Food carving is a kind of art, is a kind of plastic art, is a branch of our culinary culture in the garden, it can make the mediocre for the magic, so that the big feasts and drinks a new look, for the feast and booths add a lot of fun and color, with the transformation of the subsistence-oriented society to a well-off society, people are fond of the delicious at the same time, on the embellishments of which the works of art (food carving works of art) are also more and more appreciated.
Food carving artwork is also becoming more and more appreciated.
Food carving art in international exchanges also played a role in foreign friends by the unanimous praise, at all levels and types of competitions, it also contributed, it greatly improves the value of China's food and beverage and taste.
The importance of food carving
In the long and splendid Chinese culture contains a rich food culture, especially in the exquisite food carving is the most striking, so that people enjoy the eye, mind and soul. Chinese culinary arts known as art, because it is profound, it is the global community of people to enjoy the road to promote, and food carving art, especially in the extreme perfect play. With the global promotion of "green food and drink", "exquisite food and drink", "visual food and drink" trend, food carving art has become a wonder. Many enthusiasts have promoted the development of food carving, making its significance more far-reaching. Food carving combines daily food with carving art, enriching the production of food and people's dining style. It is a new interpretation of "food", the aesthetic value of food carving and practical value combined, so that the traditional Chinese "taste dining" taste rose to a new level - All-round, multi-angle catering we call "three-dimensional catering", people in the taste of delicious at the same time, you can appreciate the beauty of its art, food carving art is no longer dispensable accessories on the table, has become the subject of people's attention, in the daily feast it frequently appear, in the national banquet feast! Table it is the leading style, it can be said that it has played a brightening theme in the Chinese cuisine, the role of the eye of the dragon, greatly improving the value and taste of Chinese catering.
Purpose and significance of food carving
Food carving is an important and indispensable part of our country's culinary technology, is a bright pearl in the process of beautification of dishes, it is used to embellish the dishes, beautify the banquet, and bring out a good atmosphere, is a kind of modeling art, no matter whether it is a national banquet or folk banquets, the proper use of the art of displaying its vitality and infectious, people can get the material enjoyment at the same time, but also can be used in a variety of ways. Get material enjoyment at the same time, can also get the enjoyment of art.
The beauty of the dishes in the vegetation including color, shape, quality of the three aspects of its expression is the color and shape, superb knife skills can make the dishes shape shape and God, clever platter can constitute the form of beauty, and the use of carvings is mainly to assist the beauty of the dishes, and the dishes with the dishes, in a certain period of time, occasions to produce a sense of beauty and its own and has an independent aesthetic significance. Carving modeling form performance as large as characters and animals, as small as flowers, plants, fish and insects, the production of fine, variable methods, a variety of varieties, modeling, vivid and lively, intriguing. Master this ancient and vibrant skills, the systematic mastery of Chinese culinary technology is of great significance, can improve the awareness of the beauty of the dish modeling, a full understanding of "the process of cooking dishes is actually a process of creating beauty," this dietary aesthetics argument, learning carving skills, can improve the chef's artistic cultivation, can learn from painting, sculpture, sculpture. Can draw material from painting, sculpture, rich in expression, and then applied to hot dishes cold dishes plated in practice, to improve the overall culinary skills is very useful.
Mastery of food carving skills, to publicize and promote the essence of the Chinese national food culture, has an important significance, Chinese cooking has a far-reaching impact on the world's food, as we all know, food carving skills are relatively weak in the accession to the WTO today, through the food carving skills can further deepen people's understanding of Chinese cooking, the fifth national culinary competitions held not long ago on the gold medalist, those The carvings play a pivotal role, there are a lot of viewers were shocked by the exquisite carvings, and often take pictures with them to cheer. In the reception of the summit banquet, after the banquet guests also took away departmental works to continue to appreciate, see the creation of the beauty of the dishes on the psychological impact on the guests of how important it is to determine their appetite and eating psychology, and by this psychological decision to eat behavior, which in turn boils down to the overall understanding and evaluation of Chinese food culture.
Food carvings in the role of Chinese food
Food carvings are different from wood carvings, jade carvings, tooth carvings and other carvings, it is not purely handicrafts, not isolated for people to enjoy, but with the combination of dishes, so that people in the ornamental at the same time to eat, carvings of the application of the carvings is multi-faceted, through the carvings can be placed to reveal the theme, can set off the atmosphere of a good feast in the role of eating activities As follows:
A embellishment
In the high-grade art dishes, often using beautifully shaped flowers, animals, landscapes, utensils and other food carvings, for example: cold dish "natural scenery" in the mountain is made of ginger and other raw materials, and then hot dishes such as "hydrangea scallops "In the plate lion carving and hydrangea scallops clever combination, forming a perfect picture of a lion playing ball, thus sublimating the mood of the dish, improve the style of the dish, so that the dish rises to a tasty and delicious works of art.
