At the beginning of the movie, a clear and bright child's voice sings a song: "Spring rain shocks the clear valley sky in spring, summer is full of awns and summer heat is connected.
Autumn is exposed, autumn is cold and frost falls, winter is snowing, and winter is cold."
This solar terms song may seem short, but it incorporates thousands of years of Chinese knowledge about astronomy, calendar and agricultural phenology.
Even if Americans cannot understand Chinese, the short translated subtitles and the meaning of the songs are still like a glass of soft cold water sliding down the throat in summer.
The whole person suddenly woke up.
People who were about to come to the theater to kill time suddenly became energetic and the hairs on their backs stood up.
It seems like something has appeared that I didn't realize but I have been waiting for for a long time.
China on the Bite of the Tongue edited by Yu Sheng is divided into seven episodes: wood, fire, earth, metal, water, universe and universe.
Although the deconstruction and observation angle of Chinese food is different from that of later generations of "China on the Bite of the Tongue".
However, because it is inspired by the original works of later generations, there will always be some shadows of the original works of later generations.
There will be various themes, such as family, struggle and entrepreneurship.
Of course, it's more of a novelty and difference.
Americans have no way of understanding the Chinese's fuzziness of numbers.
Once the number or influencing factors are too large, they will be treated with fuzziness.
In Western culture, a minute is a minute, a thousand people are a thousand people, and quantitative segmentation is the basis of all control.
In the Eastern culture created by the Chinese, a minute can be a moment, a moment, or a blink of an eye.
And a thousand people are either said to be in a hurry, or crowded together, or crucian carp crossing the river, which is always vague.
Similarly, Westerners have no way of understanding that the Chinese can accomplish intensive farming with their experience.
According to the practice of Western culture, if you want to cultivate intensively, you must measure the area of the land, the data of plant growth, how long it takes to absorb water, how long it takes to germinate, how deep the roots are, how high the seedlings are, etc.
When all procedures have a specific and detailed number, intensive farming will be completed.
Although it turns out that this quantitative segmentation method of Western culture is more conducive to the progress of civilization.
However, for the rest of his life, he still feels that a blurred lifestyle may be more suitable for his personal life.
Just like, Westerners will develop a lot of kitchen utensils that are like laboratory supplies, while Chinese people only need a kitchen knife and a chopping board to be a competent chef.
The source of the images in Yu Sheng's "A Bite of China" are all famous chefs from famous restaurants in Shanghai.
His cooking skills have reached a state of perfection.
Control the heat without looking at the watch, just focus on it.
Just look at the color of the food to get it just right.
When carrots are made from sweet potatoes, the sugar produced is extremely sticky and tough.
It is a famous product in Shandong cuisine.
For a plate of shredded sweet potatoes, you can pick a piece at random and pull out long and thin strands.
In order to show off their cooking skills, sometimes the waiter will pull one of the pieces across the stairs to the next floor and let the guests check the slender sugar strands that have not been pulled apart.
During the production process, no measuring tools or thermometers were used, only pots and spoons were used.
And the skills in knife skills made the Americans sitting in the movie theater dumbfounded.
They couldn't figure out how to cut a piece of tofu into filaments that could be threaded with a knife without a machine.
Several old Americans in the cinema were amazed and talked to the people next to them: "Brother, are you sure this is a Chinese food documentary and not an acrobatics documentary?"
"It's probably a food documentary.
However, the Chinese diet is too wide.
I really can't accept the shredded potatoes.
I would like to try it, but I don't know where to buy it."
"The preserved egg is too much.
It's a dark dish.
I will never eat it.
God, they actually eat pig trotters and the scene of the kid eating chicken neck will give me nightmares."
As the saying goes, it is difficult to agree with others.
As a later generation who has traveled through time and space, I naturally know what Americans like to eat among the tens of thousands of Chinese dishes and what Americans cannot accept.
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Of course, these things he intentionally kept in the film.
Yu Sheng knew that whether it is a movie or any other work, the most important thing is to have a topic, not that everyone should not be offended.
As long as there is a topic, the movie will naturally be promoted through the audience's mouth.
By the way, when Americans voted for the most inedible food in the world, preserved eggs were among them.
This once made future generations of Chinese people very unhappy, including the rest of their lives.
With this opportunity, how can I not take the opportunity to disgust these old beauties for the rest of my life and satisfy my own bad taste?
Of course, this kind of lens is only a minority after all, and there are still many beautiful lenses.
After watching the four-hour movie, not a single American in the theater felt sleepy.
The only thing I felt a little unhappy about was that I was drooling a lot and the glutton in my stomach was churning over and over.
At this moment, a few lines of large characters appeared on the movie screen: "Herring Chinese Restaurant is scheduled to open in the United States on May 10, 1942.
Everyone is welcome to visit all Herring Chinese Restaurants, including the Fifth Avenue flagship store.
Don’t worry, this restaurant will never sell preserved eggs or chicken necks.”
Then, the location of seven herring restaurants in the United States was displayed on the movie screen.
These few lines of characters made Americans laugh.
Several Americans who were watching the movie in the cinema became interested in this herring Chinese restaurant after laughing.
Make a note of the restaurant’s location and opening time, and prepare to try it out.
Originally, for Warner Bros., giving "China on the Tip of the Tongue" a chance to be released was just a way to save face for the rest of my life.
For Americans who don't care much about human relationships, this is called emotional investment.
After all, the two films The Great Wall Will Never Fall Down and Upheaval in Heaven once made Warner Bros. a fortune.
If it cooperates with several other giants just because of such a small thing and making it unhappy for the rest of its life, then Warner Brothers will suffer a big loss.
But what Warner Bros. didn’t expect was that A Bite of China became such a hit.
The attendance rate on the first day was less than 20%, but by the fourth day, it had reached 60%.
On the seventh day, it climbed to 80% This attendance rate is simply a miracle during a time when most Americans go to work.
Moreover, this is a documentary without plot suspense: