The Ming poet Ch'eng Liang-kuei apostro-phized the chopstick in these lines: "Busy, busy bamboo chopsticks / First to taste sweet or bitter / It is others who savor the food / And you who wing back and forth in vain."
滋味他人好，爾空來去忙明代詩人程良規曾作詩：「慇勤問竹箸，甘苦爾先嘗，滋味他人好，爾空來去忙。」