B directly used in dish modeling to play a complementary role
Some fancy cold dishes and fancy hot dishes, such as "dragon and phoenix", "two dragons playing with pearls", "phoenix scallops "" Peacock fish fish "and so on without the help of food carving, with a simple knife to deal with raw materials, it would be difficult to make" dragon "head," Phoenix "head," "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head, "Peacock" head. "Peacock" head, the whole dish will lose integrity. Therefore, the complementary role of food carving in the dishes can not be ignored, the rational use of the dishes can be more vivid, more colorful, in general, the need to supplement the dishes, food carving is essential, less will destroy the image of the dishes, and the need to embellish the dishes do not necessarily have to food carving, with the icing on the cake to make the dishes, more distinctive, but such as not using, the dishes still have their own form, will not affect the integrity of the dishes.
C instead of fancy cold dishes for watching dishes
With carvings for watching dishes, in addition to beautifying the surface, but also expresses the respect for guests and reception specifications of the grand and noble outside, carvings are often large-scale group carvings reflecting the theme of the emergence of, such as, commonly used in wedding banquets, "Double Happiness" carvings to the heart-shaped double happiness with a pair of affectionate mandarin ducks. A pair of affectionate lovebirds and hibiscus flower pattern composition, symbolizing the newlywed couple's happy life, wings together, a hundred years of goodwill. "The dragon and phoenix symbolize the man and the phoenix symbolize the woman in ancient times, the dragon is strong and bold, and the phoenix is light and beautiful, with the dragon flying and phoenix dancing, it expresses the people's praise and expectation of a happy married life.
Re-such as birthday banquets, children, and the theme of the elderly and the differences, such as the "twentieth birthday" can be the theme of "Canglong called son", "Roc spreading its wings," Canglong Calling son, also known as the hope that the son of the dragon, carving to the clouds in the old dragon calling the sea in the small dragon, symbolizing the father hopes that his son will soon be able to become a successor to his father's career; the old man over the "seventieth birthday" can be "auspicious celebration of more than blessed" to the fairy child holding a pair of fish feet on the back of the Golden Treasure Fukushou pattern composed of Symbol of good luck, celebration, more happiness and longevity; state banquets commonly used some elegant, can reflect the national characteristics of the carvings, such as "panda play bamboo", "peacock to welcome the guests", etc.; friends commonly used "happy flower baskets ", "Three Friends" and so on.
D Used for feasts or competitions table decorations for bleachers
Such as the Chinese New Year, Christmas and other festivals, the use of large-scale foam or flower clay carving into decorations, decorating the table, adding a festive atmosphere. Competition carvings decorative countertops to make people feel fresh, bright effect, such as the Fifth National Culinary Competition Xuzhou Engineering Institute's "and see the phoenix perched on the cloud dragon" with flowers and mud composed of Xuzhou's scenic spots, Yunlong Mountain, Yunlong Lake, etc., coupled with large-scale fruit and vegetable carvings of the phoenix to stay in the Yunlong Mountain, Yunlong Lake, and perched on the Yunlong Mountain, Yunlong Lake, the beautiful scenery, which not only makes the whole countertop This not only makes the whole table has a dynamic beauty, but also for the table to increase the color of the god, but also reflects the beauty of Xuzhou scenery, Xuzhou foreign propaganda played a positive role, so that food carving in the competition is not only a contestant's skills can reflect the overall quality of his feelings for the people of his hometown.
E Used to decorate large-scale countertops
This is popular in recent years and is widely used by some star hotels to use the carving of the kind of way, such as breakfast buffet booths in restaurants, cold drinks reception, the company's opening, opening, reception, a variety of gatherings, a variety of food festivals, food fairs, and so on, most of the carvings with a special meaning of the carving of the display, carvings for the foam carvings, powdered sugar carvings, carvings, butter carvings, spray Sand sculpture, such as the company's grand opening ceremony reception selection of "eagle wings" "steed gallop", etc., to symbolize the cause of prosperity, the future is boundless. If next year's Spring Festival for the Year of the Rooster, the Spring Festival reception can be used "Golden Rooster crowing spring", "Fortune and good fortune", etc.; Christmas can be used "Santa Claus", "Christmas Angels Christmas can be "Santa Claus", "Christmas Angel", etc.; Mid-Autumn Festival with "Chang'e Runs to the Moon" and so on. According to different themes carving different works, can make the diner relaxed and happy, full of interest.
Carving application should closely follow the theme of the banquet, carefully conceived, designed to have an elegant mood of the picture, in line with nature, and the banquet theme complement each other, can add flowers, highlighting the natural beauty. Whether it is ancient, noble and elegant, or novel and chic, lightweight and flexible style, to determine the carvings should be consistent with the theme of the specific food and drink activities, the environmental atmosphere, specific dishes modeling and other styles. In the specific food activities how to decorate the carvings into the basic principles and rich carvings styling art used in specific occasions and appropriate use is the most important, only to continue to participate in the practice of carving and constantly summarize the carving skills to become more and more perfect, and achieve a higher level of technical and artistic realm.
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