How long is a Chopstick, even Harvard University students may not be able to answer

People all over the world often eat with three kinds of utensils, knife and fork, chopsticks and hand grasping. Chinese people are used to using chopsticks, chopsticks is one of the symbols of Chinese food culture.
The Chinese invented chopsticks. The earliest chopsticks found are copper ones unearthed from the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province, more than 3,000 years ago. Later spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other SINOSPHERE. Commonly used chopsticks from bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, ivory, metal, plastic and other materials, shape or square or round. Because Chopsticks are held in the fingers to pick up food, it is also said to be beneficial to exercise the brain.

It takes two sticks to hold food, so we call them "a pair of Chopsticks" . Two Chopsticks are called a pair of chopsticks, although simple, but contains the philosophy of the Chinese: Tai Chi is one, Yin and Yang are two; one is two, two is one; one contains two, two into one.
Chopsticks were called "Chopsticks" in the pre-qin period, "Chopsticks" in the Han Dynasty, and "chopsticks" in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that in the area of Jiangsu, boatmen pay attention to the luck of the boat, "Chopsticks" who "live" also, in the water boat of course like "fast" and do not like to stay in front or even capsize, so change the name "Kuai Er" for "Kuai Er" , meaning to let the boat go fast. By the Qing Dynasty, foreigners in Shanghai translated chopsticks as "fast stick" , so later there was a "Kuizi" name. Chopsticks are mainly made of bamboo, over time, the descendants of the "fast" plus a bamboo word, known as the "Chopsticks" .
We use chopsticks everyday, so, how long is a chopstick after all? I guess a lot of college students can't answer that correctly.

The standard length of Chopsticks is seven inches six minutes, on behalf of people have seven emotions six desires! Chopsticks a round one end square, said the sky round place. Cultural, right? We have to admire our ancestors.
"The analects of Confucius" said: "Do not learn etiquette, no to stand. If a man observe no rules of propriety , If a man observe no rules of propriety , Why does he not quickly die . Therefore, when we use chopsticks, not only as a tool to grab food, it is an important part of the "ritual" . Therefore, we use chopsticks in a lot of attention and taboo.
For example, if we put the chopstick on the table before or during the meal, it is called "three long and two short" , which means "death" . Because the components of the coffin are two short boards, the two sides plus the bottom of a total of three long boards, five boards together to make the coffin is just two short.
For example, when eating with chopsticks with finger people, called "fairy guide" let each other feel with the meaning of blame. For example, holding chopsticks in one's hand and acting as if no one is around, searching the dish with chopsticks back and forth, is called "the chopsticks patrol the city" ; for example, holding chopsticks in the dish can not live the pick-and-pull, like grave robbers, is called "the fans dig the grave" , all of these practices are distasteful and uncouth.

There are many other "polite" things we use chopsticks for, such as picking up food and not putting it back on the plate. Don't compete with other people's Chopsticks. When go to a banquet, should not move chopsticks in advance in the host and so on. These are all about a person's self-cultivation.
In Modern Society, many families are the treasure of the whole family, all for the child, always worried about the child's life is owed. Therefore, the child in the family is often the ancestor of the whole family. You never teach your child the etiquette of using chopsticks when eating. Grow Up, not only do not know the length of chopsticks, do not know the courtesy of people.
Therefore, we often say do not let the child "lose in the starting line" , in fact, the real "starting line" is how to use chopsticks.