It is unknown when and when the first pair of Chinese chopsticks were invented, and who invented them. Due to limited knowledge and evidence, the author can only fabricate the history of chopsticks in a fantasy way. Although it has taken more than ten years of research and exploration, several articles about chopsticks have been written and published during this period. Among them are the signed article "Philosophical Reflections on Neo-Expressionism in Art" published in the scholar forum column of "China Reform News" on July 16, 1998; and the "Harrow Lecture on Neo-Expressionism" delivered at Beijing University in October 1996 ; and the front-page article "First Published - Chopsticks and their Philosophy" published in "Science Times" sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the National Natural Science Foundation on December 23, 2000 attracted attention. In accordance with the principle of taking responsibility for writing, I bravely took on the responsibilities related to Luo's chopstick theory, and took the trouble to take the chopsticks that my compatriots chewed, stretched and retracted as research objects and topics. I know clearly that there is no historical data or evidence, but I rely on my imagination to assert various myths about chopsticks. Even though this inference is extremely reasonable, its academic value is inevitably questionable. Therefore, I would rather hope that the people who write the counter-evidence will analyze or jointly discuss it, otherwise I will have to allow the author to talk endlessly in the "Luo Shi Monogatari" chapter. What exactly is the "chopstick complex"?
Not to mention the long history of "setting chopsticks to miss relatives". Before the New Year's Eve dinner, parents always fill their chopsticks with delicacies and invite the grandparents to enjoy them. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people miss their loved ones even more, and they often place their chopsticks next to the empty wine cups of those who are absent. The first lesson for young children when they sit down to the table is how to hold chopsticks and the family training of using chopsticks to pick up food. The first time in my life that I still remember vividly was when I was hit on the head by my father because I was picking up vegetables in a forward position. I heard two chopsticks tapping on my huge forehead. When I first learned calligraphy and composition, in order to save paper and pen, I imitated my father and used chopsticks dipped in water to smear Chinese characters on a stone. A childhood fable is another one taught by my mother: "One chopstick is easy to break, but one chopstick cannot be bent." My mother was not only well-educated but also good at weaving and glass painting. The bamboo needles she used to knit the brown bed and rattan chairs were made from several bamboo chopsticks. Her sons’ sweaters were knitted from sweaters cut from bamboo chopsticks. Later, I also cut the chopsticks into thin pieces and strung them together in the same way. A pile of wooden beads made Meng Tong's first earthen abacus after studying. I think when our ancestors invented the first abacus, they probably used chopsticks to string beads on it. After that, I used chopsticks to wrap cloth strips to make the piston rods of the bamboo water guns used by children in water fights. I also cut them into small strings for the erhu trumpet, or cut them into thin keels for small kites. . However, he stole a small pair of chopsticks without consulting his mother, and cut his tender hand with a kitchen knife while cutting the bones. The mother picked up her chopsticks to hit her son's little palms. Then she saw the wounds and blood stains on her fingers, and she was so sad that she shed tears again. Yes, chopsticks are more important than my son. Without saying a word, she bought a piece of bamboo and used her hands, which she had used to pare candle wicks when she was young, to cut open the bamboo and pare a large number of bamboo chopsticks and kite keels. "Doing it yourself is better than anything else. Chopsticks are too short and bamboo is long enough. This means that things have shortcomings and longings..." After listening to my mother's instructions, we learned something, because I saw chopsticks and even saw the bamboo forest. .
Let us return to the basic definition of chopstick philosophy and interpret related philosophical concepts from these two complementary straight lines. First of all, please allow the author to go back to the starting point of the problem and use more standardized words to describe the most basic relationship between Chinese chopsticks and Chinese people. In short, chopsticks, invented in ancient China, are Chinese tableware made of wood, bamboo, bone, teeth, metal, plastic and other materials. The user holds the chopsticks with four or three fingers of the right or left hand, and relies on the coordinated movement of the knuckles, wrists, elbows and arms to bring the staple food and dishes into the mouth according to the person's wishes and meal rules. . Ever since, a set of relevant figures about Chinese chopsticks have been calculated by the author. This set of astronomical figures includes China’s total population, total food consumption, and total chopstick production in 5,000 years.
