Why in the Asian countries eat sticks of wood?
History of Chinese wooden sticks
About 4000-5000 years ago, the Chinese invented a strange way of eating through the wooden sticks, sticks cooking, and was made from tree branches. And it began to use the formal tools on the table, circa 400-500 AD.
It was one of the most important factors that have helped to spread the ancient Chinese tradition, is the rapid population growth in all parts of the country, making the resources, especially cooking and eating purposes become incredibly rare. As a result, people began to cut their food into small pieces to be cooked faster and easier.
Because of the size of small pieces of food, the use of knives has become difficult, except for the numbers of special knives and metal spoons table No. in China in that period were few. People began inventing new ways to cope with population growth in the country, through the manufacture of wooden sticks food from easy and available resources, hence the birth of wooden sticks.
Decline in the use ordinary tableware Chalskakin not only because few in number, but also because the Chinese followers of the teachings of Confucius, "Chinese leader" who was a vegetarian, and I think that the knives were not suitable to eat! Confucius was not allowed to use the knives on his table. Has also been dispensed with a fork because the wooden sticks tapered tip allows cutting food fork same way, there is no need for them.
Meanwhile, nearly a century later, no longer use wooden sticks confined only to China, but this tradition go to neighboring Asian countries such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The difference between a wooden Chinese and Japanese harps, which is that the Japanese were made from a single piece of bamboo connected to al-Qaeda, and the Japanese sticks only used in religious ceremonies, then sticks of wood has become a major part of the culture of both countries and continues to this day.
Wooden sticks makers also fancy her debut in the way industry and material which they are made, they have all been cheap, as the kind made from bamboo. Later, use the chopsticks are made of silver and is limited to use on the Chinese ruling families in the belief that they protect them from food poisoning. It has spread belief that the silver pots turn into black color on contact with toxins. Unfortunately, this belief is not correct, Valsianid and arsenic do not Mashup 'Transforms silver color to black when they interact together, as that silver may turn to black color when in contact with unusual materials such as onions, garlic and rotten eggs due to the release of hydrogen sulfide, which reacts with silver and change their color.
How to use wooden sticks with rice?
