Human activities have led to the gathering of food, and the clutch of food is also mobilizing the gathering of human beings, which Westerners call "fate" and Chinese call it "fate".
"Family banquets are the ultimate in cooking, but they have a meaning that goes far beyond food." This autumn, Henan Satellite TV took the "family banquet" as the warm blueprint of the family, and outlined the sense of oriental banquet and drinking ritual with latitude. The "China Banquet" series of programs uses the presentation form of "interview + cultural interpretation" to link the inheritance and development of history and the current "banquet ceremony", and convey the friendship of China for thousands of years.
"China National Banquet" series of programs co-created and co-produced with Douyin platform, the program will be presented in a seasonal manner, a total of 6 episodes, each 30 minutes, the first program will land on the big screen of Henan Satellite TV at 19:30 on the evening of September 12, and the Douyin platform and the elephant news client will be launched simultaneously.
In the name of home, feast and drink
"Henan Satellite TV, new era, new culture." In recent years, Henan Satellite TV has continued to occupy the C position of the "cultural circle" through endless high-quality programs, an audio-visual feast with the "national tide" as the soul, integrating various expressions such as opera, dance, film and television, and music, telling beautiful and romantic Chinese stories through high-tech dance beauty, so that the historical "ancient rhyme", contemporary "ancient style" and Generation Z are "seamlessly" connected.
As an extension of the "Chinese Festival" brand, series of programs such as Chinese solar terms, Chinese inventions, and Chinese mythology accurately subdivide the field of Chinese culture, and paint Chinese traditional culture in a colorful and dazzling manner. As a member of the "culture" family, the "China National Banquet" series of programs is exported vertically in the field of food, family banquets, culture and customs, and opens a two-way narrative with "talk + film and television interpretation", while the short video platform Douyin has a diverse and rich traditional cultural creators and high-quality content.
The flowers sitting together and the family style etiquette of one person make "Chinese family banquet and happy reunion" have a concrete expression. From ancient times to the present, whether it is the princes of the Son of Heaven or the common people, every special festival or significant day, a banquet will be set up to entertain distinguished guests or close relatives and friends to show respect, and family banquets have become the highest etiquette for Chinese hospitality.
While restoring the ancient and modern family banquet scenes, the "China National Banquet" series also invited Yu Qian, the head of the family banquet, Mei Yi, the cultural guest, and the food guest Dong Keping to talk about food culture and customs, Li Xianshi, Luo Daxue, Wang Hongxiang, Xuanlu, Yu Qinghui, Zhang Xilin, and other star guests, Shirakawa, Meat Face Orange, Han Liang, April, Tang Music Team, Xiaochen Guzheng teacher, Gao Gaodi, Wuxian Hot Monkey, Qianqianer, Song Yifan and other Douyin anchors/talents participated in the interpretation of the plot part of the program.
The family banquet is full of "rituals"
Take a culinary healing journey
Home, from the perspective of the time dimension: "Since the beginning of human existence, the concept of home has been born, and we have developed from generation to generation through social living, kinship, blood relations, etc. Home has an extraordinary meaning in Chinese's mind, and the family banquet represents the highest etiquette for Chinese hospitality.
The distance between people is narrowed and gradually dissolves between bowls and chopsticks. Family banquet is precisely in the name of home, taste the sense of ritual behind life. So some people say that inviting you home for dinner has always been the highest courtesy Chinese treat to friends:
The great poets Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi loved to entertain in their small gardens; Li Yu, a southerner, likes to go into battle with his own hands and make a table of whole fish banquets for guests; After Meng Haoran was warmly received by his old friend, he excitedly wrote the famous work "Passing Old Man's Zhuang" with a pen; After Liang Shiqiu arrived in Beijing, Hu Shi would prepare a slow-cooked Hui dish "Yipin Pot" for him at home every weekend...
Chinese dinner is the biggest sense of ritual. But "eating" is not just eating, behind the banquet carries important nodes of life, behind the table, contains the turn of fate.
Through different scene themes such as wedding banquet, first birthday banquet, adult banquet, deer banquet, military banquet, birthday banquet, etc., the program organizes and displays the wonderful aspects of the food banquet culture, intending to sort out the cultural etiquette and ritual sense of banquet in traditional culture, and link the current to find the inheritance and development of banquet culture.
Chief director Shi Rui said that the original idea for the show came from the curiosity and half-understanding of the children's catching ceremony of the week, "The week grabbing and the first birthday banquet all express the parents' love for their children, which is a primitive instinct."
The original intention of the program was born, and the original intention of the program was to sort out the sense of oriental banquet and drinking ritual related to eating, and wanted to convey to the audience the sense of ritual, oriental aesthetics and oriental wisdom exclusive to the orient. ”
The fireworks of the world are the most soothing to mortals. Go, go home and eat!
The taste of the world is Qinghuan. The long alley of the city, gathering is fireworks, spreading out is the world.
Food and scenery that can resist all the sadness and confusion of the whole world.
Thousands of rooms, only six feet for night sleep; The family is rich, and the solar eclipse is only three meals! ......
When we talk about dishes, we are talking about love, childhood, memories, human beings. For Chinese who like to use food as the medium and banquet as a ritual to link human relationships, a dish and a banquet contain not only taste, but more the emotion and love behind the taste.
Starting from food, "China Banquet", with "banquet" as the core, tells the rituals of banquet and drinking inheritance and the perception of life and years in a relaxed and interesting way, as well as heart-to-heart copywriting about life and destiny, and goes on a gastronomic healing journey with the audience.
From the Great Song to the present moment
A vivid picture of destiny
"Burn incense and order tea, hang pictures and arrange flowers." Among the dynasties, the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that paid great attention to the taste of life, and it can be said that the Song people who loved life brought "life needs a sense of ritual" to the extreme. "Chinese Banquet" deeply explores the Chinese banquet and drinking culture, explores the unique emotions behind the banquet and drink, and uses six Song life story scenes to show the elegant feast of the literati in the Song Dynasty, while also connecting the reflection of life that belongs to the oriental context.
The program begins with the important banquet structure of important stages of a person's life, "No Banquet, No Marriage" and "Wedding Banquet" begins, telling the romantic wedding of the top lyricist Li Qingzhao flowers into a banquet, showing the romantic wedding banquet at the same time, but also praising the courage of young women who have passed through ancient times to "charge for love";
Catching the Week, a ritual held when a child is one year old to predict the future and temperament, originated from the customs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and was widely spread among the people. "The First Birthday Banquet" uses the book fairy Huang Tingjian as the theme character, reproducing the scene of Huang Tingjian grasping the pen of Zhou to predict the future, "May the child be foolish and reckless, and there will be no disaster or trouble to the public secretary." Su Shi's poem is interspersed with it, which aptly understands the wish of parents for the safety of their children.
"Dongpo meat" originated when Su Shi was degraded to Huangzhou, and the local people had a tradition of eating braised pork during the New Year and festivals. For this reason, Su Shi wrote the words "Ode to Pork" to praise this delicacy, "Do not urge him when he is ripe, and he is beautiful when he is full." It has also become a kind word for warm students. In "Adult Banquet", Su Dongpo cooked meat and expressed the concept of education.
In 1057, Zeng Gong brought his brother and brother-in-law with him during the third scientific expedition, and all six members of the family were selected! A six-entry scholar has also become a legend that has been passed down through ancient and modern times, and Zeng Gong's master is the famous Ouyang Xiu.
"Yo deer chirping, the apple of the wild." "Luming Banquet" takes Zeng Gong's sixth middle school invitation to master Ouyang Xiu to the banquet as the background of the story, reproducing the vivid picture of the "Master Xie Banquet".
The chapter of "Military Banquet" unfolds with the story of the famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, the heroine Liang Hongyu, and her husband Han Shizhong's cow wine banquet to reward the three armies; Finally, the "Birthday Banquet" chapter ends with Lu Fangweng Lu You's elderly relatives and friends attending the banquet.
Chief director Shi Rui revealed that the creativity of the six themes of the program comes from the four happy events in life: "Long drought meets Ganlin, other places meet old knowledge, cave house candle night, gold list nomination." ”
"In these Chinese stages of life that are particularly important, family banquets are often used in the form of family banquets to relate family emotions and the way of Chinese banquet and drinking culture inherited for thousands of years. Around a person's life, we try to connect the sense of ritual between Song and today, and also bring the audience a gorgeous audio-visual experience, allowing people to swim in it, float their minds, and catch up with thousands of years. ”
A dining table, banqueting and drinking life, and the fragments of life outlined in the name of home constitute the most vivid reflection of life in the years. Moutai is the general title, the designated brand Orchid flower specially sponsored "China Banquet", waiting for you to go to the banquet on September 12, Douyin search for "China Banquet" to unlock more surprises.
Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhang Nan
Proofreading by Xu Heng