筷子的来历:Sometime in the past, people began cooking their food in large pots. The food was chopped up into bits so that it would cook faster. Rather than reaching their fingers into the pots (and thus burning them), folks began to fish for their food with sticks or twigs. It became easier to get the food using a pair of sticks, hence the chopstick was born! Another influence in chopstick history was Confucius (551 to 479 B.C.). He was a vegetarian that held that knives did not belong at the dinner table, as they were for use at a slaughterhouse. Confucius taught that if a moral person heard the screaming of animals at the slaughterhouse, that person would prefer to keep the animal alive and unharmed. Confucius promoted peace and non violence, including the humane treatment of animals. So he was not big on knives but did like chopsticks :-) In the middle ages (around the 5th century) chopstick use migrated from China to Vietnam, Korea and Japan. The Japanese started out using chopsticks in religious occasions and ceremonies, then progressed to using them for common eating.