"Intangible cultural heritage inherits into thousands of families, live a healthy life." June 13 is the 2020 "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day". The "Intangible Cultural Heritage Day" is established every year to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and create a good atmosphere for intangible cultural heritage protection. Let more people pay attention to and understand the colorful intangible cultural heritage in life, inspire the cultural confidence and national pride of the whole people, and create a strong atmosphere of actively participating in the practice of intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance.
"Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance, Healthy Life"
This year's Heritage Day event theme is "Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance, Healthy Life". The activities held in various places have their own characteristics. Intangible cultural heritage resources are sorted out from five aspects: traditional medicine, traditional sports, intangible cultural heritage food, intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and traditional performing arts, and present the current achievements in intangible cultural heritage inheritance and protection.
Learning from the past and knowing the present. Behind the cultural heritage is the historical development context and highlighting the infinite charm of civilization. Let more people understand intangible cultural heritage, understand intangible cultural heritage, cherish intangible cultural heritage, promote the concept of intangible cultural heritage protection of "seeing people, things, and life" to deeply root in the hearts of the people, and demonstrate the efforts and achievements made by the whole society to protect, inherit, promote, record, and disseminate intangible cultural heritage and the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Traditional diet contains the Chinese nation's life wisdom and health philosophy
Intangible cultural heritage contains rich cultural treasures and has become a hot spot for consumption by big IP and the people. Many familiar time-honored brands such as Daoxiangcun, Wufangzhai, Quanjude, Goubuli, Tongrentang, Darentang, Chen Liji, Neiliansheng, Ruifengxiang, Wanglaoji, Moutai, Dong'e Ejiao, Longkou Fans, Zhoucun Seed Bread, Kongfu Cuisine Cooking Techniques, Taishan Fengchan Imperial Banquet, etc., have one or even a number of provincial and national intangible cultural heritage representative projects as support.
Heritage Day, the documentary "Zhong Changquan and Taishan Fengshan Imperial Seed" (temporary name) walked into Taishan Imperial Seed Building and interviewed the inheritor of Shandong Province's intangible cultural heritage (Taishan Fengshan Imperial Seed), the 80-year-old man, Mr. Zhong Changquan, as well as influential cultural scholars in Tai'an, and people in food and catering.
One person, a mountain, a lifelong love, a table of feast. As the fourth generation inheritor of Fengshan Imperial Festival in Taishan, Zhong Changquan opened the Imperial Festival Restaurant in 2003, becoming the earliest R&D base to protect and inherit Fengshan Imperial Festival in Taishan. Over the past 40 years, he has explored, sorted and selected and written 1,218 imperial dishes, 48 banquet menus, and created and published more than 10 Fengchan Imperial Banquet Series, with more than 4 million words. In 2011, he was named "Top Ten People Touching Tai'an".
Over the years, Taishan Fengshan Imperial Chef has been successfully selected into the provincial intangible cultural heritage list in 2016 through the excavation, sorting and summary of Zhong Changquan and his team, and the promotion of all sectors of society and government departments. At present, the provincial competent department has recommended the project to the national competent department and applied for the national intangible cultural heritage.
Taishan Imperial Food dishes focus on green ecology and nutritional science
Focusing on the characteristics of Taishan Fengshan Imperial Food Health and Care, Mr. Zhong introduced that Taishan Imperial Food dishes are the crystallization of wisdom exchanges and cooperation between imperial chefs in the palace and local chefs in history. Emperors and monarchs of all dynasties went to Mount Tai for sacrifice. In addition to pursuing peace and peace in the country, they also prayed to God to bless them to prolong their lives and live forever. So after they came to Tai'an, they especially hoped to get and enjoy wild game, rare ingredients, and especially dishes with the same origin of medicine and food.
Mount Tai Fengshan Imperial Banquet can also be said to be a health banquet for emperors of all dynasties. The imperial chef cooks the emperor carefully and carefully, with exquisite ingredients and proper cooking, rich techniques, a wide variety of dishes, moderate taste, both meat and vegetables, and balanced and comprehensive nutrition. Therefore, the Imperial Banquet absorbed the secret recipes for the health of the imperial courts and foods for strengthening the body through the dynasties, absorbed the secret recipes for Taoist and Buddhist health in Mount Tai, and many secret recipes for the folk health. It uses more than 500 ingredients and Chinese herbal medicines that naturally grow in Mount Tai to form a feast for all ages, reflecting the highest standards of Chinese food culture.
Zhong Lao emphasized that the style of the dishes in the Fengshan Imperial Banquet in Taishan is elegant, refreshing and fresh, which is very in line with the green and healthy needs of modern people. On Earth, Shandong is a good place, and Mount Tai is the best place in Shandong.The four seasons are distinct and the weather is good. The crops, vegetables, fish, meat, poultry and other ingredients grown in this environment are of high quality, nutritious and high vitamin content. Modern people hope to live a healthy and long life, and enjoy the Taishan Fengshan Imperial Banquet dishes made by the essence of mountains and rivers, which are baptized by time, can meet your high-quality life needs.
Experience the beauty of intangible cultural heritage, enjoy cultural nourishment, and draw cultural strength
Mr. Zhong Changquan's successor, Ms. Gao Yanrui, chairman of Taishan Fengchan Yuyan Catering Co., Ltd., said that starting from the intangible cultural heritage elements around you, let intangible cultural heritage be better integrated into contemporary life, and more people pay attention to and consume intangible cultural heritage, which not only enjoys the finished products of intangible cultural heritage, but also respects and appreciates the wisdom and skills of the inheritors.
After this epidemic, the public pursues personalized, diversified and customized consumption services and likes a healthier lifestyle. These are all intangible cultural heritage. It can be seen, heard, worn, available, and edible, and exists in every aspect of daily life. At the same time, promoting intangible cultural heritage to better integrate into contemporary life can allow people to participate in intangible cultural heritage protection and share the results of intangible cultural heritage protection in the intangible cultural heritage application experience.
Ms. Gao is full of respect for Mr. Zhong’s efforts and achievements in the excavation and sorting of imperial meals in Mount Tai forty years, and feels a great responsibility. She believes that the representative inheritor is an important carrier and transmitter of intangible cultural heritage and a treasure of the country. The skills, experience and cultural memory carried by the inheritor are the core content and source of motivation for the protection and development of intangible cultural heritage. Let modern people, especially young people, understand intangible cultural heritage, fall in love with intangible cultural heritage, and become advocates of intangible cultural heritage inheritance. This is the only way to inherit intangible cultural heritage, and we have the obligation to shoulder this responsibility.
"In the old days, the swallows in front of the Wang Xie Hall flew into the homes of ordinary people." Speaking of Shandong's intangible cultural heritage theme restaurant - Taishan Imperial Restaurant, as well as the palace imperial dishes inherited by craftsmanship, Ms. Gao introduced that Taishan Imperial Restaurant has become a popular intangible cultural heritage theme restaurant today. In the past, the imperial court meals carefully prepared for emperors and nobles can be eaten here. In the Feng Shui treasure land of Yushen Tower, there are many unique and historical and cultural heritage of the imperial food. Such as Cixi's cherry meat, palace roast duck, Taishan pomegranate tofu, crispy dates, imperial prawns, papaya snow ears, etc....
