Chopsticks have also been involved in some farcical moments of history, such as when a corrupt emperor of the Five Dynasties period thought of a new use for them--uncertain whom to choose as his chief minister, he wrote some ministers 'names on pieces of paper, put them in a vase, and whichever he picked out with a pair of chopsticks was to be his chief minister.
不過，筷子也介入歷史中的部分荒謬劇。像五代時的廢帝為它想出的新用途﹘ ﹘這個皇帝不知要選那個人當宰相，便把一些大臣的名字寫在紙條上，放進一個琉璃瓶中，再用筷子夾取，誰被夾中便拜為宰相。