Have you ever asked yourself why Chinese people use chopsticks for their food? Indeed, they have been doing this for about 2,500 years now. Traditionally, Chinese use chopsticks because of the way their food is prepared. It is being cut into small pieces so that it can be cooked quickly. Why? To save fuel, thus cutting it's cost.
Chinese people use chopsticks like tongs, picking up pieces of food and quickly tossing them into the mouth. They call it "kwaitze" which means "quick ones." They refer to "chop" as "quick", and this is where they derived the popular term "chopsticks." Through chopsticks, they can relay a message to their host. Placing them across the top of the bowl conveys a message that they wish to leave the table.
It may seem difficult to use chopsticks, but why not give it a try? Learning to use it can be fun, and it might teach us to live and work swiftly and productively, like Chinese people do!
Chopsticks can also make excellent tent pegs. If you lay them on top of the tent it means you wnat to live in a house.
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ReplyDeleteChopsticks are portraid wrongly in cartoons as an X but in real life they are shaped like two parallel lines, so dont get mixed up.
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