Asian cuisine is impossible to imagine with forks and spoons.It's like visiting the theater in the tank or go hiking in the mountains on his heels. Why, in China and Japan as a strong tradition to use chopsticks?
who invented
The content of the article
- who invented
- philosophical sense
- The practical side of the issue
According to the estimates of historians in China have started using them about 5,000 years ago. It is assumed that in the beginning they did not eat, and used for cooking. The prototype of steel thin twigs that are easy to pick up and turn on the fire the pieces of meat and fish.
There is a beautiful legend about the mythical Chinese ruler by the name of Yu the Great. It says that he was living in the third millennium BC, and once during the afternoon took the pot from boiling a piece of meat with two branches. Archaeologists also found ancient tools dating back to 7000 BC!
Due to the rapid growth of the Asian population are firmly sticks to the culture of eating about 500 years BC. e. To feed the whole family, the food had to be divided into smaller portions, because that is enough for everyone, even a small piece of meat. Manufacturing does not require special skills, commoners used bamboo that grew everywhere.
Aristocrats used silverware, believing that the noble metal blackened by contact with poison and save lives by warning of the dangers of the host.
philosophical sense
If you look at the issue from a philosophical point of view, it opens up interesting facts and observations. Some people believe that the use of wooden sticks promoted the great Chinese thinker Confucius. He was known as a vegetarian, preaching the philosophy of honesty, generosity, and peace without violence. Metal on the thought associated with weapons and slaughter, so he did not place at the dinner table!
A person engaged in the manufacture of cutlery, a priori incapable of evil.
It turns out, spoon and fork is a symbol of war and sticks correspond to the concepts of "Zen" - the doctrine that calls for balance and peace.Even in the very movements noticeable interesting detail: a passive element - it is yin, and the active - yang! The form tells us the following: The rounded end is the sky, and the square - the land, the fingers represent the same person, eating earth and sky. Even in such a simple thing we can see the depth of observation of nature.
Length is strictly regulated and makes up Chinese 7 tsuney fen and 6 - 7 feelings and desires 6, depicted in Buddhist.
The practical side of the issue
Certain ritual and a tribute to the traditions of their ancestors helps Asian nations to maintain the continuity of generations. We've already figured out that in ancient instrument laid the philosophical subtext, but what is the practical use?
- Spoon has a convenient and fast, and this is not conducive to proper digestion. Sticks allow to stretch the meal process, savoring every bite. Slowly the body is saturated, managing time to signal satiety. Japanese and Chinese will never overeat and easy to digest food.
- In this manner it reduces the amount of food eaten. Spoon we send in your mouth one after another, without stopping, stomach requires a continuation, and this leads to excess weight and gravity.
- Lunch and dinner are not served in a hurry. Philosophical approach to life and lets you enjoy the food process and results in a good mood.
- Excellent training fingers since childhood! Fine motor skills in the hands of Asian peoples is developed to perfection.
- Work all the muscles in his hands and points are stimulated nerve endings, responsible for the functioning of the digestive system.
The Japanese believe that children start to eat with a spoon, lag behind in development compared with those peers who are learning to deal with traditional instruments.
During the meal, you can never move their dishes, just keep it in your mouth, or waving in the air. Etiquette does not allow to spear pieces of food or indulge at the table. For Orientals important symbols and rituals! I really like the tradition of giving newlyweds sticks, it means their spiritual closeness and inseparable. As well noticed, is not it?
An introduction to the peculiarities of other cultures, we develop a spirituality and expanding horizons.
Small problem. In either Chinese or Japanese restaurant, at your request, and will bring a spoon and fork. Knives are usually not required: the meat is served only in the form of melkoporezannom.
Somehow forgot to mention that poking a spoon in the mouth is not very much and nice! With a spoon everything eaten for centuries is not very educated and poor people - all the dishes in a row, then licked and storage placed in its own boots!! )) And spoons were mostly wood - and not very well placed by virtue of the size of the mouth)) sticks on the convenience food is much closer to the fork - cutlery secured educated and cultured people who do not use the first second and salad of the same unwashed dishes and the same spoon that by changing the way meals It does not wash! )))
In northern Chinese Han-lot soups, breakfast is traditional gruel - like food and they eat from time immemorial ceramic (now plastic) round spoons. often overeat in the north lot of full pot-bellied men. Japanese are not interested in, but not about the Chinese previrayte.
Spoon the Chinese and the Japanese have always been, that they eat their soup, strangely enough.
Square Face - symbol of the earth. Really? the corner meet)))
