habit of taboo.
Wuzhong people pay special attention to this matter, especially because "Zhu" and "Zhu" are the same pronunciation, which means "turn" locally, which is unlucky for Wu people who live and work on water all the year round, so they change "Zhu" to "Kuaier", which means to make the boat go fast and smoothly.
Later, because chopsticks were mostly made of bamboo, the prefix "bamboo" was added to the word "chopsticks", and the name "chopsticks" came from this.
Second, Chopsticks has a university question.
1, shape and material research
Chopsticks used by people in China are generally cylindrical, that is, the head is round and the tail is square, which means "the sky is round and the place is round". Compared with chopsticks in East Asian countries, chopsticks are slightly longer, generally about 27 cm, which has a lot to do with our traditional food culture.
As we all know, people in China eat around the table, and it is very comfortable for relatives and friends to get together and chat while eating. When the food is served, it will be placed in the middle of the round table, and everyone needs to pick it up with chopsticks.
But some dishes are far away, or in the middle of the table, and you need to get up because you can't reach them. Because of the etiquette culture on the ancient dining table, most people don't do this, so chopsticks have been improved and lengthened, so they can be held in a wider range.
In contrast, Japan, South Korea and other countries often adopt separate meals in their eating habits. Everyone has dishes with similar weight and quantity in front of them, and chopsticks don't need to be too long.
Our chopsticks in China are also very particular about materials. In ancient times, they were mostly made of bamboo and wood, and the ruling class also used precious materials such as ivory, gold and silver, amber and jade.
In modern times, with the popularization of scientific health awareness and the development of industrial technology, chopsticks have been made of metal, synthetic resin and other materials, and are widely used in daily life.
Japan needs to be mentioned here. This country has preserved many ancient etiquette laws and systems in China, which are well reflected in chopsticks. According to different uses, they also have a lot of chopsticks.
For example, there are public chopsticks, long chopsticks for cooking, chopsticks for children's practice, chopsticks for fish, chopsticks for New Year's greetings, chopsticks for tea ceremony, chopsticks for handicrafts, chopsticks for men and women, and many other categories, many of which are not seen in China.
2. Meaning
As for the meaning of chopsticks, it can be said that it is very rich. In addition to the meaning of "chopsticks" and "fast" mentioned above, it means happy, fast and smooth. Chopsticks themselves, because they are straight and hard, have also been given the meaning of integrity, integrity and integrity.
At the same time, when we eat, chopsticks must be used together, otherwise there is only one, even if the material is excellent, it is difficult to achieve anything.
According to this feature, the ancients also regarded chopsticks as a symbol of unity and friendship, and they were often used by teachers or parents to educate the next generation to have team spirit, and not to rely on their skills to be fearless and fight alone, making it difficult to become a success.
In addition, in different areas of China, according to the changes of customs, the meaning of chopsticks itself is not the same. For example, in some areas, when young men and women are newly married, their elders will give them a pair of chopsticks, which means "perfect looks" and "early birth".
Some people will also give chopsticks to each other when talking about objects, indicating "never part", giving them to friends, metaphorically "living in harmony", "equality and friendship" and giving them to the elderly, implying "chopsticks" and "happiness", hoping that the elderly will be happy forever and live forever.