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Who Invented Chopsticks?

Who Invented Chopsticks?
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     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   4.51

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    burning, offensive, impressed, legendary, mid-air, teaching, actually, martial, master, traveled, benefits, owner, brilliant, utensil, slender, task
     content words:    Emperor Shun

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Who Invented Chopsticks?
By Vickie Chao 		  
1     How do you eat your food? Some people use forks and knives. Some use their hands. And some, like Chinese, use chopsticks.
 
2     Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of slender sticks usually made of wood or bamboo. For more than 3,000 years, Chinese have been using this utensil for their everyday meal. Holding the pair between the thumb and fingers of one hand, they can pick up any bit of food with this tool. The food item can be big. Or it can be small. It can be square-shaped. Or it can be round. No matter what it is, there is no problem!
 
3     Granted, chopsticks are not the easiest thing to use when it comes to eating. So you may wonder why Chinese invented it in the first place.

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