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Similar to people of other nationalities, ancient Chinese people grasped or tore food with their bare hands at the beginning. Chopsticks, forks, knives and spoons were used much later, of which chopsticks, with a history of thousands of years, are a wonder of Chinese dining utensils.
Chopsticks are the dining utensils most frequently used in Chinese peoples daily life. in ancient China, they were called zhu. When the Chinese began to use chopsticks as an eating instrument is anybody guess. they were first mentioned in writing in Liji(The Book of Rites), a work compiled some 2000 years ago.
Chopsticks may be made of any of several materials: bamboo, wood, gold, silver, ivory, pewter, and plastics. in cross-section, they may be either round of square. some of them are engraved with coloured pictures or calligraphy for decoration. Ordinary chopsticks used in Chinese homes are of wood or bamboo, those for banquets are often ivory, whereas gold ones belongs only to the royalty and aristocracy.
Nowadays a kind of chopstick was called one-time chopstick, made of wood. although it is very cheap, for making one-time chopsticks, a large area of forest have been destoryed. Environmental damage is more and more Serious, in order to protect our environmental, please less use the one-time chopsticks, thank you very much, wish you can learn Chinese language well!
 
a fine suite of classic chopsticks ordianary chopsticks
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