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The creative team of A Bite of China

The chief director of "A Bite of China", Chen Xiaoqing, is a food columnist for the Chinese version of "Time Out", "World Food" and other newspapers; the executive director, Ren Changzhen, is the executive director of the documentary "Keeping the Craftsmanship" The director and editor-in-chief of the "Beijing Memory" documentary series is responsible for all shooting scenes and character selection of the film; the general consultants are Hong Kong food columnist Chua Lam and Shanghai food columnist Shen Hongfei. The dubbing narrator of "A Bite of China" is Li Lihong, associate professor of the Department of Directing and Performance, School of Film and Television Arts, Communication University of China.

"A Bite of China" is China's first large-scale food documentary filmed using high-definition equipment. This documentary is positioned as a "high-end food documentary". The first season has only 7 episodes, but it took 13 months to produce. The footage was collected from 70 different places in China. The second season covers a wider range of food areas, including more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, and even Singaporean food. When interviewed, Chen Xiaoqing said that the crew did not reveal her identity as a Chinese crew member of A Bite of Tongue during filming, and said that the director had to taste every dish in person.

Each episode of "A Bite of China" is filmed by the episode director based on the established episode theme and looking for character stories that fit the theme. After the theme of each episode is established, the episode director needs to go through three stages before filming: the first stage is the "copywriting" stage, that is, the episode director reads a lot of books on the topic, investigates, and writes copy; The second stage is the "research" stage to determine what kind of delicacies to film in the episode; the last step is to go to various places to shoot according to a single delicacy, and find suitable characters in the shooting area to express that kind of food and characters who carry the delicacies of this region. Story shoot.