We have to eat every day, and we all have to use one thing to eat, that is, chopsticks. Except for foreigners and Teacher Yang Liping, foreigners use knives and forks, and our teacher Yang Liping does not eat human fireworks, lives like a fairy, and the nails are left in the old and old, so that when they dance, they have the appearance of peacocks in the forest, they can't take chopsticks, they can only grasp and eat with their hands. Although, we will use chopsticks when we eat from childhood to adulthood, we are accustomed to it, after all, Chinese have used chopsticks to eat for more than three thousand years, I don't know if anyone has ever thought about such a question: Who invented our chopsticks?
Ordinary people cannot answer this question, but if we ask who invented the "four great inventions" in our country, those who have read history can answer a few. The four great inventions of ancient China are indeed amazing, and the inventors are well-known and unquestionable. However, there is much discussion about who invented chopsticks. Some people say that it is Jiang Ziya, the founding hero of the country, some people say that it is the beautiful demon Ji Su Daji, and some people say that it is Dayu in the water of Dayu Zhi.
The former and the latter enjoyed a high reputation in history, and Jiang Ziya assisted the Zhou royal family in establishing the Zhou Dynasty, creating the legend of the gods and creating the country. Dayu was a generation of sages and had meritorious contributions to water management. Saying that chopsticks were invented by them sounds like there's nothing wrong with that. Saying that it is Su Daji, many people will find it strange. I will think in my heart: Isn't she a demon queen who has brought calamity to the country and the people? How come... Don't worry, please listen to me.
Su Daji is very famous in history. One of the three major red-faced disasters in history. Xia Jie died because of his sister Xi, the King of Shang died because of the demon Ji Su Da, and the King of Zhou You died for Bo Zhaoyi and laughed at the princes of the Beacon Drama. Su Daji can be said to be infamous in history: peeling off the belly of a pregnant woman to see the fetus inside, causing a corpse and two lives. Instigating the King of Shang to strip the loyal minister Bigan of his heart, resulting in the tragic death of a generation of loyal subjects Bigan. Invent the punishment of cannon branding, which mutilates living beings.
Her evil deeds are innumerable, and legend has it that she is the incarnation of the nine-tailed fox demon, beautiful and incomparable, specifically to charm the king, like a poppy, a seductive beauty but with poison. Su Da's evil deeds of seducing the Shang King and killing innocents are heinous. In order to curry favor with the demon queen, the king of Shang Collected the world's rare treasures, labored the people and hurt the wealth, and the people suffered unspeakable. One day Su Daji saw an old farmer walking barefoot on the ice, very curious, wanting to know what was going on. The King of Shang sent someone to arrest the old farmer and cut off his feet for Su Daji to study. The poor old farmer died in this way, and their evil deeds were indignant! However, how did chopsticks become the invention of Su Daji after the demon?
During the Shang Dynasty, people ate or grabbed them with their hands. How cruel the historical Shang King was, I will not repeat it. Every day, he had to serve him to dinner by the palace eunuchs, and if the food was too hot or too cold, he would shoot him, and the requirements were very harsh. One day, Su Daji was serving the King of Shang to dinner, and she tasted it herself and found that the rice was too hot. She thought: If it is sent to the mouth of the king like this, it will definitely be blamed by the king. Therefore, she had a clever move, and immediately pulled two jade noodles from her head, and then delivered the rice to the mouth of the ShangYi King. The King of Shang did not feel hot, so he ate the rice.
The King of Shang was very happy, and Su Daji was secretly happy in his heart, and ordered people to use jade to ask craftsmen to create two jade noodles specifically for the King of Shang. Later, the ministers of the DPRK and China followed suit, but the courtiers did not have so much jade, so they made it from silver. Then it spread to the folk, these ordinary people have jade and silver, so they began to use wood and bamboo to create this kind of plutonium to sandwich rice, found that the plutonium made of bamboo is easy to make, will not be moldy, cheap, the key is very practical. So, chopsticks spread like this.
Therefore, we don't have to use pilaf today, we can use chopsticks to sandwich rice, and we also have to thank the demon queen Su Daji. Although she is notorious in history, she at least inadvertently did something that benefited the people. Eating with chopsticks allows us to go to elegance, without having to grasp the rice with our hands to eat, so safe and hygienic, can reduce the bacteria we eat, and can avoid the occurrence of many diseases. Importantly, it is also the first step in civilized etiquette. Later, eating with chopsticks has also become a sign of Chinese, and it has become a habit of Chinese.