not the same as Chinese food?
food carving is an art, a plastic arts, and a wonderful flower in China's culinary culture garden. It can turn mediocrity into magic, make a big feast and drink a new look, and add a lot of interest and color to banquets and booths. With the transformation from a well-off society to a well-off society, people love delicious food, and at the same time, they appreciate more and more artworks (food carving artworks) adorned in it.
The art of food carving has also played a certain role in international communication and won unanimous praise from foreign friends. It has also contributed to all kinds of competitions at all levels, greatly improving the value and taste of China's catering.
The importance of food carving
The long and splendid China culture contains rich food culture, among which the exquisite food carving is the most eye-catching, pleasing to the eye and relaxing. China's cooking is called art because it is extensive and profound, and it is admired by people all over the world, especially food carving's art. With the global trend of promoting "green catering", "exquisite catering" and "visual catering", the art of food carving has become a wonderful flower. Many enthusiastic people have promoted the development of food carving, making it more profound. Food carving combines daily diet with carving art, enriching food production and people's catering methods. It gives a brand-new interpretation of "gourmet". The combination of food carving's aesthetic value and practical value has raised the taste of traditional "taste catering" in China to a new level-all-round and multi-angle catering, which we call "three-dimensional catering". People can appreciate its artistic beauty while tasting delicious food. food carving art is no longer a dispensable gadget on the table, but has become the theme of people's attention in daily banquets. On the banquet table of the state banquet, it is even more dominant. It can be said that it plays a role in brightening the theme and making the finishing point in Chinese food, greatly improving the value and taste of China catering.
the purpose and significance of food carving
food carving is an indispensable part of Chinese cooking technology, and a bright pearl in the process of beautifying dishes. It is used to decorate dishes, beautify banquets and set off a good atmosphere. It is a plastic art. Whether it is a state banquet or a folk banquet, proper use can show its artistic vitality and appeal, and people can enjoy both material and artistic enjoyment.
The aesthetic feeling of dishes consists of three aspects: color, shape and quality, which are manifested in color and shape. Superb knife-cutting technology can make the dishes both in form and spirit, and ingenious platter can form a beautiful form. The use of carvings is mainly to assist the beauty of dishes, which, in coordination with dishes, produces aesthetic feeling at a certain time and occasion and has its own independent aesthetic significance. Sculpture forms are as big as people and animals, as small as flowers, plants, fish and insects, with fine production, changeable methods, various varieties, various shapes, lively and intriguing. Mastering this ancient and energetic art is of great significance to systematically master China's cooking techniques, which can improve the understanding of the beauty of dishes, fully understand that "the process of cooking dishes is actually a process of creating beauty", and learn carving skills, which can improve the artistic accomplishment of chefs, draw materials from paintings and sculptures, enrich the expression techniques, and then apply them to the practice of hot dishes and cold dishes, which will improve the cooking skills in an all-round way.
Mastering food carving's skills is of great significance for promoting the essence of Chinese national food culture. China's cooking has a far-reaching impact on the world's food. As we all know, food carving skills are relatively weak. Today, after China's entry into WTO, people can further deepen their understanding of China's cooking through food carving skills. The gold medal winners in the Fifth National Cooking Competition held not long ago, those lifelike sculptures play a decisive role, and many viewers are beautifully presented. In the reception of the world summit, the guests also took away the works of the departments to continue to appreciate after the banquet. It can be seen how important the creation of the beauty of dishes has on the psychology of guests, which determines their appetite and eating psychology, and this psychology determines their eating behavior, and then comes down to the overall understanding and evaluation of China's food culture.
the role of food carving in Chinese food
food carving is different from other carvings such as wood carving, jade carving, tooth carving, etc. It is not just a handicraft, nor is it isolated for people to watch, but it is combined with dishes to make people eat while watching. The application of carvings is various. The placement of carvings can reveal the theme and set off a good banquet atmosphere, and its role in food activities is as follows:
A ornament < Food carving with beautiful flowers, animals, scenery and utensils are often used. For example, the mountain in the "natural scenery" of cold dishes is made of raw materials such as ginger, and another example is the ingenious combination of lion carving and dried scallops with hydrangea on the plate, which forms a perfect picture of lions playing with balls, thus subliming the artistic conception of dishes, improving the style of dishes and making them rise to a delicious art.
