The output value of 13,000 people exceeds 100 million?"Chopsticks" in Fujian Town

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Introduction: As the saying goes, "people use food as the sky", which means simple, that is, ordinary people use eating for their own life. But few people know that this sentence is related to chopsticks. Chopsticks are a meal tool that Chinese people have not changed since ancient times. The shape of the chopsticks is straight, tail, and round heads. The chopsticks are used for eating, the entrance of the chopstick head is the heaven, isn't this meaning "eating as the sky"?

As a traditional Chinese dining tool, chopsticks have long been part of our lives. Today, it is not just a tool used when people eat, but one of the important signs of Chinese food culture. So, how did chopsticks be manufactured? What are the differences in chopstick culture in different countries? How does bamboo chopsticks in a small town in Fujian conquer the East Asian market and bring more than 100 million output value?

1. Huaxia a pair of chopsticks, leading to cultural differences

Chopsticks are one of the signs of the Chinese diet and one of the commonly used tableware in the world. China is the origin of chopsticks. According to historical records, the history of Chinese chopsticks can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty.

Copper 箸 unearthed from Yinxu site

Shang Dynasty bronze 铜

Later, to North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other East Asian and Southeast Asian cultural circles. Until now, there are 224 countries and regions around the world, and more than 1.5 billion people are using chopsticks, accounting for about 30%of the world's total population. When chopsticks were transmitted to nearby neighboring countries and Southeast Asia, their shapes and functions changed some of the local culture and formed various types of chopsticks culture.

Japanese -style chopsticks are wide and thin, and generally shorter than Chinese -style chopsticks. This is because when the Japanese are eating, they usually put the food and soup bowl on one tray. The habit of eating around the table like the Chinese people like the Chinese people, from time to time, it is not necessary to design the chopsticks too long. In addition, Japanese people often eat fish, and pointed chopsticks are more convenient to use.

South Korea's chopsticks are flat, generally made of metal, which is difficult to use. Why are Korean chopsticks so flat? It is said that this is related to the structure of the Korean house. In the early days, the Korean house was separated from the kitchen and the dining room. The height of the ground in each area was also different. The design of the chopsticks can be used to prevent the chopsticks from rolling down during the dishes.

As for the Korean -style chopsticks, most of them are metal, because South Korea has the eating habits of eating kimchi and pickling vegetables, and these foods are pickled and placed for a long time, which is easy to change and use metal to facilitate poison. It is easy to clean, because Korean cuisine is mostly marinated and a lot of sauce is added. If you use wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks for a long time, it is easy to have odors, and there is also doubts that are not clean.

Among the three types of chopsticks in China, Japan, and South Korea, Chinese chopsticks are usually the longest. They are between 24cm and 26cm. This is because the Chinese usually sit around a table when they eat and share the dishes in the center of the table. Due to the relatively far away from the vegetables, it will be more convenient to use the chopsticks.

Second, ordinary chopsticks are not ordinary, and the production process is strict

There are many kinds of production materials for chopsticks. Commonly made raw materials include bamboo, wood, bone, porcelain, metal, plastic and other materials. Take wooden chopsticks as an example, let's take a look at the production process of chopsticks:

1. Cook at high temperature

First of all, the cut wooden blocks are cooked at high temperature in salt water. The purpose is to remove impurities and dehydration.

The soaking temperature should be controlled at the range of 70-90 ° C, and the soaking time is about 8h. In addition to abandoning, it also has the effect of bleaching; after the wood is skipped, it is necessary to rinse with water to avoid yellowing. Make the wood stronger, prevent cracking, and facilitate the processing of the rear process.

2. Polishing slice

The wood cooked at high temperature will be placed on the conveyor belt in turn, and the bottom is polished by the machine.

The wood after the polishing is fixed on the cutting machine

The cutting machine cuts the wood into a rule.

3. Chopstick

Before forming, you need to place the cut wooden blocks on the assembly line.

After the placement is completed, the wood will enter the stamping link with the assembly line, which is the molding stage of chopsticks.

After the mold is formed directly, after the rushing is completed, the workers choose the bad products and the burrs.

4. Packaging link

First of all, the workers put the chopsticks in the designed mold, and the width of the mold is consistent with the width of the chopsticks. A pair of chopsticks are rubbed into each way by hand.

The number of mold design is one hundred. Then the workers will raise the mold.

