A pair of chopsticks, seemingly simple but contains extremely rich cultural connotation, not only set to choose, dial, clamp, mix, steak, and other functions into an organic whole, Chinese chopsticks is roughly divided into five categories: bamboo chopsticks, metal chopsticks, dental bone chopsticks, jade chopsticks, chopsticks in chemistry.
Bamboo chopsticks is the most primitive chopsticks in China, by the largest number of people is also a popular from ancient chopsticks.Ranging from ancient breed is various, brown chopstick is one of the most high-end, bamboo chopsticks, xiang chopstick is also a rare breed, now has been difficult to find.Hunan nanzhu chopsticks can be erected in the water, so have "magic chopsticks", hangzhou west lake tianzhu chopsticks is also one big specialty;The variety of wooden chopsticks are a dime a dozen, mahogany, nanmu, common jujube and hollies, all can making chopsticks, among them with hard ebony chopsticks most expensive.The earliest Chinese to bronze metal chopsticks chopsticks, and then gradually in the iron, copper, gold, silver chopsticks chopsticks chopsticks, and development to the present and the stainless steel chopsticks.
  A large family of ancient popular use metal chopsticks, to show their noble identity.Silver chopsticks has good disinfection effect, but the price is expensive gold chopsticks palace noble symbol of social status and position, so the emperor of the Ming and qing dynasties are mostly use gold or silver chopsticks to eat.
Now eating has been rarely use metal chopsticks, shopping malls supermarkets sell at present most is bamboo chopsticks, its advantage is cheap, diverse styles, however this kind of chopsticks loss too fast, a little do not pay attention to ventilation and cleaning is easy to produce mildew and bacteria.For the pursuit of quality and durability of the hotel, they tend to be a new alloy chopsticks, this kind of chopsticks, durable, environmental protection, easy to clean, not deformation, is one of the recommended quality chopsticks.