How to use chopsticks correctly? What are the etiquettes for using chopsticks?

The key dining tool in Chinese cuisine is chopsticks, also known as chopsticks. For a long time, people have also developed some etiquette knowledge when using chopsticks.

1) Knowledge of the etiquette of placing chopsticks during the banquet. Chopsticks are in pairs, and chopsticks of the same length, color, and homogeneity should be used on the same table, and they should be placed neatly when placed, and they should not be placed horizontally or vertically or crossed. When placing the chopsticks, they should be placed with their heads inward, resting on the chopstick rest or on their own plates, most of which are flush with the edge of the table.

2) Knowledge of etiquette of picking up vegetables with chopsticks. When using chopsticks to pick up vegetables, you don't have to "raise chopsticks uncertainly". You don't have to pick vegetables from the plate, you don't have to use chopsticks to tear fish in your mouth, and you can't use chopsticks as forks to poke at dishes.

When picking up food, you need to be careful to avoid other customers' chopsticks. When talking at the dinner table, learn to put down your chopsticks and never gesture with them. Raising chopsticks to and forth in front of the eyes of others, causing the chopsticks to dance wildly on the dining table, is also a major manifestation of rudeness and lack of education.

3) How to hold chopsticks. If you hold chopsticks with your left hand and your right hand, you will get into a fight when you eat or pick up food. Hold the chopsticks moderately, not too high or too low.

4) Knowledge of the etiquette of using chopsticks during the banquet. Take chopsticks with care, do not throw them at will, and do not hit the table and bowl with chopsticks before the dish is served. Because the Chinese think that hitting the bowl and plate with chopsticks is a way for beggars to ask for food.

When chopsticks are not used during the meal, they should be placed on top of your own flavor plate or to the right of your own water cup, and should not be placed on a public dish plate or in front of the guests at the adjacent table.

5) There are some avoidances about using chopsticks, such as: it is not necessary to stick chopsticks vertically in the bowl or on the dish, because this is a rule that is often used during memorials; Stop using chopsticks during the banquet and avoid resting horizontally on the flavor plate, which will make the host misunderstand that the meal is difficult to swallow, and you refuse to finish it; Do not use chopsticks to dig vegetables; It is not advisable to stick the chopsticks of rice to pick another dish; Do not shave your teeth with chopsticks.

Chopsticks must be held between the index finger and middle finger, and the little finger should be used under the middle finger.

Generally, after holding the chopsticks with the middle finger and index finger, you can use your little finger to put it on the back of the chopsticks. In general, chopsticks should not make a sound.

Chopsticks need to be held together with three fingers, and the chopsticks cannot be placed directly on the table after eating, and they should not be inserted on top of the rice.

1. Do not hit the cup and bowl with chopsticks.

While waiting to be served, don't sit at the table and tap with a chopstick in one hand, or hit the edge of a dish or teacup with a chopstick. On the one hand, it is rude to the host, thinking that it is urging vegetables; On the other hand, the older generation would think it was a beggar's move.

2. Don't wave with chopsticks.

When some people have a dinner, it is easy to get up to pick up vegetables and flip and pick their favorite things on the plate regardless of their surroundings. In fact, this is extremely impolite. When picking up vegetables, you can't wave your chopsticks around in the dish, flip them up and down, and choose the dishes that are close to your side; When you encounter others who also come to pick up vegetables, you should deliberately avoid it and beware of "chopsticks fighting".

3. Do not stick chopsticks on the rice.

If you insert a pair of chopsticks into the rice, it is considered to be the same as giving incense to the dead, so it is never acceptable to put the chopsticks in the bowl.

Chopsticks were also known as "pods" and "chopsticks" in ancient times. Among all kinds of tableware in the world, chopsticks can be described as unique. It is said that in ancient times, people used their hands to grasp food.

But sometimes I eat something hot, because my hands are hot, so I use a wooden stick to assist. Over time, people developed the skill of pinching food with wooden sticks. It was on this basis that the ancestors of the Chinese nation invented chopsticks.

Although the chopsticks are simple, they skillfully use the principle of leverage, which can affect more than 30 joints and dozens of muscles when used, which is not only light and flexible, but also can achieve the effect of strengthening the body.

In the long-term practice of life, people have also formed some etiquette taboos about the use of chopsticks

One should avoid knocking on chopsticks. That is, while waiting for a meal, you should not sit at the table, hold a chopstick in one hand and tap it at will, or use chopsticks to hit a bowl or teacup.

Two taboos to throw chopsticks. When handing out chopsticks before a meal, straighten out the chopsticks one by one and gently place them in front of everyone's table; When you are far away, you can ask someone to hand it over, not throw it on the table.

Three taboo forks and chopsticks. Chopsticks cannot be placed horizontally and horizontally, and one cannot be a big head and one is a small head. Chopsticks should be placed next to the bowl, not resting on the bowl.

Four taboo insertion. If you need to leave temporarily in the middle of a meal, you should gently rest your chopsticks on the table or on the side of the plate, and do not insert them in the rice bowl.

Five taboos to wave chopsticks. When picking up vegetables, do not wave chopsticks around in the tea tray and turn them up and down; When you encounter others who also come to pick up vegetables, you should pay attention to avoid it and beware of "chopsticks fighting".

Six taboo dance chopsticks. When talking, don't use chopsticks as props and dance around the dining table; Don't poke your chopsticks in front of others when you invite them to eat. It would be rude to do so.