Do you know how to use chopsticks taboo?

Last Updated on 10/30/2021 by てんしょく飯

Rushing Chopsticks

Put your mouth on the edge of the tableware and squeeze the food with chopsticks. Or scratch your head with chopsticks

At the funeral

After the cremation, there is a ritual to put the ashes into the urn by the hands of the bereaved family and relatives, which is called “bone raising”. Bone raising is also an important place to remember the farewell to the deceased. Chopsticks are used in this scene.

As a group of two people, the bones are transferred to the urn by the method of “handing chopsticks”.

Handing chopsticks

Chopsticks passing (also called transfer chopsticks, combined chopsticks, and picking chopsticks) are known as “disgusting chopsticks”, which are considered to be a manner to avoid when using chopsticks during meals. This is to remind you.

The chopsticks used are not only long, but they are different from ordinary chopsticks, such as a combination of chopsticks with slightly different lengths, or a set of one bamboo and one wooden chopstick. In many cases, it is made up. (Depending on religion, region, etc.)

Non-meal chopsticks

Tori chopsticks

In Japan, it is common to make individual meals in which each person eats the required amount in each container, and personal wares in which the tableware used by each individual is fixed to each person. , Large plate dishes and hot pot dishes shared by a large number of people usually have chopsticks and a common spoon, which are used to separate them. Straight chopsticks taken directly with the chopsticks you are using are considered unsanitary and a violation of etiquette.

Saibashi

Chopsticks used for cooking and serving dishes and for sharing meals. Usually, it is considerably longer than chopsticks for meals, and is about 1.5 to 2.5 times longer.