was there a time that chinese people uses spoon or fork instead of chopsticks?

Question

was there a certain era during the emperors that chopsticks were not in use?

Answer 1

Yeah! Chinese people use spoon and forks too, they dont only use chopsticks.

Answer 2

Ceramic spoons have been used to drink soup.
Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_soup_spoon

Forks and knives were never used in the past because they are considered weapons and barbaric. (I suppose that was the ancient anti-terrorism act eh?)

Chinese dishes are served bit size so they are easily picked up with chopsticks or scooped with spoons. So, no. There was not a time that forks & spoons were used "instead" of chopsticks.

Modern Chinese use all kinds of utesils including chopsticks, forks, knives and spoons of course.

Answer 3

Spoons were used since ancient Chinese periods for liquid foods (ie soup, porridge) and so were chopsticks. Chinese people did not use forks until western dining was introduced to the chinese community.

Answer 4

chinese people use spoons to drink soup, but they started using forks when western people came to china but i think they used both chopstick and forks during that time

Answer 5

It is a commonly believed myth that the table fork was introduced to the West during the Middle Ages, as the Romans used forks for serving.

Before the fork was introduced, many Westerners were reliant on the spoon and knife as the only eating utensils. Thus, people would largely eat food with their hands, calling for a common spoon when required. Members of the aristocracy would sometimes be accustomed to manners considered more proper and hold two knives at meals and use them both to cut and transfer food to the mouth.

The fork was introduced in the Middle East before the year 1000. The earliest forks usually had only two tines, but those with numerous tines caught on quickly. The tines on these implements were straight, meaning the fork could only be used for spearing food and not for scooping it. The fork allowed meat to be easily held in place while being cut. The fork also allowed one to spike a piece of meat and shake off any undesired excess of sauce or liquid before consuming it. First introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Theophanu, Byzantine wife of Emperor Otto II, the table fork had, by the 11th century made its way to Italy. In Italy it became quite popular by the 14th century, being commonly used for eating by merchant and upper classes by 1600. It was quite proper for a guest to arrive with their own fork and spoon enclosed in a box called a cadena; this usage was introduced to the French court with Catherine de' Medici's entourage. Long after the personal table fork had become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the duc de Chartres to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon:"King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas." In Perrault's contemporaneous fairy tale of La Belle au bois dormant (1697), each of the fairies invited for the christening is presented with a splendid cadena.

The fork's arrival in northern Europe was more difficult. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many years it was viewed as an unmanly Italian affectation. Some writers of the Roman Catholic Church expressly disapproved of its use, seeing it as "excessive delicacy": "God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating."[1][2] It was not until the 18th century that the fork became commonly used in Great Britain. It was around this time that the curved fork used today was developed in Germany. The standard four-tine design became current in the early nineteenth century.

Answer 6

At first they use to eat with their hands
Somebody invented a cleaner,safer way to eat food
With chopsticks

Answer 7

hard stuff. search at google or bing. that could actually help!