At the end of Qing Dynasty, Niu Changyuan, the chef of Henan Changyuan, became a famous royal chef in the palace. The nine princes loved him very much. Many years later, his son went to Beijing to study cooking, and he was congenial to Wang Fu. Niu Changyuan strongly opposed it, and his father turned against him. In a rage, my son left Niu Changyuan, took Zhang Ziqiang, the famous chef of Taiping Building, as his teacher and challenged him with his father. Niu Changyuan found in the cooking competition with Zhang that Zhang's cooking and Niu's family can be integrated in many places. He found Zhang Ziqiang, but he was rejected. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Ziqiang was imprisoned because he would rather die than cook for the Japanese. Before his execution, he secretly found someone to give Niu Changyuan the recipe of the Zhang family. At this time, Niu Changyuan lived in seclusion in Changyuan, devoted himself to studying cooking skills, and finally completed the Dachangyuan Recipe, which was handed down to later generations.

The TV series "Kitchen King", also known as "Dachangyuan", takes the long-term life experience of chef Niu in Changyuan as the main line and takes Changyuan, the hometown of chefs, as the main scene. Through the legendary life experience and fate of the protagonist in the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the founding of New China, and through the ups and downs and gripping story, it reflects the broad feelings of the people of the Central Plains, such as hard work, courage to forge ahead, generosity, kindness, loyalty and patriotism. This is a book that appeals to both refined and popular tastes and integrates ideological and artistic qualities.