1. Poems about Guizhou Food Poems about Guizhou Food 1. Asking for a commentary on Guizhou Food in A Bite of China The seventh episode of Our Fields talks about Guizhou food, narration: The Chinese say: Eat the mountains when you rely on the mountains, and eat the sea when you rely on the sea.
This is not only an adaptation to local conditions, but also a Chinese way of survival that conforms to nature.
From ancient times to the present, this farming nation has carefully used every inch of the land under its feet. The activities of obtaining food and extraordinary wisdom are everywhere.
Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, is a mountainous area where the Dong, Miao and Zhuang people live together. People here have been eating glutinous rice as their staple food since ancient times, and nearly a hundred kinds of primitive glutinous rice are grown in the alpine terraces.
Away from the hustle and bustle of modern civilization, the scattered villages are like isolated islands, hidden deep in the mountains.
October is the season when glutinous rice matures. Xiayao Village, where the Zhuang people live, is welcoming a festival specially designed for the rice harvest - the New Rice Festival.
But glutinous rice is not the only harvest for the villagers. There are other secrets hidden in the paddy fields.
Carps and ducks can be raised in rice fields at the same time. This ancient system of rice-fish-duck cooperation has been listed as a globally important agricultural cultural heritage.
Zhangzi Island is an island less than 15 square kilometers in the northern Yellow Sea, but it is rich because of the products in the sea.
Under the blue waves, there lives a prosperous group.
Invertebrates such as sea cucumbers, abalone, and sea urchins, which are regarded as treasures in the sea by the Chinese, happen to account for the majority of them.
Pure waters and active ocean currents contribute to their extraordinary qualities.
Three years ago, hundreds of millions of artificially cultivated sea cucumber seedlings were sown in these waters. They grew up in exactly the same way as their wild counterparts.
This is a joint effort between humans and nature to realize the ideal of farming, sea husbandry, and fishing in an ecological way.
45-year-old diver Wang Houxi is preparing to enter the water for the last time in his career.
River crab, scientific name is Chinese mitten crab.
During the breeding season, they migrate in groups from the tributaries and lakes where they live to the Yangtze River estuary.
Due to changes in the ecological environment, wild Chinese mitten crabs are very rare today.
Xiaotai is a generation of artificial breeding.
All the water in the river pond is drawn from Taihu Lake. Xiaotai's food is aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps in the lake. Compared with similar animals that eat feed, it has a longer growth period and a stronger body.
In China today, hairy crabs have become one of the most profitable farming projects.
Xinghua Water Town, Jiangsu Province, located at the northern end of the Yangtze River Delta, seems like a land forgotten by time.
At noon in midsummer, Xia Juntai and Wang Yuanfeng rowed their boat into the lake to water a tall vegetable that loves water.
The unique land under their feet is called Duotian.
Among all kinds of green vegetables, the tall taro is the absolute majority.
The fields surrounded by water can satisfy this species' biggest hobby: drinking water.
Every day, Lao Xia has to water the taro four times, and each watering takes an hour to ensure the taro's water needs.
In China's most economically active region, Xia Juntai, whose ancestral home is in rural Xinghua, may be the last person in his family to engage in farming.
But this does not prevent him from enjoying everything here, including the natural fields, taro, and the home of he and his wife.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world.
The Himalayas lie across the south. To the north, the Brahmaputra River flows from the snow-capped mountains to the valley floor in southern Tibet, opening up the richest agricultural area in Tibet - Shigatse.
Outside the village, the highland barley planted by people is about to mature.
In the cold polar regions, people need to supplement their life energy with diet.
At altitudes above 4,000 meters, natural gifts are not abundant. Among the limited foods, highland barley has become the staple food that people rely on most.
The Wangguo Festival is held before the highland barley matures and is the most grand festival of the year.
On the altar, the handprints covered with highland barley powder are endowed with powerful spiritual power.
Barley flour was thrown into the air.
People believe that the voice of prayer can reach straight to the sky.
Beijing, a prosperous international city.
Numerous high-rise buildings surround the ancient Forbidden City, as well as old streets and alleys of different temperaments - hutongs.
Guichun, who lives in a hutong, has an extraordinary ideal: to have his own vegetable garden.
So Guichun moved his ideals to the roof.
The seeds are sleeping quietly underground. In spring in Beijing, there is no greenery at all. The fish pond on the roof still has the remaining ice from last winter.
When summer arrives, Guichun's roof completely changes its appearance.
While people in the city flock to the vegetable market to bring home vegetables from afar, Guichun can be like a comfortable farmer, using local materials and becoming self-sufficient.
In the city, stretches of rooftops seem like abandoned spaces, lifeless.
But the rooftop vegetable garden in Guichun is a refreshing world.
The green roof, which is less than 100 square meters, uses every blade to purify the urban air.
They are Guichun's gift to this city.
Chinese people from different regions use their own wisdom to utilize nature appropriately and skillfully to obtain simple and delicious food.