What does it mean to have a chopstick on the rice bowl when eating?

1. Chopsticks are placed flat on the bowl or inserted in the rice, only when a funeral is held. It is also called "the meal of the dead".

Secondly, putting chopsticks in a bowl means that you are not full and want to eat again, giving the host a feeling that you haven't eaten well here.

How to put chopsticks on the dining table is considered educated?

Children are often told not to beat bowls and basins with chopsticks when eating. Especially when you invite people to dinner at home, you can't just beat bowls and pots with chopsticks. Why on earth is this? It is often said that this rule is related to the taboo of begging.

Because only beggars beat bowls and pots with chopsticks when begging. One is related to "anti-virus" in ancient legends. According to legend, this method is a poisonous insect cultivated artificially. People put all kinds of insects into the altar. When they opened it many years later, a bug must have eaten all the other insects. This winner is called "Method". When people are killed by food poisoning, you should say a spell and beat the bowl and basin at the same time, so that the method can work. Therefore, it is taboo to beat bowls and basins with chopsticks.

Chopsticks are the most important tableware in Chinese food. The posture of holding chopsticks should be standardized. When you need to use other tableware for dinner, you should put down your chopsticks first.

Chopsticks must be placed on the chopstick rack, not on the cup or plate, it is easy to be knocked off. If you accidentally drop your chopsticks, please ask the waiter to change a pair. In the process of eating, you raise your chopsticks, but you don't know which dish to eat. Don't move chopsticks back and forth in each dish at this time, and don't swim in the air. Don't fork food into your mouth with chopsticks, lick the attachments on chopsticks with your tongue, and don't push bowls, plates and cups with chopsticks. You can't put chopsticks in the bowl if you have to leave temporarily. You should put them gently on the chopstick rack.

Talk while eating, don't use chopsticks as props, and dance at will; Or beat the food on the table with chopsticks and point at others with chopsticks. Every time you use chopsticks, put them down gently and try not to make any noise.

Etiquette of using chopsticks

China is very particular about chopsticks. Chopsticks, also called chopsticks (ribs), were made of ivory as early as the Shang Dynasty. There is a record of "beginning as a hairpin" in Historical Records of Song Weizi Family. Making chopsticks with ivory is a symbol of wealth. Chopsticks are made of different materials, such as gold chopsticks, silver chopsticks and ivory chopsticks, usually bone chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks, and now plastic chopsticks. Chopsticks in Hunan are the longest, some about two feet long; Japanese chopsticks are short and sharp, which is because they eat sliced food such as fish fillets. Chopsticks were introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is the country that produces and uses the most chopsticks in the world, with an average annual output of 654.38+03 billion pairs of chopsticks, 90% of which are cut only once. The Japanese also designate the fourth day of August as the "Chopsticks Festival" every year, and pay attention to "avoiding eight chopsticks" when using chopsticks.

China's use of chopsticks is a scientific invention worthy of pride and admiration in the history of human civilization. Li Zhengdao said in demonstrating that the Chinese nation is an excellent one: "China people invented chopsticks as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. These two simple things apply the lever principle in physics wonderfully. Chopsticks are an extension of human fingers. They can do whatever their fingers can, and they are not afraid of high heat and cold. This is really great.

Comparatively speaking, westerners didn't invent knives and forks until16th century and17th century, but how can knives and forks be compared with chopsticks? "Japanese scholars have determined that when people use chopsticks to hold food, there are more than 80 joints and 50 muscles moving, which are related to the cranial nerves. Therefore, eating with chopsticks is handy and can train the brain to be flexible. Foreigners are amazed at the functions of these two magical sticks to clamp, pick, scoop and beep, and they are also very happy to eat with them.

In the long-term practice, people have also formed some etiquette taboos in using chopsticks:

Avoid beating chopsticks. Even when waiting for a meal, you can't sit on the edge of the meal and knock with chopsticks in one hand, nor can you knock on a bowl lamp or a teacup with chopsticks.

Second, avoid throwing chopsticks. When handing out chopsticks before meals, put them in pairs and then gently put them on everyone's table; When it's far away, you can ask someone to hand it over, not throw it on the table.

Don't fork chopsticks. Chopsticks should not be placed horizontally and vertically, with a big head and a small head. Chopsticks should be placed next to the bowl, not on it.

Four bogey chopsticks. When you need to leave temporarily during the meal, put chopsticks gently on the table or beside the plate, and don't put them in the rice bowl.

Five taboos are waving chopsticks. When picking vegetables, don't wave chopsticks around in the dish plate, turn them over. When others come to pick up food, you should avoid it intentionally, and beware of "chopsticks fighting".

Six taboos dance chopsticks. When talking, don't use chopsticks as knives and dance around the table; Don't poke chopsticks in front of others when you invite them to dinner. It is impolite to do so.