《Chinese Life Aesthetics (Food)》Author: Zhang Jiawei Publisher: Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction · · · · · ·
Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival... How to celebrate traditional Chinese festivals; Vernal Equinox, Beginning of Autumn, Summer Solstice, Beginning of Winter, eat in season and get closer to nature.

Starting from the historical period and food culture that contemporary Chinese are most familiar with, this book introduces the development of Chinese food. It traces the history of food and recreates the food life of the ancients. It also discovers the Chinese people's pursuit of natural life aesthetics from the lives of the ancients.

1. The more you understand history, the better you can pass on culture

From literary novels, we can see the exquisiteness of ancient Chinese food culture;

From the palace food, we can discover the richness of ancient Chinese food culture;

From folk cuisine, we can discover the pursuit of natural food aesthetics;

From the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from literati to the common people, the development and changes of Chinese food culture are reproduced.

2. The author uses delicate brushstrokes, from a humanistic perspective, and through in-depth research on food culture, he writes a footnote for the Chinese food aesthetics.

3. The overall design was personally done by Xiong Qiong, a designer who has won the China's Most Beautiful Book Design Award for many times. The original illustrations by Hou Xian, a popular painter with the warmest atmosphere, make "Chinese Life Aesthetics·Food" extremely elegant.