Origin of plastic fork spoon

            Cutlery appear much later than the chopsticks. According to the research of Professor Yu Xiuling, cutlery and Europe originated in ancient nomads living habits, they immediately life carry knives, often cooked meat, cut to eat. Later towards sedentary life, Europe dominated by livestock, bread and the like are non-staple food, directly by hand. Staple beef and mutton, the meat cut with a knife, feeding mouth. To the urban settlement after the fork into the home kitchen, it does not have to carry. It is not difficult to see today as the identity of the major Western knife and chopsticks tableware is very different, it is versatile and can be used to slaughter, dissection, cutting cattle and sheep meat, to the edible when cooked, and also serves as cutlery.

            This is the fork in the West usage history. In the East, it has a long history of much use knife and fork. Archaeological findings confirm, dating back 4,000 years ago our ancestors began using a fork. Northwest Qijia cultural sites found some bone fork, it is a three-toothed.
            This fork, with dishes Western fork shape we are using is very close, the size is not too different. Also worthy of special note that when this fork unearthed it and spoon and knife with bone in, show time fork, spoon, knife is supporting three. Also very interesting, with the now tableware Western compatibility it is the same.
            This fork to the Shang and Zhou later still in use. Some of the Shang Dynasty ruins unearthed tombs there, especially in a Warring States tomb unearthed inside there are a lot of forks, there are more than 50 pieces, this is unearthed in Luoyang, and bronze together.
From the Shang Dynasty after the fork into two teeth, it is with the first three-tine not the same, relatively small number.

plastic spork

            Chinese people use a fork meal after the Warring States: the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in Gansu Jiuquan copper fork, Guangdong unearthed the Eastern iron fork, the Yuan Dynasty unearthed in Gansu Zhang County forks, and knives with unearthed, but also unearthed in Shandong Jiaxiang Also compatible cutlery, there is a special place bamboo sheath knife and fork.
             Of course, after the Warring States, a knife and fork unearthed significantly less, indicating that the use of knife and fork chopsticks far less popular.
             Let me say a knife, 7,000 years ago, Zhejiang Hemudu found a lot of fine bone knife. Archaeological discoveries, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Warring States, has been popular bronze spoon-shaped, pointed leaves and a long-handled spoon-shaped tongue-shaped knife. Narrow tang-shaped knife has been used from Spring to the Song and Yuan dynasties over 2,000 years, the production of materials has bronze, silver and gold.
             A photographer's darkroom experiments led to the first generation of plastic,Then like plastic spork these plastics also will appear.
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