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From Hand to Mouth: Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, & Chopsticks & The Table Manners to Go With Them by James Giblin (Crowell, 1987) is a good resource to find information about chopsticks. In the book, it states the chopsticks' name means "the quick little fellows". Also, it is either greedy people who cannot wait for their supper invented the chopstick to get their food or it is Confucius who said people should not take knives onto the table. The book is a children's book, so it is very easy to read. The pictures are black and white. It is still at the library.Coffsneeze 13:42, 6 April 2007 (UTC) http://www.factmonster.com/spot/chopsticks1.html also states some history on chopsticks.
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Many people believe chopsticks were invented in ancient China, but people do not know when it was invented there. still sounds a little awkward to my sense of language. I tried to replace the last part with ..but people do not know when., but this does not improve the sentence either, any suggestions? --Eptalon 22:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Are we going to delete this section? I deleted it, but then reverted it after second thought. --Isis§(talk) 01:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
The page is protected against editing for the next three days. The section in question is given blow. I invite anyone to comment here if it should be re-added (I have removed it, following Creol's comment above). --Eptalon 12:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
After using the traditional chopsticks dating back for over 3000 years it went through a transformation. In Hongkong, they named the new utensil CHOPSPOONS (羹子筷).
There needs a picture of a person holding chopsticks. 122.62.47.209 (talk) 06:51, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
While I still think this should remain a good article even if not edited, there is a problem in the following sentence:
If production continues at the current level, China's forests will be gone in about a decade.
This was published in 2006, it has been 16 years, and China still has forests. Lights and freedom (talk) 07:26, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello,
this ised to be a good article, but issues were raised. As a consequence, I have demoted the article. Do not hesitate to re-sumbit when the issues have been fixed. Eptalon (talk) 09:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
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