Pleasant Grove Review | 1949-04-22 | Page 3 | Plausible Legend of Chopstick Origin

Plausible Legend cf Chopstick Origin The origin of chopsticks those little sticks of wood or ivory which the Chinese and Japanese use so skillfully is lost in antiquity. According to one popular legend, leg-end, once upon a time an ancient emperor of China, fearing an uprising up-rising or possible attempt on his life, passed a law forbidding anyone any-one to use or possess utensils or instruments made of metal. Even in that legendary era, the Chinese disliked eating with their fingers so some ingenious fellow invented in-vented chopsticks and, just as definite defi-nite rules of etiquette govern the correct use of our table cutlery, definite mannerisms denote polite use of chopsticks. -