古人称筷子为著。中国人使用筷子的历史,已有3000多年,传说早在商代,纣王已用象(牙)箸。筷子的器形,最初,两头同样粗细。先秦时期乃至汉初的著,都是上下粗细一般,分不出手握的筷头和夹食的筷足。迄今为止,最早的铜筷出土于云南祥云大波那木椁墓,整体圆柱形,长20多厘米,属春秋晚期,距今2500多年。安徽贵池徽家冲一座小山坡上,出土的一批东周青铜器中有铜筷一双,细长方形,残长20.3厘米,宽0.4 The ancients called chopsticks for. Chinese use of chopsticks history, more than 3,000 years, as early as the legendary Shang Dynasty, King has been used like a tooth. Chopsticks shape, initially, both the same thickness. During the pre-Qin period and even the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the top and bottom are generally thick, can not hold the chopsticks head and folder food chopsticks enough. So far, the earliest copper chopsticks unearthed in Yunnan Xiangyun big Bo Na Mu tomb, the overall cylindrical, more than 20 centimeters long, is the late Spring and Autumn, more than 2500 years ago. Anhui Guichi Huijia Chong on a hillside, a group of Eastern Zhou Dynasty bronze unearthed in a pair of copper chopsticks, slender square, residual length 20.3 cm, width 0.4