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[eda]

Hi..
As I know most of you guys are from there,I wanna learn something about chopsticks
I have little information about chopsticks so I wanna learn more about them.It's one of the great cultural values of China I think.
I am so curiess about that chopsticks and here are some of my questions about them

Do you always use them while eating?

Is it easy to learn how to utilize them when you came there as a foreigner?

I once heard that Chine people consider knife or forks as a kind of violence so they use chopstics that reflects gentleness...Is it true?


Thanks my dear friends
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[RedRose]

I don't know chopstick's origin. but I know all almost Chinese people use it when we eat.

for a child, it's easy to learn how to use it. but for an adult who never used chopstick before, it's hard to use it I guess

Do you know why Chinese people play ping-pong so skillfully? according to some experts' explanation, it's because Chinese people always use chopstick in their entire life

[eda]

[Bob S.]

[RedRose]

Haha! I know that it's hard for a foreigner to learn how to use chopstick, but I had never known that it's soooo hard until I read Bob's msg!!

and this flash about chopstick is so interesting!

[eda]

I will take two sticks and try to handle it as it showed in flash. If I might learn how to use them properly,I will immediatly go to a Chinese Restraunt
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[Bob S.]

[RedRose]

[advoca]

But, RedRose-- the web page says:

Some of the most important chopstick rules (in Japan) are:
� Hold your chopsticks towards their end, and not in the middle or the front third.
� When you are not using your chopsticks and when you are finished eating, lay them down in front of you with the tip to left.
� Do not stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into the rice that is put onto the altar.
� Do not pass food with your chopsticks directly to somebody else's chopsticks. Only at funerals are the bones of the cremated body given in that way from person to person.
� Do not spear food with your chopsticks.
� Do not point with your chopsticks to something or somebody.
� Do not move your chopsticks around in the air too much, nor play with them.
� Do not move around plates or bowls with chopsticks.
� To separate a piece of food into two pieces, exert controlled pressure on the chopsticks while moving them apart from each other. This needs much exercise.
� If you have already used your chopsticks, use the opposite end of your chopsticks in order to move food from a shared plate to your own plate.

But surely these rules apply in China too? The only one I have not heard of the is the last one, namely, If you have already used your chopsticks, use the opposite end of your chopsticks in order to move food from a shared plate to your own plate.

[RedRose]

[aj]

some interesting info: i've been told that chopsticks that have a pointed end are of japanese origin and the round blunt ends-chinese. velly interesting dees chopsticks