why do the chinese use chopsticks instead of forks and knives?

Question

its for a school thing

Answer 1

They cut the food into small pieces before they cook it. There is no need for a knife when you eat it.
My girlfriend comes from Thailand. She says that when Thai people get tired of the chopsticks they use fork and spoon. Still no knife.

Answer 2

Why doesn't everyone else use chopsticks instead of forks and knives? The teacher must know something but it seems that's just the tool they developed to eat with thousands of years ago.They probably didn't have iron use at the time and just used wooden sticks to eat with.I don't think they had a huge beef industry thousands of years aho so they didn't really need forks when sticks picked up rice,noodles,vegetables,and thinly sliced meats quite easily.I would love to know the actual answe to this question per your teacher.

Answer 3

Unlike Jaike who seems rather small minded and probably has never met anyone from China, the Chinese have used chopsticks long before they invented pasta and gunpowder. Much of the food (like rice) is "shoveled" rether than picked up when eating. In the old days, before metal was even worked the chinese could fashion chopsticks out of twigs and eat in a civilized manner.
At the same time, we were eating with our hands.
They were just more polite.

Answer 4

according to the information on the sleeve for chopsticks at a chinese restaurant:
knives where considered weapons back then and they couldn't cut their food w/the spoon. Forks were not invented yet so they came up with chopsticks to use in place of a knife to cut the food.

Answer 5

A vegetarian, Confucius believed knives would remind people of slaughterhouses and were too violent for use at the table.

The Japanese warrior culture takes this one step further .. they were a violent people and did not want to fear lunch so they did not want swords and knives to be visiable during dinner.

Later the tea house was invented so that the Samurai could take off their swords and to have a non-violent disipline.

Answer 6

The most freely available and easily worked material for making things in pre-indistrial asia is bamboo. It's really easy to make chopsticks out of bamboo. It's really hard to make forks.

Answer 7

ok im chinese. i use chopsticks sometimes, but i prefer 2 use knife and forks :) Depends what ya eatin2, escpecially when im eatin eatin gd old fish and chips lol. its pretty much tradition tho.
and jaike if i ever see u i will personally beat the s### out of u

Answer 8

becuz meals in china are 'just take and eat'there's no need to cut like steaks, food are serve bite size so chinese' instead of using hands they just usetwo grabbing sticks. And its also a tradition

Answer 9

it forms part of their culture n tradition,however they do use forks n knives when they are tired.

Answer 10

they wanna make their life difficult thats why
i have a rest. that is chinese and in the 8yrs of it being open and having chinese and japanese and philipinese chefs i still dont know how to use chopstix as an eating weapon