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*Hold your chopsticks towards their end, and not in the middle or the front third.

*When you are not using your chopsticks and when you are finished eating, lay them down in front of you with the tip to left.

*Do not stick chopsticks into your food, especially not into rice. Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into the rice that is put onto the altar.

*Do not pass food with your chopsticks directly to somebody else’s chopsticks. Only at funerals are the bones of the cremated body given in that way from person to person.

*Do not spare food with your chopsticks.

*Do not point with your chopsticks to something or somebody.

*Do not move your chopsticks around in the air too much, nor play with them.

*Do not move around plates or bowls with chopsticks.

*To separate a piece of food into two pieces, exert controlled pressure on the chopsticks while moving them apart from each other. This needs much exercise.

*If you have already used your chopsticks, use the opposite end of your chopsticks in order to move food from a shared plate to your own plate.