The use of chopsticks has been (1)
a
a
big part of Chinese food culture for centuries.When cooking food or picking it up,a pair of chopsticks always comes for use.
So how did chopsticks come into being?It's said that Dayu,a legendary ruler of ancient China (2)
who/that
who/that
helped his people fight floods,invented them.In those days,people (3)
ate
ate
(eat) only with their hands.But Dayu was busy preparing for flood control work and often had his meals in the wild.Mostly,he hurried to deal (4)
with
with
unexpected accidents and didn't want to wait to eat.The meat (5)
cooked
cooked
(cook) in the pot was too hot to pick up with his hands.So one day Dayu picked up some twigs(細枝)(6)
to help
to help
(help) him hold the meat.Later,the twigs (7)
gradually
gradually
(gradual) became the chopsticks we know today.
But of course,this is just a story.The (8)
earliest
earliest
(early) chopsticks archaeologists(考古學家) have found so far are more than 3,000 years old,(9)
dating
dating
(date) back to the Shang Dynasty.The six bronze chopsticks were found in Yinxu,one of China's oldest archaeological (10)
sites
sites
(site),in Anyang,Henan province.