Well, this week, we continue to study how to make a documentary. Of course, we have a class exercise. Unfortunately, we made an short interview, but it cannot open. So I choose to show the most popular documentary in China. That is ‘A bite of China’.

It is a gourmet documentary produced by China’s CCTV. The main contents are the food in china. Through different sides of Chinese delicacy, to show the food to Chinese life rituals, ethics and other aspects of culture; knowledge China characteristics associated with food ingredients and form a series of elements of Chinese delicacy delicate and unique temperament; understand the source of Chinese food culture long.

As part of a discussion on the relationship between Chinese and delicacy food documentary, with food for the window, read by Chinese delicacy can make people, gusto awareness of this ancient oriental country. The documentary will show through the different sides and delicacy related in people’s daily life, and depict the perception Chinese cultural tradition, family values and life attitude and sentimentally attached to homeland. People harvest, preserve, cook and produce good food, and preserve and inherit the taste, memory, dietary customs, cultural patterns and homely feelings that food carries in the process.

‘A bite of China’ succeeds, because the main episode take pieces like the way of editing, the combination between different regions and grafting, about the change in the same kind of food in between the documentary is far apart from each other, with a taste to create a true story. From the aspect of culture is not just eat so simple, from traditional labor to food innovation, the hardships of life and wisdom of generations, Chinese ‘Eating’ inheritance and change has gradually highlighted its unique temperament of Chinese people.