Fried silkworm chrysalis, roast pig eyes, sheep guns and sheep cannons, and all kinds of dark ingredients that most viewers have never heard of have become the protagonists of the second episode of "A String of Life".

Viewers who originally thought it was just a documentary about the food of the meal have a new understanding of it.

Of course, there are always brave people who are willing to try, and soon, "tasting reports" of the foods shown in the second episode appeared on the Internet.

The live broadcast of pictures and texts is already considered simple, and many eating broadcasts on the first sound video network have visited the people and started a bold tasting.

[The young man angrily ordered twenty skewers of roast pig eyes, accompanied by pig whips, and ate very deliciously]

[The life of a silkworm should be spent like this, the king of big stomachs tries the roasted silkworm set]

【Take you into the most real sea fresh roast】

【The chef teaches you the most authentic way to roast lamb guns】

[This bamboo rat was hungry watching "A String of Life", and the guy grilled it into a delicious skewer to relieve loneliness]

and other videos have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, which has made the life food area popular again.

This kind of hunting and editing has obviously received the infection of the Internet style, and traditional documentaries will not shoot this effect, and the dark ingredients not only did not dissuade them, but made everyone more interested in this documentary.

By the time the third episode aired, the documentary had been watched by more than a million people online at the same time, and the vegetarian dishes in the third episode were like the spice of eating barbecue, giving viewers who had experienced the baptism of dark ingredients in the second episode a respite, which is the pun of the subtitle "Let's have some vegetarian dishes".

Jing Ping, the documentary director of national television, Zhou Xiao, feels that his daughter's appearance is a little strange recently.

He is a northerner, but he came to Jingping in college, and after graduation, he entered the national television station to work, and worked for decades, and his daughter grew up in Jingping from a young age, and never returned to his hometown a few times.

Two days ago, my daughter, who had just finished the college entrance examination and was enjoying her summer vacation, suddenly asked mysteriously after eating.

"Dad, have you ever eaten roasted silkworm chrysalis?"

The daughter's eyes widened, rather curious.

"Roasted silkworm chrysalis? Why do you ask this? ”

Zhou Xiao asked rhetorically, he remembered that when he was a child, he caught it in the countryside, it was crispy and delicious, but he never ate it again after studying, as for the silkworm chrysalis, he remembered that there was such a tradition in his hometown, but he had not tasted it.

"I've heard it's a specialty barbecue in our Northeast."

The daughter explained that her attitude was very sincere.

"I don't know if it's special or not, but we do have similar food in our hometown, that is, the silkworms that have not broken cocoons are skewered and roasted, and many old people like to eat it, but your father is timid and doesn't dare to eat it."

Zhou Xiao is usually busy with work and rarely has time to accompany his daughter, and these few days coincided with the completion of the documentary he was responsible for shooting before, so he didn't have to go back and forth for a few days, so he patiently explained the topic mentioned by his daughter.

"What about roasting moths directly, and roasting green silkworms?"

The daughter took advantage of the victory to chase and continued to ask.

"Roasted moths? Can this also be eaten? The green silkworm is the silkworm, that is, it eats the leaves of the oak tree, the green is so big, someone in the hometown has raised it before, this can still be eaten? ”

Zhou Xiao felt incredible, and then he was a little puzzled, where did her daughter, who usually reads obediently, see such strange things?

"I've heard that it's especially delicious when grilled."

The daughter said quite firmly.

"Where did you hear that, I don't even know about these things."

Zhou Xiao then traced back to the source and turned his attention from the TV to his daughter.

"I read what the documentary says."

"Documentary?"

Zhou Xiao came to the spirit, he is making documentaries, I haven't seen any documentaries in my life, I don't remember any documentaries that say roasted moths or something?

"That's right, Dad, you usually shoot documentaries in Taiwan, do you have to do those things yourself, such as shooting and tasting food?"

The daughter asked.

"We must be very rigorous, after all, documentaries are not TV series, we have to seek truth from facts, that's why your dad is running all over the country."

Zhou Xiao explained, and continued to ask.

"Which documentary did you just talk about with roasted moths?"

"A String of Life" is now popular on the Internet."

The daughter replied as a matter of course.

"A String of Life"? Which TV station's? How did I not know there was also this documentary? ”

Zhou Xiao felt that he had never heard of this film, and suddenly became interested.

You must know that Zhou Xiao used to worry about letting her daughter watch less TV series and animation, and more documentaries and other knowledge-enhancing programs, but her daughter always felt that those documentaries were too serious, too dull, and lacking interest.

Now there is a documentary that allows his daughter to ask him in turn, although it seems a little strange to roast moths and roast silkworm pupae or something, but after all, he has done what Zhou Xiao can't do, so he is naturally very concerned.

"Dad, this documentary is not broadcast on TV stations, it is broadcast on the Internet, as far as the Chuyin Video Network I usually watch, you usually don't pay much attention to things on the Internet, you must not know."

The daughter said truthfully.

"Hatsune Video Network?"

Zhou Xiao only knew that this was a website specializing in animation, and his department didn't have much contact with the Internet, but he heard other colleagues occasionally mention it.

"Show me?"

Hearing Zhou Xiao's words, her daughter's eyes suddenly lit up, and she came out of the room with a tablet and said.

"Dad, this documentary has three episodes now, do you want to start from the beginning?"

"Let's start from the beginning."

Zhou Xiao asked her daughter to press the play button, and the father and daughter watched it.

Not long after watching it, Zhou Xiao's heart swelled with waves.

From a professional point of view, this documentary has many flaws in the filming techniques and camera movements, but it is unique in its creativity.

There was a proposal similar to a food documentary in the front desk, but there was a dispute over what to film, some people wanted to shoot the four major cuisines, and some people wanted to start with the city, which finally led to the whole topic becoming very empty, and no one could convince anyone, plus everyone did not have a clear grasp of the scientific education significance of filming food, and finally it was not done.

Now Zhou Xiao usually shoots some historical and nature documentaries, as well as about architecture and intangible cultural heritage, which are high-end and atmospheric, but obviously not very close to the people.

But this "A String of Life" seems to be about barbecue, but in fact it is filming life, through barbecue, the most popular diet, it reflects the daily life of the people in the market behind it, which conveys some cultural beliefs, and is a real allegorical scene.

Watching the documentary, Zhou Xiao suddenly had an inspiration.

Since human feelings and culture can be reflected through barbecue, is there a similar story behind other foods, which can show the life and pursuit of Chinese people through food?

Historical documentary, by photographing cultural relics, telling the rise and fall of history to show the longevity of Chinese civilization, nature documentary, by photographing animals, showing the reproduction of species to convey the idea of harmony between man and nature.

So can the documentary of food also convey the humanistic story behind the food and show the historical style of China?

The more Zhou Xiao thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but stand up.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?"

The daughter was still immersed in the delicious taste of the barbecue, although she had seen it once, she was still drooling greedily, and she was a little confused when she saw her father suddenly stand up.

"Where is the website where this documentary was made?"

Zhou Xiao asked, he felt that he was going on a business trip.