《韩非子·喻老》说:“昔者纣为象箸,而箕子(商纣时的贤臣)怖。”这是所能看到的使用筷子的最早记载。纣是商朝的末代君主,距今3000多年,他已使用精美的象牙筷子(象箸),可见筷子的产生早有年头。从“箸”(又写作“筯”)的字形看,早期的筷子是由竹木做的。纤细的竹木筷子要保存下来不容易,所以发掘古墓,已经找不到太早的竹木筷子实物。在被誉为“1993年十大考古发现”之一的江苏高邮龙虬庄新石器时代遗址,发掘出42 “Han Feizi Yu Lao” said: “The old man was like a scapegoat, and Jizi (when he was a servant) was scared.” This is the earliest record we can see when using chopsticks.纣 is the last monarch of the Shang dynasty. For more than 3,000 years now, he has used beautiful ivory chopsticks (like 箸), showing that chopsticks have been around for a long time. From the glyphs of “箸” (pronounced “筯”), the early chopsticks were made from bamboo. Slim bamboo chopsticks to save it is not easy, so explore the tomb, can not find too early bamboo chopsticks kind. In the Neolithic site of Longyaozhuang, Gaoyou, Jiangsu, one of the “Ten Archaeological Discoveries in 1993”, 42