starjing99
筷子是一种食具，用于夹起食物并把它们送往口里。 英文名:chopstick(单根筷子) ，chopsticks(一双筷子)。 起源於中国，古代叫 箸（箸者，助也，意思是帮助吃饭的工具），也叫筯，还叫棶，因为 箸 和 住 是谐音字，有停住、不吉利的意思，后来就用停住的反义字”快“加个竹字头，就成了现在筷子名称的由来。（清朝赵翼曾引用明朝陆容的《菽园杂记》说：「起於吴中。凡舟行讳住讳翻，故呼箸为快子」） 筷子从古代就流传至邻近国家，当今已成为东南亚多个民族常用的饮食工具。筷子多为竹制，亦有金属、象牙与塑料等。
拽拽小蘑菇
Some people did some research on the origin of China’s chopsticks compared to the knife and fork in the West. One theory is that China was an agricultural society and relied on vegetables for food. Chopsticks were very convenient tools for eating. The Westerners, on the other hand, were nomads and lived on meat. The knife and fork were more practical. Others believe that China did not have much industry, and therefore people used chopsticks. The West was an industrial society, so their eating utensils were made of metal.
Lisa要去旅行
筷子的来历：Sometime in the past, people began cooking their food in large pots. The food was chopped up into bits so that it would cook faster. Rather than reaching their fingers into the pots (and thus burning them), folks began to fish for their food with sticks or twigs. It became easier to get the food using a pair of sticks, hence the chopstick was born! Another influence in chopstick history was Confucius (551 to 479 B.C.). He was a vegetarian that held that knives did not belong at the dinner table, as they were for use at a slaughterhouse. Confucius taught that if a moral person heard the screaming of animals at the slaughterhouse, that person would prefer to keep the animal alive and unharmed. Confucius promoted peace and non violence, including the humane treatment of animals. So he was not big on knives but did like chopsticks :-) In the middle ages (around the 5th century) chopstick use migrated from China to Vietnam, Korea and Japan. The Japanese started out using chopsticks in religious occasions and ceremonies, then progressed to using them for common eating.
