Who first used chopsticks?

Question: Who first used chopsticks?


Although Research Maniacs' headquarters is in the US, we sometimes have our lunch meetings in Chinese or Japanese restaurants. When eating there, we usually follow the restaurant's custom and eat with chopsticks. In addition to China and Japan, countries like Korea and Vietnam also eat with chopsticks. But do you know who first used chopsticks?

Chopsticks were first used as eating utensils by the Han Dynasty in China. The Han Dynasty ruled 200 years before and after Year 0. Thus, chopsticks are more than 2000 years old. It is also believed that chopsticks were used before that for cooking purposes.

Although the chopsticks we get at our local Chinese restaurant are made of wood, in China, chopsticks are usually made out of bamboo.



Comments from Research Maniacs visitors:

I always eat with chopsticks when I go to restaurants that offer them. It is a fun way of eating. I actually heard that they are fazing out using wood to make disposable chopsticks in Japan and China to save trees. Now they use re-usable plastic chopsticks instead.

Mary
San Jose, California

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From personal experience, I have found that you can lose weight with chopsticks. When eating with chopsticks, you eat slower, you chew your food, your stomach digests the smaller chewed food better, and you get full faster. Give it a try!

Camilla
Mobile, Alabama

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The Chinese may have been the first to use chopsticks, but did you know that some dude here in San Francisco invented and served the Fortune Cookie at his restaurant?

Neil
San Francisco, California



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