Traditional sticks for sushi, the called has, were borrowed from Chinese and appeared in Japan approximately in 300 AD. And in general their history contains more than 3 millennia. The Japanese children begin to be acquainted with art of possession of sticks in the 100-th day from the date of appearance of the child on light. Our wise narrow-eyed fellows do it not only in order that the kid was acquainted with the culture of acceptance of food, but also grew clever as fine motor skills develop intelligence. Many residents of the Slavic countries are not able to use sticks for sushi and would like to know how it can learn.
Even if you do not wish to make an impression of the expert on exotic cuisine, ability to use sticks as it is done by residents of the Asian countries, it is useful to you at visit of east restaurant with the pleasant person of an opposite sex or business colleagues. Not to pass for the ignoramus and not to break negotiations, it is worth working a little at himself, so it is necessary to get acquainted with technology of possession of a hasa closer.
How to use the Chinese chopsticks?
- First, it is necessary to pick up tool length correctly. Having put big and index fingers at right angle, to receive length of the imagined hypotenuse. This size is called hitoaty. Having increased it by one and a half times, we will receive the recommended length of sticks.
- Secondly, it is necessary to define the place in which it is recommended to close fingers on adaptation. From the thin ends to lay off distance of the hitoat is and will be the right place.
- Those who wants to know, properly to use sticks for beaters are recommended to press to each other those fingers which will act as a motionless basis for maintenance of adaptation. It is a little finger and anonymous. It is necessary to extend average and index fingers a little forward.
- Thick part of the lower tool needs to be enclosed under a thumb so that the thin end it leaned on a middle or ring finger in a nail (it to whom as it is more convenient). The thick end has to act over a brush approximately on a quarter.
- The top stick has to lie the thick end on a forefinger in the place which we defined as the hitoat. A tip of a thumb we fix adaptation, holding it on index in a nail. Actually, quite so we hold a pencil in hand.
- To understand, properly correctly to use sticks for sushi, it is necessary at meal time to leave the lower part of adaptation alone, and to take food, manipulating only the top stick.
- Straightening index and average fingers, it is possible to move apart the tool and it is easy to clasp with it sushi or a beater. Having made bending of fingers, to close sticks, to clamp in them the taken piece and to send it to a mouth.
Before showing to people around miracles of this equipment, it is recommended to be trained at first at home, having tried to take the tool not only a subject about a matchbox size, but also a rice kernel. Asians with its help can not only transport food in a mouth, but also crush and cut it on smaller pieces and also mix various sauces. Using the Chinese sticks, you remember how it is correctly necessary to hold a brush: not to strain, move a hand fingers plastically, easy and it is weakened.
If the visit of restaurant is necessary, and you did not learn to be active sticks – it does not matter. It is possible to ask the waiter to bring the tool which has connection in the form of a spring. It is much easier for them to use and thus the risk to lose face behind a table d'hote will be minimized.
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