bIt is directly used in dish modeling to supplement
Some fancy cold cuts and fancy hot dishes, such as "Dragon and Phoenix", "Two Dragons Playing with Beads", "Phoenix Scallop" and "Peacock Fish", etc., will be difficult to make "dragon" head, "phoenix" head and "peacock" head, and the whole dish will lose its integrity without using food carving. Therefore, the supplementary role of food carving in dishes can not be ignored. Reasonable use can make dishes more vivid and colorful. Generally speaking, food carving is essential for dishes that need to be supplemented, and less will destroy the image of dishes, while food carving is not necessary for dishes that need to be decorated, which can make dishes icing on the cake and more vivid. However, if not used, dishes still have their own forms and will not affect their integrity.
C instead of fancy cold dishes for vegetable viewing
Carvings are used for vegetable viewing, which not only beautify the seating surface, but also express the respect for the guests and the grand and noble reception specifications. Besides, carvings often appear in large-scale group carvings that can reflect the theme. For example, the "double happiness and concentric" carvings commonly used at wedding banquets are composed of heart-shaped double happiness patterns and affectionate patterns of a pair of mandarin ducks and hibiscus, symbolizing that the newlyweds have a happy life and are better than Qi Fei for a hundred years. In ancient times, the dragon symbolized men, and the phoenix symbolized women. The dragon was majestic and bold, and the phoenix was light and beautiful, dancing with the dragon and the phoenix, expressing people's praise and expectation for a happy married life.
Another example is a birthday party, in which the themes of children, young people and old people are different. For example, the theme of "21th birthday" can be called "black dragon calling children" and "Dapeng spreading its wings", which is also called "Wang Zi Cheng Long", and the old dragon in the clouds is carved to call the little dragon in the sea, symbolizing the father's hope that his son will become useful as soon as possible and inherit his father's career. When the elderly celebrate their seventieth birthday, they can "celebrate happiness", and the fairy boy holds the Pisces in his hand and the gold ingot on his back, which symbolizes auspiciousness, celebration, happiness and longevity; State banquets often use some elegant carvings that can reflect national characteristics, such as "panda playing with bamboo" and "peacock welcoming guests". Friends parties often use "happy flower baskets" and "three friends who are cold in the old age" and so on.
D table top decoration for banquets or competitions is used as a stand
For festivals such as Spring Festival and Christmas, large-scale foam or flower mud is used to carve decorations to decorate the table top and add festive atmosphere. During the competition, the decorative countertops with carved products make people feel refreshing and have a bright effect at the moment, such as the famous scenic spots in Xuzhou, Yunlong Mountain and yunlong lake, which are composed of flower mud in xuzhou institute of technology's "See Danfengqi Yunlong" in the fifth national cooking competition, and the phoenix carved with large fruits and vegetables lingers in Yunlong Mountain and yunlong lake Mountain, which not only makes the whole countertops have a dynamic beauty, but also adds vivid colors to the countertops, which can also reflect the beauty of Xuzhou scenery. It has played a positive role in Xuzhou's external publicity, so food carving is not only a player's skill in the competition, but also reflects his comprehensive quality and feelings for the people in his hometown.
E is used to decorate large-scale countertops
This is a popular way to use carvings in recent years, which is widely used by some star-rated hotels, such as the buffet breakfast reception at the hotel booth, the company's opening, business opening, reception, various get-togethers, various food festivals, food exhibitions, etc., and most of the carvings have special meanings, such as foam carvings, powdered sugar carvings, butter carvings, sand blasting carvings, etc. If next year's Spring Festival is the Year of the Rooster, the Spring Festival reception can be "golden rooster crows spring" and "prosperity". Christmas can be "Santa Claus" and "Christmas angel"; The Mid-Autumn Festival uses "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" and so on. Carving different works according to different themes can make diners relaxed and full of interest.
The application of carvings should be closely related to the theme of the banquet, carefully conceived, and designed with elegant artistic conception, conforming to nature and complementing the theme of the banquet, which can add icing on the cake and highlight the natural beauty. Whether it is antique, noble and elegant, or novel and unique, light and flexible style, the carving should be consistent with the theme of specific food activities, environmental atmosphere, specific dish modeling and other styles. How to decorate sculptures into basic principles and rich sculpting arts in specific food activities is the most important. Only by constantly participating in carving practice and summing up can carving skills become more and more perfect and reach a higher technical level and artistic realm.
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