In China, eating with chopsticks has been handed down from ancient times. Also called "chopsticks" in ancient times, the use of chopsticks in daily life is very particular. Generally, when we use chopsticks, the correct way to use chopsticks is to hold chopsticks with the right hand, hold the upper end of chopsticks with the thumb and forefinger, and hold chopsticks with the other three fingers naturally bent, and the two ends of chopsticks must be aligned. In the use process, chopsticks must be placed neatly on the right side of the rice bowl before eating, and must be placed neatly in the middle of the rice bowl after eating. But it is absolutely forbidden to use the following twelve kinds of chopsticks:
1, three long and two short: this refers to putting chopsticks on tables with uneven lengths before or during meals. This is unlucky. Usually we call it "three long and two short", which means "death". Because people in China used to think that people should be put into the coffin after death, and after people put it in, before the coffin was covered, the coffin was composed of two short boards, with three long boards at the bottom of both sides, and the coffin made of five boards together happened to be three long and two short, so the coffin happened to be three long and two short.
2. The immortal guides the way: This practice is also extremely unacceptable. This method of holding chopsticks is to hold chopsticks with thumb, middle finger, ring finger and little finger, and the index finger is extended. This is called "cursing the street" in the eyes of Beijingers. Because when eating, the index finger always points at others. When Beijingers generally point fingers at each other, most of them have the meaning of accusation. Therefore, pointing at people while eating with chopsticks is tantamount to accusing others, just like swearing, which is not allowed. Another situation is this meaning, that is, talking to others and pointing at people with chopsticks while eating.
3. Pinpin Liu Sheng: This practice is also unacceptable. Its practice is to put one end of chopsticks in your mouth, carry it back with your mouth, and make a hissing sound from time to time. This kind of behavior is considered despicable. Because it is impolite to eat chopsticks with your mouth, and it is even more annoying when accompanied by sound. Therefore, this practice is generally considered to be the lack of family education and is not allowed.
4. Knocking on cups: This behavior is regarded as begging for food, and its practice is to knock on plates and bowls with chopsticks while eating. Because in the past, only beggars hit the begging bowl with chopsticks, and the sound was accompanied by crying in their mouths, which would attract the attention of pedestrians and give alms. This practice is considered extremely despicable and despised by others.
5, holding a tour of the city: this practice is to hold chopsticks in your hand, do nothing, use chopsticks to patrol the dishes on the table, and know where to get chopsticks. This kind of behavior is a typical lack of self-cultivation, and arrogance is extremely disgusting.
6. Digging a grave with puzzles: This refers to pulling chopsticks in a dish in order to find prey, just like digging a grave. This practice is similar to "visiting the city", which is both uneducated and boring.
7. Tears: Actually, this is the time when you pick up the dishes on the plate with chopsticks, and your hands are clumsy, and the soup is spilled into other dishes or on the table. This practice is considered to be a serious faux pas, and it is also undesirable.
8, hanging upside down: This means that chopsticks are used upside down when eating. This practice is very despised. As the saying goes, people are so hungry that they don't care about their faces. It is absolutely impossible to knock down chopsticks.
9. Dinghai Shenzhen: It is not possible to insert a chopstick into the dish on the plate when eating. This is considered a disgrace to the dining staff at the same table. Making such a move while eating is tantamount to putting up the middle finger in public in Europe, which means the same thing, and this is unacceptable.
10, burning incense in public: It is often out of kindness to help others fill their meals. In order to facilitate and save trouble, put a pair of chopsticks in their own meals and hand them to each other. It is regarded as disrespectful by people, because the tradition in Beijing is to do this when offering incense to the dead. If you insert a pair of chopsticks into your rice, it will be regarded as the same as offering incense to the dead. Therefore, it is absolutely unacceptable to put chopsticks in a bowl.
1 1, cross: This is often overlooked. Chopsticks cross casually on the table when eating. This is not right, because Beijingers think that crossing at the dinner table is a total denial of others at the same table, just like the nature of students' wrong homework being crossed by teachers in this book is unacceptable to others. In addition, this practice is also disrespectful to myself, because in the past, I only used a fork to confess when I was in court, which is undoubtedly denying myself, and this is also not acceptable.
12: The so-called "landing shock" means accidentally dropping chopsticks on the ground, which is a serious rude performance. Because Beijingers think that all ancestors are buried underground and should not be disturbed, it is a great unfilial act to disturb the ancestors underground when chopsticks fall on the ground, so this kind of behavior is not allowed. But there is a way to break it. As soon as the chopsticks land, you should quickly draw a cross on the ground with the chopsticks that have landed according to the direction in which you sit. Its direction is east and west first, then north and south. It means that I am not a thing, I should not disturb my ancestors, and then I will pick up chopsticks and say that I should die at the same time.
We should pay attention to the taboo of twelve kinds of chopsticks mentioned above in our daily life. As a country of etiquette and an ancient city, people can see its profound cultural accumulation through the use of a pair of small chopsticks.
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