碗,和我们朝夕相见,和我们生死攸关。碗,关乎生存,关乎生计。可以说,没有什么能重于一只碗。迄今发现的最早的碗,可追溯到新石器时代。可以肯定的是,用碗的历史,远远要早得多。最早的时候,碗可能只是一片荷叶,一截竹筒,一个海螺壳,一块蚌壳。我们小时候玩过家家,那些不能入口的萝卜头、烂菜叶就装在蚌壳里。一代又一代的孩子,隔着悠远的岁月,不 Bowl, and we meet day and night, and our life and death. Bowl, about survival, about livelihood. It can be said that nothing can be more than a bowl. The earliest bowl ever found dates back to the Neolithic. To be sure, the history of using bowls is much earlier. The earliest time, the bowl may be just a lotus leaf, a bamboo, a conch shell, a clam shell. When we were young, we played families, and the radish heads and rotten leaves that could not be imported were packed in clams. Generation after generation of children, across distant years, no