A. China’s conceptual population projection in 5000 years: Set the population base before 5000 to 20,000 people; one generation will be reproduced every 30 years. So far, China has reproduced for 166 generations; the base population doubles every 300 years, and the population has increased 17 times so far. Calculating based on this rule, it can be seen that the base population 5,000 years ago was 20,000 people, and 5,000 years later, the base population has reached 1,310,720,000. The total population of China in the cumulative 5,000 years is 15.79 billion (calculated The number is 157,900, 20,000 people ≈ 15.79 billion people).
B. The total number of dishes eaten by the Chinese population: assuming the average life span of a person is 60 years, and the average daily food is 1 kilogram, the amount consumed by each person in a 60-year life is 21,600 kilograms, or 21.6 tons. Multiplying the two figures of the total per capita consumption and the total population, the total consumption of all Chinese people in 5,000 years is 340,964,432,000 tons ≈ 340 billion tons.
C. The total number of chopsticks produced in China over the past 5,000 years: assuming that the average life span of Chinese people is 69 years, the average annual use of chopsticks is 1 pair, and the lifetime usage of chopsticks per person is 60 pairs. It is known that China's total population in 5,000 years was 15.79 billion. Multiplying the total population and per capita chopstick usage, it is estimated that the total number of chopsticks used by all Chinese people in 5,000 years was 947.4 billion pairs. Suppose the total output of chopsticks in China is the total usage plus the inventory turnover of 10, that is, the total output = the total usage of 947.4 billion pairs, the total inventory turnover of 94.74 billion pairs, and the total total production is 1042.14 billion pairs ≈ 10,000 Billions of pairs.
The conclusion is: In the 5,000-year history of civilization, the Chinese have produced about 1 trillion pairs of chopsticks for a total population of 15.99 billion, used chopsticks to accompany meals, and transported 340 billion tons of food!
Astronomical figures, if you think of other related figures of chopsticks, such as total output value, total material consumption, total weight, etc., it will make the world even more stunned. You might as well do an interesting math problem and calculate the total length of China's total chopstick production in 5,000 years. It is known that the total output of chopsticks in 5,000 years was 1 trillion pairs and 2 trillion pieces. If the average length of each chopstick is set to 0.25 meters, then the total output multiplied by the length of each chopstick, the product is 500 billion meters, and It is 500 million kilometers long. It is known that the length of the earth's equator is about 40,000 kilometers, so the total length of Chinese chopsticks can circle the equator 12,500 times. It is also known that the total length of all longitude and latitude lines on the earth is about 1.2 million kilometers, so the total length of Chinese chopsticks is about 416 times the total length of the earth's longitude and latitude lines! Chinese chopsticks that are 416 times the total length of the longitude and latitude lines. It can tightly tie the earth into 12,500 circles...
Is this the chopstick invented by the ancient Chinese, excluded from the great inventions, and able to tie the earth to death?
Is this the first invented chopstick that combines 18 functions, several materials, and several patterns, and can be used as tableware, gifts, and sacrificial vessels?
Is this the chopstick that gave rise to incense sticks, ruler pens, chip gossip, fence purlins, abacus characters and even the ancient Chinese arithmetic -×÷gt;lt;=?
Now we can analyze chopsticks as two straight lines moving relative to each other.
The "Chopstick Law" came about when it was my daughter's tenth birthday. I wrote a letter overnight and drew a huge "ten" in the letter. I also used associative methods to combine concepts related to "ten" such as Star Crossing Hospital. The Christian Red Cross, etc., as well as the Chopstick Law are completely poured into the lines. It is too difficult for a ten-year-old daughter to understand such profound philosophies as latitude and longitude, focus, radiation, and four-dimensional time and space from the word "ten". In fact, what I want to say is not limited to this. Chopsticks represent a kind of local traditional culture that best represents the Chinese people's ideological orientation and life values. Rather, chopsticks are the character "人" composed of two strokes. One stroke and one stroke are oriented to the spiritual level and the material level. They depend on cultural needs and economic needs. They conflict with the dual realm of impartiality and partiality. They pursue the Compound maxims of idealism and pragmatism. The word "人" can perfectly resemble this ancient China that takes the Golden Mean as the way and the word "中" as the foundation of the ethnic group and the country. In fact, putting people first is the starting point and destination of what Chinese people call heaven, earth, and human beings. If it were not for the shackles of thousands of years of slave and feudal society, the birthplace of global humanistic thought and humanism would have been in China. Let’s take a look at the Chinese “people” established by the Huazong and Han ancestors. They looked high and far, walked with their chests high, and relied on their two upright legs to mark their departure from the animal population.