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Chopsticks are a pair of sticks to be used when eating. ____1____ Chopsticks are considered one of the symbols of Chinese food culture. Here are three things you should know about them.
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Chinese people started to use chopsticks about 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty. During the pre-Qin period, chopsticks were called “Jia”, and in the Qin and Han dynasties, they were called “Zhu”. Because “Zhu” shares the same pronunciation with “stop” in Chinese, which is an unlucky word, by the Ming Dynasty, people began to call them “Kuai”, meaning “fast” in Chinese. ____3____
Who invented chopsticks?
____4____ One is that Jiang Ziya created chopsticks after getting an idea from a mythical (神秘的) bird. It is also said that Yu the Great, who founded the Xia Dynasty, used sticks to pick hot food in order to save time to control floods, so chopsticks came into being.
How should we behave when using chopsticks?
When eating with the elders, Chinese people usually let the elders take up chopsticks before anyone else. ____5____ It’s also bad to tap (敲) chopsticks on the edge of your bowl, because in ancient China beggars (乞丐) often did it to attract attention.
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A. How were chopsticks invented?
B. When were chopsticks invented?
C. This is the origin of today’s name of Chinese chopsticks.
D. Besides, playing with chopsticks is thought to be impolite.
E. They were first used in China and then introduced to other countries.
F. There is no exact historical record, but there are many folk stories about it.