{"id":8580,"date":"2019-10-31T07:49:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/are-chopsticks-superior-to-the-knife-and-fork\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:49:28","slug":"are-chopsticks-superior-to-the-knife-and-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/are-chopsticks-superior-to-the-knife-and-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Are chopsticks superior to the knife and fork?"},"content":{"rendered":"
With 1.4 billion people ploughing through 80 billion pairs of throwaway chopsticks each year, China has admitted its forests can no lo<\/em>nger provide enough cutlery for its dinner tables.
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"We must change our co<\/em>nsumption habits and encourage people to carry their own tableware," said Bo Guangxin, the chairman of Jilin Forestry Industry Group, to his fellow delegates at the Natio<\/em>nal People’s Congress.
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Pointing out that o<\/em>nly 4,000 chopsticks can be carved from a 20-year-old tree, he even went so far as to suggest that restaurants offered me<\/em>tal knives and forks instead. If Mr Bo’s suggestion is widely adopted, it would be a dark moment in the chopstick’s 4,000-year history.
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It was Da Yu, the founder of the Xia dynasty, who is said to have first used two sticks to eat his food in roughly 2100 BC.
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It was an invention born of urgency. In his rush to reach a flood zone, Da Yu did not want to wait for his meat in his wok to cool, instead seizing a pair of twigs and wolfing down his meal.
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Chopsticks quickly became popular around Asia. However Chinese chopsticks are lo<\/em>nger than their Korean and Japanese counterparts in order to reach the communal dishes in the centre of the table. Koreans also often use me<\/em>tal chopsticks because of their love of barbecue.
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Today, however, China is chopping down 20 million mature trees a year to feed its disposable chopstick habit, according to Mr Bo.
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Nor can China find enough wood in its own forests. China is now the world’s largest im<\/em>porter of wood and even im<\/em>ports chopsticks from America, wher a company in Georgia realised that the state’s native gum wood would be perfectly suited to make the utensil.
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A previous estimate from China’s state forestry administration, ba<\/em>sed on statistics from 2004 to 2009, put the yearly total at 57 billion disposable chopsticks, a much lower sum.
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