The standard length of chopsticks is seven inches six points, representative have desires, to show and animals have different nature.Some people admire westerners eat with forks and knives, feel this kind of posture and manner that has grade.But also learned after only occasionally use.All meals with a knife and fork in daily life of Chinese people, most propbably is wonderful work.
A knife and fork is metallurgy mature after gear.And metallurgy is just invented by the 15th century, before the widely used in daily life, people in the west is actually eat with hand.
Why it is two chopsticks, is called a pair of chopsticks?There are tai chi and the concept of Yin and Yang.Tai chi is a Yin and Yang are two;One is two, two is one;A medium containing 2, 2 for one.This is the Chinese philosophy, westerners don't understand.
Chopsticks when using, pay attention to cooperation and harmony.A move, a still, to clamp.Moving at all, or not move at all, not just clip.This is the principle of Yin and Yang, China also has the leverage of western mechanics.
Chopsticks and acupuncture, massage and scrapping.Old people become a vagrant, as long as there is a pair of chopsticks, what's wrong with can get weigh in hand.Even forgot to take, easy to break off the branch or reed, broken, in stone sharpening, washing in the water, can also be used.
The Chinese civilization and western civilization originated from the myth.Split between western later time god, to do things by science, life by religion.China does not have.China what all together: turn xiangu, iron li, lu dongbin, sun wukong, pig eight quit to these gods are people too, they in the boundless huge crowd;Chinese ideal and reality, the soul and the body also is unity, faith, in every day with chopsticks gestures are concept.This is a kind of insight and wisdom.
We are now a lot of people, every day hold chopsticks pointing and outspoken self-mockery himself and people without faith, how west, thought it is humor, is humble, there is a realm.It is ignorance.Ignorance is fearless.
Nixon in the 80 s, out of a book called "1999, these", is very famous.Reason is that the disintegration of the Soviet union in less than 1999 automatic, both confirmed his prediction, and to deliver a strategy of the United States of the former Soviet union.This is an American classic case with Chinese wisdom beat his opponent.
Americans are on the Korean battlefield was experiencing a vestige of Chinese badly before he began to study Chinese culture.The enemy without fighting, just a meter in the sun tzu's 36 meter, americans spent 40 years study and practice, didn't get it.At this rate, the other 35 meter also learn and practice of 35 x40 = 1420.
Delighted americans is that Chinese are in the same period for ancestors left all the things the lash.This gave them chance to catch.
Today, Chinese society of the problem is not the Chinese did not faith, but lost the wisdom of the ancestors left behind, without faith.In Chinese and western civilization full contact, communication and the process of collision, there are a lot of echo interference in the things we value judgment, so that we spend for charming eye, five heart, nerve.
Delighted americans is that Chinese are in the same period for ancestors left all the things the lash.This gave them chance to catch.
Today, Chinese society of the problem is not the Chinese did not faith, but lost the wisdom of the ancestors left behind, without faith.In Chinese and western civilization full contact, communication and the process of collision, there are a lot of echo interference in the things we value judgment, so that we spend for charming eye, five heart, nerve.
