Author: Sun Jun
"Special foods from all over China are the essence of diet that has been tempered by time. Its taste combination and raw material combination contain genius creativity and is the wealth of everyone." During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox, the reporter recommended a set of beautiful and delicious picture books - "This is the taste of Chinese! 》To readers.
This picture book telling traditional Chinese food was created by Mou Aili, associate professor at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and six new illustrators born in the 1990s. It integrates food into the story well and brings children a traditional and unique taste.
"This is the taste of Chinese! 》 by Mou Aili Sky Tower Studio Painting CITIC Publishing House
Six kinds of delicacies, six stories
"This is the taste of Chinese! 》There are six picture books, which talk about six kinds of foods from all over the country - spring cakes, persimmon cakes, eight-treasure porridge, moon cakes, glutinous rice, and Yangzhou fried rice. Some of them are suitable for family reunion during festivals and festivals, such as spring cakes that are often eaten in the beginning of spring in the north, glutinous rice cakes in the south, and moon cakes that are necessary for Mid-Autumn Festival.
Every food has an interesting story. For example, "Change! Yangzhou Fried Rice is a book about the story of Panda Chef making “the world’s number one” egg fried rice. Panda Chef has realized a truth: the world is so big, with thousands of faces, and everyone has different preferences. The best chef is not to show off his cooking skills, but to understand the needs of each guest and make dishes that suit their tastes the most. So he began to tailor-made fried rice for customers, adding shrimp, ham, carrots, green beans, corn and other ingredients, or adding nothing. The changes are all based on the tastes of the customers. Later, people called this egg fried rice that "can be changed or unchanging" Yangzhou fried rice.
Through food, "This is the taste of Chinese! 》 shows children magnificent fantasies, emotional stories and life philosophy.
The style of paintings is diverse, which enhances the aesthetic ability of children
"This is the taste of Chinese! 》The six painters of 》 are all new illustrators born in the 1990s and are from a professional class at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. They hope to use their brushes to draw an international Chinese flavor. Their painting styles are diverse, including watercolor, collage, rubbing, etc., with bright colors, giving children a diverse visual enjoyment. It can be said that a set of picture books is a comprehensive aesthetic class.
For example, "The Eight Treasure Porridge Falls from the Sky" is a collage style. The painter Jing Wenxuan applies the concept of costume design to the picture books. The villagers live in the place where they are cut out with linen and pasted; "The General who makes glutinous rice cake" is a creative rubbing style, and the texture effect in the book is rubbed with paper towels, and children can also try it; "The Thief Spring Cake Shop" is a light watercolor style, and "Happy Persimmon Cake" uses digital paintings with a cinematic texture.
Mou Aili said: "Creating every picture book is to cook the diet of the spiritual world for children. Picture books that allow children to be influenced by beauty from an early age will be established with their aesthetic power, expression and confidence."
Let the family taste the taste of happiness
Stay at home and taste delicious food and make delicious food with your family, which will become a sweet and beautiful memory when your children grow up. "This is the taste of Chinese! Each food in 》 has detailed production steps. After reading the book, children and parents can move from the study to the kitchen to make delicious food together to add a fun to family reunion.
Mou Aili said that before becoming a mother, she never really cared about food. At that time, she was busy with teaching and scientific research, and was often so busy that she didn't even have to eat breakfast. After becoming a mother, diet became something she had to care about every day in her life. She began to take every meal seriously. Since then, food has become the most link between her and her children every day.
Mou Aili saw so many interesting and informative places in Chinese food, so she began to write one story about food after another. During the creative talk, she said: "I hope this set of small books about Chinese flavor can allow children and mothers to taste the taste of happiness. There is a big world in the small food and small picture books." (Sun Jun)
Source: Guangzhou Daily
