Landmark Festival Hundred Cities Banquet: Taste the Chinese Soul

When food reporter Lin Zhiwei was sorting through her grandfather's old belongings, she accidentally discovered the remaining manuscript of the Republic of China's "Landmark Banquets in One Hundred Cities" - the annotation on the title page "Yue Mou, a descendant of Yanzhou, fried sugar by Tiangong", which set her on a journey of discovery across 36 cities. From the braised vegetables with copper spoons at Yanzhou Water Transport Terminal, to the mandarin fish carved with water chestnuts in the Sufu Garden; from the yak meatballs that need to be smashed fifty times under the snow-capped mountains of Tibetan Plains, to the red cabbage soup with Russian style in Harbin, she met various craftsmen: Lao Yu, who smashed the shovel for hand-fried sugar; Mu Xiaotang, who dares to make colorful shaomai, and Yue Xingci, a post-2000 generation who uses VR to convey his skills... They stick to the obsession of "the soul remains unchanged, the shape can be new", and amid the anxiety of "old skills will be lost" and the attempt of "new expressions to attract attention", they keep the landmark banquet alive in the present. As the National Hundred Cities Landmark Banquet kicked off, the flavors of 36 cities were assembled into a 100-meter-long table, and the blank spaces of the remaining manuscripts were filled with craftsman stories. In the end, Lin Zhiwei wrote on the last page: "The soul of China is not in the pile of old papers, but in the taste of every inheritance, and in the palm of every soul-keeper." This is a cultural inheritance connected by taste, and it is also a song of family and country feelings hidden in the smoke of fireworks.