Traditional Chinese Tableware Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Chinese cuisine is world famous because of its unique features of colour, fragrance, taste and shape and careful selection of tableware. The earliest material for making Chinese tableware was bronze. Then appeared silver and tin alloy tableware. Silverware was the most precious. Although tin-made tableware was not as precious as silverware, its craftsmanship was equally exquisite. Some have a facility in the bottom to hold hot water to keep food warm at the table. Chinese tableware include bowl, dishes, chopsticks, spoons, etc. Chinese people have been using chopsticks for more than 3000 years. In ancient China, they were called zhu. They began to be called kuaizi since the Ming Dynasty.