Finally, hold these chopsticks with rubber belts.

Third, one -time wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks, divide the autumn color?

With the hotness of takeaway, China's disposable chopsticks are more and more consumption. According to the data, China consumes more than 50 billion double -time chopsticks each year. This consumption inevitably causes a large number of forests to be destroyed. Machining 5,000 double wood -made disposable chopsticks will consume a long -term poplar tree for 30 years. Disposable wooden chopsticks consume more than 100 acres of forests, totaling 36,000 acres in a year. In addition, chopsticks are also important export products in China. From 2000 to 2006, China exported a total of 165,000 tons of disposable chopsticks, of which 15 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks were exported to the day.

The threat of one -time wooden chopsticks on the environment makes people urgently need to find alternatives, that is, bamboo chopsticks. Bamboo chopsticks are very economically economical, which is increasingly used by renewable nephews. In fact, the production of Chinese bamboo chopsticks has a long history, which can be traced back to the book "Tube" by ancient thinkers and politicians Guan Zhong of the 7th century BC. The ancient Chinese chopsticks are called "箸", and it also reflects that bamboo has been the main raw material for making chopsticks since ancient times. Chopstick

So, what are the advantages of using bamboo as a chopstick? First of all, the texture of bamboo is fine and does not have porous, so it does not absorb too much water. In contrast, the antibacteriality and durability of bamboo chopsticks are stronger and the life is longer. In addition, the growth rate of bamboo is very fast, and it can grow nearly one meter high in 24 hours. Compared with wood nearly 10-20 years of growth cycle, bamboo crops can be harvested in about 3 years. The growth cycle is short. Chopsticks can save 6 times more resources than wood.

Fourth, "Zhuxiang" Jianyang Huangkeng, achieved the first town of bamboo chopsticks in China

In recent years, the application of bamboo chopsticks has become more widely used in life and has continued to increase. According to relevant data, there are currently more than 7.5 billion pairs of bamboo chopsticks in China. Except for most of them in China (including Taiwan Province), about 3 billion pairs are used to export overseas, mainly sold to neighboring countries Japan and South Korea. Essence

Maozhu resource ratio map

China's main bamboo sources are concentrated in the top six areas such as Hunan, Fujian, and Jiangxi. In fact, 90 % of the top ten hometown of bamboo in China comes from these six regions. China is located in the center of the distribution of bamboo in the world. Bamboo resources are very rich. Whether it is the type, area, accumulation volume, and logging volume of bamboo, it ranks first in the Asia -Pacific region and ranks among the best in the world. For my country's major bamboo production areas, the bamboo industry is their economic industry.

Huangkeng Town, known as the "Linhai Bamboo Township", has 172,000 acres of Maogin. It is one of the earliest production sites in Chinese paint bamboo chopsticks and the largest bamboo chopstick production towns in Fujian Province. At present, there are nearly a hundred bamboo chopsticks production and processing enterprises in Huangkeng Town. The annual processing of millions of bamboo bamboo, about 500 million pairs of bamboo chopsticks, and nearly 5,000 of the 13,000 people in the town are engaged in work with bamboo chopsticks. The benefits are about 600 million yuan, and the industrial output value of single chopsticks is nearly 200 million yuan.

"Linhai Zhuxiang" Huangyu Town

It is the so -called reliance to eat mountains, and to eat bamboo. In recent years, around the extension of the Maozhu industry chain, the Huangkeng Town government has guided farmers to introduce technology, conducts steps to develop Maozhu, and pursue in -depth processing appreciation. There are more than 80 Maozhu product companies in the town, with 11 companies in tens of millions of yuan. They mainly produce bamboo chopsticks, bamboo strings, rice spoons and other series of bamboo products.

Conclusion:

At present, the area of ​​bamboo forests in China is continuously expanding, but the relative forest wood resources are constantly narrowing. For our country with deteriorating environment and low natural forest stocks, it is a high -quality alternative material. Bamboo chopsticks are good tableware for healthy, environmentally friendly and economical, and have great potential for international markets. But relatively speaking, the added value of bamboo chopsticks exported in my country is relatively low. Compared with the rich design and style design of Japan and South Korea, the chopsticks made in China can also inject the soul of traditional Chinese culture in design and brand. At the same time The product development strategies of the country, different consumption levels, and different consumer groups promote the efficient use of bamboo resources.

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