As the saying goes, no rules are not square, many rules in ordinary life have long been integrated into our daily life, becoming the most basic common sense of life, such as going to the market to buy vegetables, we all know that a pound is twelve, five hundred grams, and people who are sensitive to weight even know the specific weight by hand. At the same time, there are also many rules or common sense that are unique to China, such as the zodiac, which is both the genus that grew up with us and the name of the twelve branches, which can be combined with tiangan to indicate the year, month and season.
For example, China, Japan, South Korea and other countries in East Asia mostly use chopsticks to eat, while the West is mainly based on knives, forks and spoons, and even the daily staple food is also very different from the East and the West, for example, the Orientals will be accustomed to eating rice, pasta, etc., while Westerners prefer bread or salads and other foods.
Chopsticks have always been a tool for Chinese to eat, but also symbolizes China's unique food culture, to know that in ancient times the length of chopsticks was strictly limited, all are seven inches and six minutes, not more than a little can not be less, and the ancient one pound and now are also different from sixteen two, then where did these standards come from and how to promote to the whole country. Ancient chopsticks are generally made of wood or bamboo, pure natural raw materials reduce the risk of disease from the mouth, the first discovery of chopsticks cultural relics in the mainland to more than 3,000 years ago the Shang Dynasty. Archaeologists have found many traces of chopsticks from that period in the cultural relics pits in Henan, not only that, but many historical materials that have been handed down to the present day have also recorded the content of chopsticks in detail, such as the King of Shangyi liked to use chopsticks made of ivory to eat.
The chopsticks in the daily life of the ancient people are basically the same, they are all round and square design, in order to express the worldview of the ancients, and the habit of using chopsticks is also as if the whole country is unified. Basically, the thumb and index finger are placed on the upper end of the chopsticks, that is, near the round end of the representative sky, the middle finger is placed in the middle position of the chopsticks, and the ring finger and the little finger are placed near the square end of the representative ground. Since the design style of chopsticks contains such a profound connotation as the world view, the same is true for seven inches and six minutes. The seven inches and six points of chopsticks represent the seven passions and six desires of people, and the people take food as the natural nature of food, after all, people can get satisfaction and happiness from food in ancient and modern times, which is the reason why many people who do not know moderation are becoming obese.
In the eyes of the ancients, chopsticks were not so much a tool for eating as a messenger who delivered food to the mouths of sentient beings. People's survival is inseparable from a full stomach of food, which is doomed to the importance of chopsticks, which is a convenient tool for people to eat, chopsticks are like people's love of food after the emotional sustenance. In ancient times, many great literary heroes were well-known gourmets in the country, such as Su Shi, who often studied food, and even created Dongpo meat, a famous dish in Hangzhou, and the ancients' emphasis on chopsticks was to love the food house and Wu from another point of view, along with the love of its related items, naturally the seven passions and six desires were poured into the design of chopsticks.
In the modern weight system, one pound is twelve, but the ancient algorithm is sixteen two for one pound, and the source of this algorithm is the unified weights and measures of Qin Shi Huang. During the period of the Seven Heroes, each country had different weights and measures, and the two algorithms were also inconsistent, and after Qin Shi Huang completed unification, there were often merchants who went south and north because of different weights and measures and local traders, so Qin Shi Huang sent The Minister Li Si to solve this basic people's livelihood problem, and finally Li Si set sixteen two pounds as the national standard. At the same time, there is another legend about the definition of jin, it is rumored that wood was invented by the Chinese carpenter Grandmaster Lu Ban, until now many elderly people in the market are still using wooden scales with scales. There are thirteen scales on the wooden scale, representing the six stars of the South Dipper and the seven stars of the Big Dipper, so at that time, one pound was thirteen two, and Li Si took over the task of unifying weights and measures and added fulu shou three stars to it out of good meaning, so the one pound of the Qin Dynasty became sixteen two.
In the eyes of the world, Qin Shi Huang was a tyrant who was extremely cruel and tyrannical, and the people of the late Qin Dynasty lived an incomparably dark and miserable life under his rule, but the merits of unifying weights and measures were extremely high, which made the Qin Dynasty market fundamentally get rid of the chaos of trading, so it was far more effective than giving small favors to the people. As a kind of tableware, chopsticks are also integrated into Chinese culture, the essence of China, which contains the wisdom of the ancients and deserves to be understood by all Chinese.
epilogue:
There are many habits in life, common sense is also a lot, in the eyes of many people Chinese the word is unfathomable and extremely profound, but we do not know that culture is contained in every corner of life, falling on every object that we are easy to ignore, as a Chinese descendant, we can not know that we have culture, but also know its provenance.