Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.If Chinese and Japanese people have spoons for soup and ice cream, why dont they-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(If Chinese and Japanese people have spoons for soup and ice cream, why dont they),it will help you,my kids.
jw...
Answer:
They do use spoon to eat noodle with soup - put some noodle on the spoon using chopsticks, then eat.
Koreans eat rice with spoon, but Japanese don't do so.
I think Japanese table manor is eat soup with chopstick. (Hold the soup bowl and drink the soup, and don't use spoon)
I'm Korean, I can eat ice cream with chopsticks if I want so. ;-)
By the way, chopsticks existed long before Confucianism. It's discussed in 19 century how chopstick is "honoring the food" compare the forks and knives.
Like what?
I'm not sure about you but I don't eat a steak with a spoon. What are you wanting them to use it for?
Who says they don't?
It is called Culture.
It is quite acceptable to pick up the bowl or dish to eat from.
Chinese choose chopsticks as their tableware rather than a knife and fork since Chinese people, under the cultural guidance of Confucianism, consider a knife and fork to represent a sort of violence, and to resemble cold weapons. However, chopsticks reflect gentleness and benevolence, the main moral teachings of Confucianism, but even the Chinese and Japanese people recognize the problems chop sticks present in the eating of soup and ice cream and will use a spoon for these.
They do, recently.
Back in the 1980s, I heard from a professor who'd done a year of exchange in China. The lifestyle there is getting westernized, and all of her students ate their lunch (a bowl of noodles with veggies and a little meat on top) with a spoon. Their schedules were all crunched and they had no time to diddle with chopsticks.
it is not easy to use spoon to eat steaks, vegetables, etc.
and chinese food are most often cut into pieces, so people can use chopsticks to put them in their mouth.
and using chopsticks takes practice, it actually helps enhance your mental ability. and if you can use the left hand to use chopsticks, you will be a little smarter than most people.
well personally I use spoons when eating rice cause it's faster and less messy then using chopsticks. As for the use of chopsticks, they were actually around at the same time as knives and forks it was just that the ancient asians thought it barbaric to saw through and stab food at the dining table.
One word, tradition. They traditionally used chop sticks because they were easy to make and they only ate foods that were edible with chopsticks. The soups they made were put into bowls and sipped but as western dishes such as ice cream arrived, they adapted to spoons, but they still wanted to stick to their tradition, so they still use chopsticks to eat foods that are edible by chopsticks. That's all!
Japanese people do use spoons or tiny forks for cake, jello, pudding, etc.
If you're asking why they don't abandon the use of chopsticks, I gotta tell you, chopsticks are easier to use when eating vegetables, fish, rice, salad, etc. Especially salad!
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Kitty said: Yes.If Chinese and Japanese people have spoons for soup and ice cream, why dont they-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(If Chinese and Japanese people have spoons for soup and ice cream, why dont they),it will help you,my kids.
jw...
Answer:
They do use spoon to eat noodle with soup - put some noodle on the spoon using chopsticks, then eat.
Koreans eat rice with spoon, but Japanese don't do so.
I think Japanese table manor is eat soup with chopstick. (Hold the soup bowl and drink the soup, and don't use spoon)
I'm Korean, I can eat ice cream with chopsticks if I want so. ;-)
By the way, chopsticks existed long before Confucianism. It's discussed in 19 century how chopstick is "honoring the food" compare the forks and knives.
Like what?
I'm not sure about you but I don't eat a steak with a spoon. What are you wanting them to use it for?
Who says they don't?
It is called Culture.
It is quite acceptable to pick up the bowl or dish to eat from.
Chinese choose chopsticks as their tableware rather than a knife and fork since Chinese people, under the cultural guidance of Confucianism, consider a knife and fork to represent a sort of violence, and to resemble cold weapons. However, chopsticks reflect gentleness and benevolence, the main moral teachings of Confucianism, but even the Chinese and Japanese people recognize the problems chop sticks present in the eating of soup and ice cream and will use a spoon for these.
They do, recently.
Back in the 1980s, I heard from a professor who'd done a year of exchange in China. The lifestyle there is getting westernized, and all of her students ate their lunch (a bowl of noodles with veggies and a little meat on top) with a spoon. Their schedules were all crunched and they had no time to diddle with chopsticks.
it is not easy to use spoon to eat steaks, vegetables, etc.
and chinese food are most often cut into pieces, so people can use chopsticks to put them in their mouth.
and using chopsticks takes practice, it actually helps enhance your mental ability. and if you can use the left hand to use chopsticks, you will be a little smarter than most people.
well personally I use spoons when eating rice cause it's faster and less messy then using chopsticks. As for the use of chopsticks, they were actually around at the same time as knives and forks it was just that the ancient asians thought it barbaric to saw through and stab food at the dining table.
One word, tradition. They traditionally used chop sticks because they were easy to make and they only ate foods that were edible with chopsticks. The soups they made were put into bowls and sipped but as western dishes such as ice cream arrived, they adapted to spoons, but they still wanted to stick to their tradition, so they still use chopsticks to eat foods that are edible by chopsticks. That's all!
Japanese people do use spoons or tiny forks for cake, jello, pudding, etc.
If you're asking why they don't abandon the use of chopsticks, I gotta tell you, chopsticks are easier to use when eating vegetables, fish, rice, salad, etc. Especially salad!
correctness,It's Non-profit and only for informational purposes.
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