Chopsticks

The most popular cutlery in the west like Britain is a knife and a fork, which is usually made from metal. However in the East the Chinese eat with two long thin pieces of sticks known as chopsticks.

Chopsticks are the most popular form of cutlery used in china. The Chinese people having been eating with chopsticks for over 3000 years!

Chopstick are mainly made from natural material that is light and cheap like wood and bamboo and thousand of years ago people used metal, stone and even bones as chopsticks!

In the Chinese history book tells us how the king of the last Dynasty called Zhou ate very expensively, with ivory chopsticks.

There is a very famous museum in Shanghai called the Kuaizi Museum, where there are over a 1000 pairs of chopsticks, that are hundreds of years old.

To have good manners in the west means not to put elbows on the table or slurp when eating. Just like in having good manners on the table when eating is very important. In China eating with good manners mean never leaving a chopstick in its bowl upright as the image of this reminds the Chinese people of a tomb stone and death. Eating in a nice way means not to hit your chopsticks on the bowl like beggars do.