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Q: Did people always eat with chopsticks in China?

...or did they ever use other utensils before?

15 years 1 day ago in  Culture - China

 
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I assume they made the transition from using hands to chop sticks, Europeans probably hands to a spoon type object. So from the beginning of the first person been born in this geographical land, i think its safe to say they didn't pop out clutching kuai zi.

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yeah, by sharing the maisn dishes using chopsticks I got a mouth disease on the corners os my lips
Can you imagine if someone has herpes?
this disgusting habit will ended up killing us

icerock:

don't tell us you share your chopstick with others? that is really disgust.

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Straw_ManNz:

No , he said that he caught an infection, because someone else at the same table had one then passed it on through the communal sharing of the plates.

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crimochina:

so that why so many people have herpes here, i thought it was from the massage girls

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not "always",  it is forever.

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Straw_ManNz:

Also , sorry , but you realise you applied 0% logic when you said"forever"

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Although the Chinese invented chopsticks, they were not the first eating utensil used. They were praised by Confucious as the best way to eat food, so they became popular.

http://www.echinacities.com/expat-corner/vessel-use-of-skull-as-lesser-known-chinese-inventions_2.html

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