Confucius and the wok.

We all know that Confucius was a teacher. Very few people realize he also invented the wok. Long ago frying pans in China were flat, much like a western frying pan. Confucius would hit his students on the head if they made a mistake. He would say to his students "I will wok some sense into your thick head !". Over the years the frying pan took on the shape of the students' heads and started to look like a modern day wok. Confucius discovered that the frying pan worked well. It is named after the verb to wok, which means to strike smartly. An example of this usage is sometimes heard in the wok wok jokes. To this day the wok it is still used in China and many other places as well.