00:00Within the depths of cuisine lies cosmic lore, chopsticks, the Chinese philosophy they store.
00:07Chopsticks are an indispensable utensil at the Chinese dinner table.
00:11The custom of using chopsticks can be traced back more than 3,000 years.
00:17Their length of 7 chun and 6 fen symbolizes the 7 emotions and 6 desires of human nature.
00:24The round and square ends of chopsticks represent the concepts of heaven is round and earth
00:30is square.
00:32The round head enters the mouth while the square tail is held in the hand, reflecting
00:37the old saying that food is heavenly.
00:40The head and tail of chopsticks correspond to the qian and kun trigrams, which refer
00:45to the heaven and the earth respectively.
00:47That two chopsticks make one pair, a yin and a yang, constitutes the image of collaterality,
00:54complementing each other, they are two and one at the same time.
00:58Seasons take their turns one by one and chopsticks serves three meals a day and throughout the
01:03four seasons.
01:04The Chinese cultural tradition is passed on from generation to generation.
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