At the beginning of the movie, it is a ballad sung by a clear and bright children's voice - "The spring rain shocks the spring and the valley sky, and the summer is full of mangs and the summer and summer are connected." Autumn dew, autumn frost, winter snow and snow and winter small and big cold. ”

This solar term song may seem short, but it incorporates a lot of knowledge about China's thousands of years of astronomical calendar and agricultural phenology. Even if Americans can't understand Chinese, the short translated subtitles and the rhyme of the song are still like a glass of soft cool water in the summer, sliding down the throat. The whole person suddenly came to his senses. The people who were about to come to the theater to pass the time suddenly felt refreshed, and the hairs on their backs were raised. It's as if something has appeared that I didn't notice but had been waiting for a long time!

The "Bite of China" edited by Yu Sheng is divided into seven episodes: "Wood", "Fire", "Earth", "Gold", "Water", "Universe", and "Universe". Although it is different from the later "A Bite of China" in terms of the deconstruction and observation of Chinese food. However, because it is inspired by the original work of later generations, there are always some shadows of the original work of later generations. There will be various themes, such as family, struggle and entrepreneurship.

Of course, it's more about the novelty of the difference. Americans have no way to understand the numerical ambiguity of the Chinese, and once there are too many numbers or influencing factors, they will be treated as fuzzy. 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 oriental culture founded by the Chinese, a minute can be a moment, a beard, or a blink of an eye. And a thousand people, either talking about the head of the Qian, or saying that they are shoulder to shoulder, or the carp that crosses the river, is always vague.

Similarly, Westerners have no way to understand that Chinese can complete intensive cultivation with 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 absorbs water, how long it takes to germinate, how deep it takes root, how high the seedlings are, and so on. When all the procedures have a specific and detailed number, the intensive cultivation will be completed.

Although it has been proved that this way of quantitative subdivision of Western culture is more conducive to the progress of civilization. However, for the rest of his life, he still felt that the vague lifestyle might be more appropriate for his personal life.

Just as Westerners will develop a lot of kitchen utensils like laboratory supplies, while Chinese only need a kitchen knife and a pair of cutting boards to be competent chefs.

The rest of my life's "A Bite of China", the source of the images, are all famous chefs from major well-known restaurants in Shanghai. Cooking has reached the realm of superbness. Control the heat, no need to look at the watch, keep your heart in mind. You only need to look at the color of the food to get it right.

When pulling sweet potatoes, the sugar produced is extremely viscous and tough. It is a famous product in Lu cuisine. A plate of shredded sweet potatoes, you can pick a piece at random, and then pull out the slender silk. In order to show off their cooking skills, sometimes the guy will pull one of them down the stairs through the stairs! Then ask the guest to check the slender shredded candy that hasn't been pulled off yet!

In the production process, no measuring tools or thermometers were used, and only pots and spoons were used.

And the skill of knife work is even more jaw-dropping to Americans sitting in movie theaters. They couldn't figure out how a piece of tofu could be cut into thin wires that could be threaded through a needle with a single knife without a machine!

Several old beauties in the movie theater were amazed and talked to the people next to them: "Dude, are you sure this is a Chinese food documentary, not an acrobatic documentary?" ”

"It's supposed to be a food documentary! However, the Chinese's recipes are too wide to accept sincerely! I should like to taste that shredded potato, but I don't know where it is sold! ”

"Songhua eggs are too breakthrough to break the bottom line, it's just dark cuisine! I'm never going to eat this! Oh God, they still eat pig's trotters! The footage of that kid eating chicken neck will give me nightmares! ”

As the saying goes, it's hard to reconcile! As the rest of his life that has traveled through later generations, he naturally knows what Americans like to eat and what Americans can't accept among the tens of thousands of dishes in Chinese cuisine. Of course, these things are deliberately kept in the film. The rest of my life knows that whether it is a movie or any other work, the most important thing is to have a topic, not everyone should not be offended! As long as there is a topic, this movie will naturally be promoted through the audience's mouth!

In other words, among the most inedible foods in the world's selection by Americans, there were Songhua eggs...... This once made the Chinese people in later generations, including the rest of their lives, very unhappy. With this opportunity, how can the rest of your life not take the opportunity to disgust this group of old beauties and satisfy your bad taste!

Of course, this kind of lens is a minority after all, and there are still many aesthetic lenses. After four hours of watching the movie, not a single American in the movie theater was sleepy. The only thing that is a little unhappy is that there is a lot of saliva, and the gluttonous worms in the stomach are turning over and over again.

At this moment, a few lines of large characters appeared on the movie screen: "Qingyu Chinese Restaurant is scheduled to open in the United States on May 10, 1942." Everyone is welcome to visit all the Blue Fish Chinese restaurants, including the Fifth Avenue flagship store. Rest assured, our restaurant does not sell Songhua eggs and chicken necks! Then, the movie screen shows the locations of seven herring restaurants in the United States.

These few lines of big words hit the laughter of Americans. A few Americans who watched a movie in a movie theater, after laughing, reached a peak of interest in this herring fish Chinese restaurant. Make a note of the location of the restaurant, and when it opens, and get ready to try it.

Originally, for Warner Bros., giving "A Bite of China" a chance to be released was just a face-saving experience for the rest of his life, and for Americans who don't pay much attention to human relationships, this is called emotional investment. After all, the two films "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" and "Havoc in Heaven" for the rest of his life once made Warner Bros. a lot of money.

If you cooperate with several other giants for the sake of such a thing, you will be unhappy for the rest of your life, then Warner Bros. will lose a lot.

But contrary to Warner Bros. expectations, this "A Bite of China" actually became so popular. On the first day, the attendance rate was less than 20 percent, and on the fourth day, it was already 60 percent. On the seventh day, it had climbed to 80 percent!

This attendance rate is a miracle at a time when most Americans have to work! Moreover, this is still a documentary with no plot suspense!