Long long ago, once upon a time in a far away land, lived a couple. They were an early man and an early woman. They lived in a cave, and were scared of day light. But the night was still bright enough for them to see. There weren't many clouds at that time, the sky was clear; numerous clear twinkling stars, and the cave used to be lit up by the reflection of the bright night that was illuminated by the open moon and diamond like stars. Inside the cave, was a puddle of water that they always drank from, and fishes that they would catch from. Fish was their favorite dish. After all, that was all they had, besides spirulina.
Every morning they would lick the dry microscopic freshwater blue-green algae phytoplankton from the rocks on the bank of the pond. it was rich in protein.day, on a rainy night, when the sky was gloomy, the wife/early-woman became curious about what lay beyond the cave. They were not yet familiar with talking. So, she gave a monkey gesture to the early man pointing her whole right hand outside the cave. The man understood her gestures, and exactly what she meant. He was a curious too. The next morning, when the wife woke up, she realized that the man was not there. She was anxious, and started to make noise hopping here and there near the opening of the cave. She did not know what else to do. After a while she got tired, and returned back to her favorite spot of rock that she used to lay upon. Two days passed by, she became growingly sad and then and morning was on the rise again. She woke up by some strange noise.
It was a bamboo stick, and the man was playing with it inside the tent. She got excited, and but did not know how to express it. She had never felt like that before. She just walked around the man slowly in a curious fashion staring at the bamboo stick, which was about a feet long and 2 centimeters in diameter. She had never seen anything like that before, so light light and yet strong and so straight and yet green. The couple did not have many things to play with. Everyday the couple would stack small pebbles of rock on top of one another until they fell down on the solid ground. The falling part was the most fun part. They were primarily intrigued by the different sounds that each pebble produced even though all the pebbles fell down almost at the same time.
The couple would often produce a peculiar sound and jump in the air if the pebbles produced any different kind of sound the previous ones. It was inherently what laughter was to become. After a while, playing with pebbles became redundantly boring. They were familiar with the sounds of it. That was innately the nature of pure music at that time, simply different sounds. One day while the man was holding the stick, it fell down from his hand and produced a hollow sound. That became their new favorite toy. But they only had one stick. The man did not want to go of the cave. So he, broke it into two pieces. They played with the sticks as long as they liked, and experimented striking it at different stuff. They found a new way to catch the fish with it.
They would just strike the bamboo on a pool of fishes randomly and when one was caught, they would just stick it in their mouth. That was one story about what was about to become the early process of evolution in the invention of the chop stick. One day, the wife got sick. It became worse and worse, day by day, until she passed away on a stormy dark night. The man could no longer stay in that cave because of old memories, and carried his belongings to another cave, the cave where he had found the bamboo stick. There, the bamboo became the only thing that reminded him of his deceased wife, and so he would always keep the bamboo with him and would always eat with both the bamboo sticks when he missed her. He would hold one bamboo with his right hand and the other with his left hand, and then eat fish with it. There, he realized that he was not the only one when a bunch of bamboo tribe returned back to their tent. Don't be confused with the name, the bamboo tribe never used any of their bamboos that grew by their caves.
At first, they became aggressive with him and scared him away. He would just walk to one corner every time he was threatened. However, after a few days, when the bamboo tribe saw that he was using bamboo tool and understood that he was harmless. They started to be friends with him, and he taught them how to break the bamboos into pieces and how to use them as tools. After several years, some one from the tribe got into an accident with a wild animal and his right hand was injured. He started using only only stick with his left hand to eat his food. After a few days, he used both his bamboo sticks with his left hand to eat it. And that was the first two chopstick ever used. After that, many members of the bamboo tribe started to learn the use of the two chopstick one by one, and generation after generation. The story about the invention of the two bamboo sticks, later to be known as chopsticks, was one day recorded on the walls of one of the caves where the bamboo tribe once used to live.
